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This publication was prepared by the Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, as an account of work performed under the international Ocean Drilling Program, which is managed by Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc., under contract with the National Science Foundation. Funding for the program was provided by the following agencies:
Australia/Canada/Korea Consortium for Ocean Drilling, Department of Primary Industries and Energy (Australia), Department of Energy, Mines and Resources (Canada), and Korean Institute for Geology, Mining and Minerals.
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Federal Republic of Germany)
European Science Foundation Consortium for Ocean Drilling (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey)
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (France)
National Science Foundation (United States)
Natural Environment Research Council (United Kingdom)
University of Tokyo, Ocean Research Institute (Japan)
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.
[ Contents of the Semiannual Report, No. 2, June-November 1996 |
| Program Updates | New Initiatives | Project Summaries | Laboratory Working Groups |
| Panel Recommendations | Appendixes |
| Semiannual Report, No. 1, December-May 1996 |
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