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

Executive Summarygraphic, chemical, physical, sedimentological,and geophysical data for ocean sedimentsand hard rocks. Logging data are available atiodp.ldeo.columbia.edu/DATA. The log databasecontains standard downhole logs (e.g.,geophysical data and resistivity images), logsfrom specialty tools (e.g., borehole televiewer,geochemical, multichannel sonic, loggingwhile-drilling[LWD], and temperature tools),and processed and original wireline and LWDdata for DSDP and ODP.OutreachWorking within a limited budget, Programstaff raised ODP visibility and informed thescientific community and general publicof important discoveries that heightenedunderstanding of Earth’s history and scientificocean drilling. This was accomplishedthrough a variety of creative outreach activitiesand products, including documentaries,newspaper and magazine articles, pressreleases, exhibit booths at science conferences,and port call events. Public relationsand outreach products and activities for ODPare documented on the ODP Legacy Web site(www.odplegacy.org/outreach).The ODP Legacy Web site (www.odplegacy.org) was launched in September 2006 in recognitionof the importance of preserving andcompiling the scientific, technological, andexperiential legacy of ODP. This Web site wasdeveloped to encourage interest, awareness,and understanding of ODP as a program; preservethe data, documents, and publicationsproduced during the Program; and highlightthe scientific and technical accomplishmentsof the Program. Users can access scientificdata generated during operations on boardthe JOIDES Resolution and later shore-basedactivities via various links to on the Website. Although the site is not intended as acomprehensive historical archive, it containsdownloadable documents that cover a widespectrum of Program information, from laboratoryand instrument manuals to all of theProgram’s scientific publications, journals,and educational materials. The ODP LegacyWeb site also includes some data and publicationsrelated to DSDP, the ground-breakingprecursor to ODP.2002 2003Leg 201, EasternEquatorial Pacific andPeru Margin: Discoveredevidence of vast, activedeep biosphere in oceansediments and crust.Leg 204, Hydrate Ridge:Multiple gas hydratecores recovered under insitu pressure, first use ofLWD tools for gas hydratestudies.Legs 207 and 208, Demerara Rise and Walvis Ridge:Recovered samples from the Cretaceous/Paleogene(K/P) boundary and the PETM that provided evidence ofrapid global climate and ocean circulation changes thatled to periods of plant and animal mass extinctions.Leg 210, NewfoundlandMargin: Concluded ODPoperations and begandemobilization of theJOIDES Resolution inGalveston, Texas.13