Australian Membership of the International Ocean Discovery Program (ARC LIEF project administered by The Australian National University) (2016-2021)
Abstract
This proposal is for a 5-year membership of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), the world¿s largest collaborative research program in Earth and ocean sciences addressing intensively reviewed, international priorities. The Program conducts seagoing coring expeditions and monitoring of instrumented boreholes to study the history and current activity of the Earth, recorded in sediments and rocks below the seafloor. The Program¿s aims include understanding past global environments on multiple time scales, the deep biosphere, plate tectonics, occurrence and distribution of resources, and generation of hazards. Several multinational expeditions are scheduled and planned in our marine jurisdiction and within the Australasian region.
