Forwarded, FYI: If you have no interest in ocean drilling, you need read no further. For those of you with some interest in ODP (and the upcoming IODP), here are some highlights from the USSAC meeting a few weeks ago (source: a Scripps researcher) .............Susan Berteaux
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Susan S. Berteaux, Associate Director & Head of Public and Instructional Services
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library URL: scilib.ucsd.edu/sio
University of California, San Diego phone: (858) 822-0534
9500 Gilman Dr., Dept. 0219 fax: (858) 534-5269
La Jolla, CA 92093-0219 email: sberteaux@ucsd.edu
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1. Workshop on Successor USSP Program - June 11 to 14
A major task of USSAC in the coming year is to outline the principles for
support of US participants in IODP activities - ie what will be required to
foster and sustain the full range of research and educational activities
necessary for successful U.S. participation in IODP. This workshop will
consider a number of aspects, but we have identified four primary topics
which are listed below with a few examples of the types of activities to be
considered.
1) Program development and pre-drilling activities
e.g. workshops, links to national and internation programs, site survey
2) Platform participation activities
e.g. definition of participation for different platforms, support
level for participation
3) Post-platform activities
e.g. leg-based research funding (to produce a product similar to
the IR volumes),
objective-based research funding, long term monitoring functions
4) Education and publication activities
e.g. education activities at different levels (k-8, highschool,
etc), student fellowships
An announcement for this workshop will be published soon with details of
meeting location and support for attendance.
2. NSF proposals to support field programs leading to drilling in IODP
Although ODP is winding down and the final legs for the Joides Resolution
have now been scheduled, there is a continuing need for proposal pressure
related to drilling in IODP. Paul Dauphin (NSF) emphasized that they are
open for business in terms of entertaining proposals for field programs
that will lead to drilling (site surveys) in IODP.
For further information on the status of IODP visit http://www.iodp.org/
3. Letters of interest/proposals sought from JOI institutions
As you have heard already from John Orcutt, the JOI BOG has drafted a
letter to JOI insitutions, calling for interest from the members of JOI,
Inc. in providing services for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
(IODP). This initial step is to decide which of the members will act as
contractors for various aspects of the program and to facilitate
preparation of a proposal by JOI in response to an NSF call for proposals
expected later this year.
4. Schlanger fellowships
Three fellowships were awarded at most recent USSAC meeting, making a total
of seven fellowships for the fiscal year just completed:
Heather Benway, Oregon State University ODP Legs 202, 138, & 165; one-year
shorebased fellowship "Reconstructing pycnocline intensity in the Gulf of
Panama to monitor low-latitude response to Neogene closure of the Panama
Isthmus"
Benjamin Cramer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey DSDP/ODP Legs
22, 113, 143, 171B; one-year shorebased fellowship "Evolution of a warm
climate: Long-term paleoceanographic trends and short-term orbital forcing
of climate in the late Paleocene-early Eocene" (Shorebased)
Michael Hutnak, University of California, Santa Cruz ODP Leg 205; one-year
shorebased fellowship "The thermal and hydrothermal state of subducting
lithosphere: Costa Rica margin"
Matthew Makowski, MIT/WHOI Joint Program ODP Legs 112 & 201; one-year
shorebased fellowship "Characteristics of Aeloian Organic matter in a
terrestrial-to-marine depositional transect and impliations for
millennial-scale tropical climate change"
Maria Prokopenko, University of Southern California ODP Leg 201; one-year
shorebased fellowship "Fractionation of nitrogen isotopes during early
diagenesis in the sediments of Peru Margin"
Cara Santelli, MIT/WHOI Joint Program ODP Leg 205; one-year shorebased
fellowship
"The role of microorganisms in alteration of basaltic glass in deep oceanic
subsurface environments"
Matthew Schmidt, University of California, Davis ODP Legs 138 & 165;
one-year shorebased fellowship "Temperature and hydrological changes in the
Western Caribbean and the tropical Pacific during the last 750 kyr"
* The last deadline for shipboard participation based fellowships is 4/15/02.
** Note that USSSP budgets include funds for 5 fellowships in fiscal year
18 (March 2002 - Feb 2003) and 4 fellowships in fiscal year 19 (March 2003
- Feb 2004). Additional information on past fellowship recipients and
application procedures may be found at
http://www.joi-odp.org/USSSP/Fellowship.
5. Port Call - September, 2002
Due to a recent change in the operations schedule, the Resolution will now
have a port call in San Diego prior to Leg 205 (Sept 6-9).
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Jeff Gee
Mailcode 0220
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
La Jolla, CA 92093-0220
tel: (858) 534-4707 fax: (858) 534-0784
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