This Semiannual Report of the Science Operator is part of an initiative to improve communications with the partners of the Ocean Drilling Program, from the member nations to individual scientists. If there is information you would like to read about in future issues, please contact us. Queries or comments can be sent via e-mail to:
Semiannual_report@ODP.TAMU.EDU
This report is also available electronically on the Internet in an Acrobat PDF format. The address is:
http://www-odp.tamu.edu/semiannual_report.html
The Ocean Drilling Program is funded by the Australia/Canada Consortium for the Ocean Drilling Program, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Federal Republic of Germany), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (France), Ocean Research Institute of the University of Tokyo (Japan), National Science Foundation (United States), Natural Environment Research Council (United Kingdom), and European Science Foundation Consortium for the Ocean Drilling Program (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey).
Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES), an international group of scientists, provides scientific planning and program advice. Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc., a nonprofit consortium of 10 major U.S. oceanographic institutions, manages the program.
Texas A&M University is the science operator. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University is responsible for downhole logging and the site survey data bank.