ODP Final Technical Report - Ocean Drilling Program - Texas A&M ...

ODP Final Technical Reportworld provided scientists the opportunity toexamine, describe, and photograph microfossilsof various geological ages and provenance(iodp.tamu.edu/curation/mrc/institutions.html).The Initial Reports and Scientific Results volumesof the Proceedings of the Ocean DrillingProgram were published to summarize thescientific and/or technical accomplishmentsof each cruise. This publication series includespredrilling geological and geophysical site surveys,leg objectives, planning documentation,core records, physical and geochemical measurements,logging data, core photographs,paleontology and petrological reports, scientificresearch results, and syntheses. Near theconclusion of the Program, all ODP printedpublications were digitized and made availableonline (www.odplegacy.org/samples_data/publications.html).The results of research based on ODP datahave been published openly in leading scientificjournals as well as in the Proceedings ofthe Ocean Drilling Program. The Ocean DrillingCitation Database (iodp.tamu.edu/publications/citations/database.html) servesas a comprehensive reference to all scientificdrilling publications. Covering researchspanning from 1969 to the present, it containsmore than 22,500 citations related tothe Ocean Drilling Program and its relatedprograms DSDP and the Integrated OceanDrilling Program (IODP). Two volumes ofabstract collections, ODP’s Greatest Hits,published in November 1997, and ODP Highlights,published in December 2004, illustratethe rich diversity of the international scientificcommunity’s accomplishments throughODP (www.odplegacy.org/science_results/highlights.html).ODP scientific data are housed in databasesthat are accessible online, allowingeasy retrieval for users worldwide. The coredata, which are housed in a relational databasecalled Janus, are available at iodp.tamu.edu/database/index.html and are also archivedby the National Geophysical Data Center inBoulder, Colorado. Janus contains 450 tablesof ODP’s marine geoscience data that werecollected on board the drillship JOIDES Resolution,including paleontological, lithostrati-1999 2000 2001Completed major modificationsto the ship’s capabilitiesduring dry dock,including upgrades of thescience infrastructure andinstallation of a permanentmicrobiology laboratory.Leg 186, Western Pacific:Using the longest casingstring yet suspendedfrom a deep-sea drillship,installed long-term oceanbottomseismometers andstrain meters in two holesoff Japan.Leg 189, TasmanianGateway: Confirmed theformation of the AntarcticCircumpolar Current33 million years agoand subsequent climaticcooling that ended the“hothouse” era.Leg 193, Manus Basin:Obtained results from apotential deep-sea minefor metallic resources thatled to the development ofnew guidelines for futureland-based mineralexploration.Legs 198 and 199,central Pacific Ocean:Documented abruptclimate change during thePaleocene/EoceneThermal Maximum(PETM).12