A recently developed CHIKYU 360 °app will take you on a complete virtual tour by clicking on the panoramic photographs to step aboard the Chikyu regardless your location on the globe. This iPad tour provides more opportunities to view Chikyu’s facilities and learn about this vessel by visiting 10 sections.
The Deep-Sea Scientific Drilling Vessel Chikyu, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), will embark on Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 343 Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST), from 1 April to 24 May 2012.
In response to growing concerns about our planet’s changing climate, rising global temperatures and sea levels, and increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), scientists are looking to the planet’s past to help predict its future. New results from a research expedition in Antarctic waters may provide critical clues to understanding one of the most dramatic periods of climatic change in Earth’s history – and a glimpse into what might lie far ahead in our climate’s future.
“Supervolcanoes” have been blamed for multiple mass extinctions in Earth’s history, but the cause of these massive eruptions remains poorly understood. To explore the origins of these seafloor giants, scientists drilled into a large, 145 million-year-old volcanic mountain chain lying underwater off the coast of Japan.
Close to 600 scientists from 21 countries met Sept. 23 – 25 2009 in Bremen, Germany, to outline major scientific targets for a new and ambitious ocean drilling research program. The scientific community envisions that this program will succeed the current Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), which ends in 2013. The outcome of the Bremen meeting will result in a new science plan, enabling scientific ocean drilling to take on a central role in environmental understanding and stewardship of our planet in the 21st century.
The Deep-sea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU successfully completed riser drilling operations on Aug. 31, for IODP Expedition 319, Stage 2 of the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE). The CHIKYU is operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) in partnership with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. Expedition 319 marks the first riser drilling in the history of the scientific ocean drilling program, and the first subseafloor observatory operations for NanTroSEIZE.
New research about what triggers earthquakes, authored by Michael Strasser of Bremen University, Germany, with colleagues from the USA, Japan, China, France, and Germany, will appear in the Aug. 16 2009 issue of Nature Geoscience (online version).
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), with industry partner AGR Drilling Services, has engineered an ultra-deepwater drilling technology for use by IODP drilling vessels in scientific research. Originally developed for shallow-water oil and gas exploration, the "riserless mud recovery" technology (RMR) holds great promise for scientists striving to reach the Earth's mantle.
For the first time in the history of scientific ocean drilling, researchers aboard the riser-equipped drilling vessel CHIKYU successfully drilled down to a depth of 1,603.7 meters beneath the sea floor into an earthquake-generating zone off the coast of Japan.
Step aboard the U.S.-supported scientific research vessel in Honolulu, HI, on May 6.
An international team of researchers working under the auspices of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program launched the New Jersey Shallow Shelf Expedition this morning in the early hours, taking advantage of the high tide to sail to the continental shelf just off the New Jersey shore. There, they will conduct coring operations to collect geological sediments that will inform them about Earth cycles that relate to sea level change, the mechanisms that force it, and that have impacted the geography of the shoreline over time.
Step aboard a scientific research vessel in Atlantic City, NJ, on April 29. The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) partners with the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) and the International Continental Scientific Ocean Drilling Program (ICDP) to present the drilling platform and science plan for the New Jersey Shallow Shelf Expedition, a climate-change research investigation that will drill and core the continental margin off the New Jersey coastline.
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), the world's largest ocean research program, has expanded its base of international and scientific support by welcoming Australia, India, and New Zealand as its newest Associate Members.
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) will conduct scientific ocean drilling operations aboard all three of its platforms in 2009, from March until December. This is the first time since IODP began operations in 2004 that all three platforms will operate at the same time.
Analysis of deep sea sediment cores has led to new data about the deep biosphere: 90 billion tons of microbial organisms live in the deep biosphere, a carbon mass that corresponds to about one-tenth of the carbon stored globally in tropical rainforests. Evidence from the sediment samples also shows that about 87 percent of the deep biosphere consists of Archaea, in stark contrast to previous reports that suggested that Bacteria dominate the subseafloor ecosystem.
An international team of scientists aboard the research drilling ship JOIDES Resolution has"”for the first time"”recovered black rocks known as gabbros from intact ocean crust. Supported by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), the scientists drilled through the volcanic rock that forms the Earth's crust to reach a fossil magma chamber lying 1.4 kilometers beneath the seafloor.
Scientists from nine nations have set sail for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Tahiti Sea Level Expedition, a research expedition initiated to investigate global sea level rise since the last glacial maximum, approximately 23,000 years ago.
Scientists from ten countries gathered over the last two weeks to analyze sediment cores taken from 430 meters beneath the Arctic Ocean seafloor. The cores gathered by the Arctic Coring Expedition science party are the first retrieved from the Arctic Ocean to reveal the past 55 million years of climate history.
For the first time, earth scientists can cite new evidence about the climatic evolution of the Arctic over the past ~55 million years. The Arctic Coring Expedition team will release news from their recent IODP expedition.
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