Program: International Ocean Discovery Program

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IODP

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The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) is an international marine research collaboration that explores Earth's history and dynamics using ocean-going research platforms to recover data recorded in seafloor sediments and rocks and to monitor subseafloor environments. IODP depends on facilities funded by three platform providers with financial contributions from five additional partner agencies. Together, these entities represent 26 nations whose scientists are selected to staff IODP research expeditions conducted throughout the world's oceans.

IODP expeditions are developed from hypothesis-driven science proposals aligned with the program's science plan Illuminating Earth's Past, Present, and Future. The science plan identifies 14 challenge questions in the four areas of climate change, deep life, planetary dynamics, and geohazards.

IODP's three platform providers include:

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
The European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD)

More information on IODP, including the Science Plan and Policies/Procedures, can be found on their website at http://www.iodp.org/program-documents.

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Projects

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Determination of deep biosphere cell activity and identity utilizing the state of the art low-biomass, single cell techniques developed at JAMSTEC in their class 10,000 clean room (Deep biosphere cell activity)
An In-Depth analysis of the subvent biosphere within Okinawa Backarc Basin (IODP 331, Iheya North Hydrothermal Field) sediments (Subvent_Biosphere_Sediments)
Characterization of microbial communities and carbon metabolisms within interstitial fluids of the Nankai Trough (Nankai Trough Enrichments)
Collaborative Research: Characterization of Microbial Transformations in Basement Fluids, from Genes to Geochemical Cycling (North Pond Microbes)
Collaborative Research: Delineating The Microbial Diversity and Cross-domain Interactions in The Uncharted Subseafloor Lower Crust Using Meta-omics and Culturing Approaches (Subseafloor Lower Crust Microbiology)
Establishing The Magnitude Of Sea-Surface Acidification During The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (OA_Paleocene-Eocene)
Functional gene diversity and expression in methane-hydrate bearing deep subsurface sediments (Methane-Hydrate Sediment Omics)
Genomic analyses and microbial cultivations in unexplored sub-seafloor ridge flank and continental margin environments (Subseafloor Microbial Ecology)
IODP Expedition 336 Objective Research: The deep biosphere of young and oxic oceanic crust (North Pond basalts)
Primary productivity in young, oxic oceanic crust: rates of activity and autotrophic groups in subsurface and seafloor-exposed basalts from North Pond, Mid-Atlantic Ridge (Basalt carbon fixation)
Quantifying the contribution of the deep biosphere in the marine sediment carbon cycle using deep-sea sediment cores from the Baltic Sea (IODP-347 Microbial Quantification)
World-wide exploration of microbial eukaryote diversity and activity in the marine subsurface (Microbial Euk Div Mar Subsurface)

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