Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Florida State University

Oregon State University, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences

Pennsylvania State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Stanford University, School of Earth Sciences

Texas A&M University, College of Geosciences

University of California at San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

University of California, Santa Cruz

University of Florida

University of Hawaii, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology

University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography

University of South Florida, College of Marine Science

University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics

University of Washington, College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Australia/Canada/Chinese Taipei/Korea Consortium for Ocean Drilling: Department of Primary Industries and Energy (Australia), Natural Resources Canada, National Taiwan University in Taipei, and Korean Institute for Geology, Mining and Minerals

European Science Foundation Consortium for Ocean Drilling (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland)

Federal Republic of Germany, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe

France, Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers–Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INSU-CNRS)

Japan, University of Tokyo, Ocean Research Institute

People’s Republic of China, Marine High-Technology Bureau of the State Science and Technology Commission of the People’s Republic of China