New Technologies to Explore the Floors: The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

Gerry is a Research Scientist in the Borehole Research Group. He spent two months during the summer of 2004 aboard the JOIDES Resolution in the first Expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP.) His talk will describe this new 10-year, multi-million dollar international project.

     With Gerry aboard the JOIDES Resolution for this historic cruise was Dr. Jon Rice, a middle school educator who served as the first IODP "Teacher at Sea."  Jon created a journal describing his two months aboard the ship. He also prepared a set of classroom activities about the various shipboard laboratories which are now undergoing final development by the IODP and will soon be posted. Jon was to have joined us for this program, but his travel plans were cancelled by a passing hurricane. However, he did join us for the March 2005 program.  Jon spent much of the summer of 2004 as Teacher-at-Sea aboard the "JOIDES Resolution" studying the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the North Pacific. Jon's daily journal entries from the IODP Leg 301 Journal can be found at http://iodp.ldeo.columbia.edu/EDU/TAS/

    The Borehole Research Group (BRG) uses downhole geophysical measurements in a wide variety of scientific investigations including sea level variations, paleoceanography, flow of fluids through fractured rock, and thermal and mechanical properties of the ocean's igneous crust and the properties of natural gas hydrates. BRG is also actively involved in the development of new tools and techniques for acquiring and analyzing downhole data. Dr. David Goldberg serves as Director of the BRG.

Some previous education projects and other useful resources may be accessed through http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/BRG/EDUCATION/PROJECTS/index.html.