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Outreachcommunicated through an activeshipboard experience.• ODP Traveling Exhibit—Created at thebeginning of the Program, this portabledisplay was used for many years at eventsranging from port calls and individual ODPcountry member society meetings (bothacademic and industry related) to museumsand ODP international meetings. Thetraveling exhibit effectively brought ODPto large groups of people who might nototherwise have had the opportunity to visitthe ship or attend a conference. By 1993,the exhibit was redesigned to include amodel of the JOIDES Resolution reenteringa drillhole, a rotating core bit, and a“super core” representing several layers ofsediment and rock. Because this versionwas so successful, replicas were created andsent for use by several museums throughoutthe United States and overseas (e.g., PierMuseum in St. Petersburg, Florida; the NewEngland Science Museum in Worcester,Massachusetts; the Colburn Gem andMineral museum in Ashville, NorthCarolina; and the Museum of Wales, in theUnited Kingdom).The most popular ODP-related exhibit wascreated in 1997 and remains on displayat the Smithsonian Institution’s NationalMuseum of Natural History. It includes asection of deep-sea core recovered duringLeg 171B and a video that highlightsthe JOIDES Resolution and how core isrecovered. The Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T)boundary core is the centerpiece of amultimedia exhibit, “Blast from the Past,”which presents the hypothesis that anasteroid collision devastated terrestrial andmarine environments worldwide 65 millionyears ago.• ODP Web site—Web site content forODP began to appear in the mid-1990s,120,000Number of ODP-TAMU Web Site Visits: FY98–FY07100,00080,00060,00040,00020,0000Oct 97Feb 98Jun 98Oct 98Feb 99Jun 99Oct 99Feb 00Jun 00Oct 00Feb 01Jun 01Oct 01Feb 02Jun 02Oct 02Feb 03Jun 03Oct 03Feb 04Jun 04Oct 04Feb 05Jun 05Oct 05Feb 06Jun 06Oct 06Feb 07Jun 07October 1997 – September 2007Note: Statistics only cover ODP-TAMU Web site; no statistics were collected for the Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc., Web siteand statistics were not available for the ODP-LDEO Web site at time of report publication.65