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ANZIC membership and funding

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Australia and New Zealand have come together to form the Australia-New Zealand IODP Consortium (ANZIC), in which Australia pays 25% of a full IODP Membership and New Zealand 5% of a membership. Both countries provide members of the ANZIC Governing Council, and of the ANZIC Science Committee. The Australian IODP Office, based at the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University, is the international IODP contact point. New Zealand’s partnership is led by Geological and Nuclear Sciences in Wellington; their internal IODP arrangements are described at [drilling web site under development]

Australian IODP partners:

• Australian National University*
• CSIRO Petroleum Division and Exploration & Mining Division*
• Macquarie University*
• James Cook University*
• University of Adelaide
• Curtin University of Technology
• University of Melbourne
• Monash University
• University of Newcastle
• University of Queensland
• Queensland University of Technology
• University of Sydney
• University of Tasmania
• University of Western Australia
• University of Wollongong
• Australian Institute of Marine Science
• Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
• MARGO (Marine Geoscience Office) which is the marine geoscience peak body in ARC terms.

*Larger financial contributors. [Note that other universities and government agencies are welcome to join at any time.

ANZIC Funding:

The Australian IODP partners have agreed to provide at least $20,000 or $25,000 per year to the consortium, for the present five-year term of IODP (2008-2013). Their total outlay for the five years is $3.09 million. The Australian Research Council (ARC) will provide $1.55 million per year = $7.4 million over 5 years. The total of $A10.49 million will be used to fund the annual membership fee of $US1.4 million, to support travel inside and outside Australia, and to fund the Australian IODP Office. New Zealand pays $US280,000 direct to IODP to fund its annual membership fee, and also covers its own costs.