Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) aims to solve global scientific problems by taking continuous core of rocks and sediments at a great variety of sites in the world’s oceans. IODP carries out deep scientific coring in all the world’s oceans using a variety of platforms, and provides ‘ground truthing’ of scientific theories that are based largely on remote sensing techniques. IODP’s key research areas are described in IODP’s ‘Initial Science Plan’ and are:

Deep biosphere and ocean floor
Environmental changes, processes and effects
Solid earth cycles and geodynamics.

IODP's 'Annual Program Plan' provides information each year regarding budgets, organisational structures, management and administration, publications, outreach activites including expedition operations. See the link above to view the current and past IODP Annual Program Plan.

Australia and New Zealand form the Australia-New Zealand IODP Consortium (ANZIC), and the two countries have access to all IODP activities including shipboard and post-cruise research, participation in planning committees and groups, and visits from outstanding scientific speakers. Both countries provide members of the ANZIC Governing Council, and of the ANZIC Science Committee. The Australian involvement is funded by the Australian Research Council, 14 universities, and three Government agencies (see link to ANZIC membership and funding).

Potential Australian IODP expedition applicants should check what expeditions are open on the International IODP web page, and can contact Neville.Exon@anu.edu.au for further information. For Applications visit this page

View ANZIC's research beyond 2013 - INVEST White Paper (created August 2009)

Click here to view our flyer (created September 2009)

Click here to view our large poster (created September 2009)

The Australian IODP Office is based at the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University

Coring vessel JOIDES Resolution.

and is the international and ANZIC contact point.

Dr Neville Exon

E: Neville.Exon@anu.edu.au;
T: +61 2 6125 5131
F: +61 2 6125 0756
W: http://people.rses.anu.edu.au/exon_n/

New Zealand’s partnership is led by GNS Science in Wellington

Dr Giuseppe Cortese

E: G.Cortese@gns.cri.nz
T: +64 4 570 4553
F: +64 4 570 4603
W: http://drill.gns.cri.nz/

Three research coring expeditions are scheduled in our region in 2008 and 2009: Canterbury Basin off New Zealand, Wilkes Land off Antarctica, and in the Great Barrier Reef. In addition scientific places could be available on expeditions in other regions of the world. All scheduled expeditions are listed in http://www.iodp.org/expeditions, where links to expedition details are to be found, and where calls for applications are made. However, the Australian IODP Office will inform those on its extensive email list of all opportunities as they arise. Descriptions of the many active proposals that have not been scheduled are available in http://www.iodp.org/active-proposals.

Website updated by: Sarah Howgego. Please direct all enquiries to: iodp.administrator@anu.edu.au