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

Program AdministrationOcean Drilling Program Organizational StructureInternationalPartnersNationalScienceFoundationJointOceanographicInstitutions,Inc.Joint Oceanographic Institutionsfor Deep Earth SamplingScience Advisory StructureTexas A&MResearch FoundationShip Operationsand Science ServicesLamont-Doherty Earth Observatoryof Columbia UniversityWireline Servicesand Data BankContract and SubcontractStructure and RolesPrime Contractor (Program Manager)JOI, a nonprofit (501[c]3) oceanographic organization,was formed in 1976 by the U.S. memberinstitutions of JOIDES to facilitate scientificocean drilling and advance oceanographicresearch in general and to provide overallmanagement as the prime contractor to NSF.JOI was the prime contractor for ODP fromits inception in 1983. JOI’s responsibilities asProgram Manager also included managementor support of a number of Program-relatedactivities, including the JOIDES ScienceAdvisory Structure (SAS) for ODP through theJOIDES office.Additionally, under a separate contract, JOImanaged the U.S. Science Support Program(USSSP), which supported United Statesscientists’ participation in ODP and carriedout much of the Program’s education/outreachwork, such as the Distinguished Lecture Seriesand the Schlanger Fellowships.SubcontractorsJOI established subcontracts with Texas A&MUniversity (TAMU) through the Texas A&MResearch Foundation (TAMRF) to serve asScience Operator and with the BoreholeResearch Group (BRG) at Lamont-DohertyEarth Observatory (LDEO) of Columbia Universityto serve as Wireline Services Operatorand provide logging and other wireline services.LDEO also provided Site Survey DataBank (SSDB) services. Through a subcontractto the JOIDES office, JOI provided support forJOIDES activities.“The Ocean Drilling Programwas funded by theU.S. National Science Foundationand 22 international partners… .”ODP-TAMU and ODP-LDEO provided scientificand operational technical, engineering,and logging support and innovation involvingclose collaboration and subcontracts withindustry (e.g., active heave compensation, riginstrumentation system [RIS]), successfullymanaging a variety of long- and short-termsubcontracts, including Overseas Drilling Limited(ODL) for the lease of the JOIDES Resolutionand Schlumberger for logging services.In addition, ODP engaged in two-way collaborativerelationships with offshore oil andgas industrial and service groups supportingscientific drilling research and developmentcontracts in support of science drilling (e.g.,hammer drill-in casing) and technology trans-17