IODP

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 twenty-three nations whose scientists are selected to staff IODP research expeditions conducted throughout the world's oceans. Scientist activities are managed by the IODP Program Member Offices.

SCIENCE PLAN 2013-2023

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

6 August–6 October 2021: Mid-Norwegian Continental Margin Magmatism - International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 396
Co-chief scientists for the cruise are Christian Berndt (GEOMAR) and Sverre Planke (VBER)

The cruise aims to understand how the great volcanic province of the Northeast Atlantic was formed, and how volcanism led to global warming 56 million years ago.

VBER staff is involved in proposal and operation - see article in Expronews.com and in geoforskning.no