Scientific Prospectuses

International Ocean Discovery Program

ISSN: 2332-1385

Implemented by the JOIDES Resolution Science Operator (JRSO)

Expedition 403: Eastern Fram Strait Paleo-Archive (FRAME) (pub. May 2023)
Expedition 402: Tyrrhenian Continent–Ocean Transition: Tyrrhenian Magmatism and Mantle Exhumation (TIME) (pub. March 2023)
Expedition 401: Mediterranean–Atlantic Gateway Exchange (pub. April 2023)
Expedition 400: NW Greenland Glaciated Margin: Cenozoic evolution of the northern Greenland Ice Sheet exposed by transect drilling in northeast Baffin Bay (pub. September 2022)
Expedition 397T: Transit and Return to Walvis Ridge Hotspot (pub. July 2022)
Expedition 399: Building Blocks of Life, Atlantis Massif (pub. June 2022)
Expedition 398: Hellenic Arc Volcanic Field: Volcanism and tectonics in an island arc rift environment (VolTecArc): Christiana-Santorini-Kolumbo marine volcanic field, Greece (pub. March 2022)
Expedition 397: Iberian Margin Paleoclimate (pub. February 2022)
Expedition 396: Mid-Norwegian Continental Margin Magmatism (pub. February 2021)
Expedition 384: Engineering Testing (pub. July 2020)
Expedition 395: Reykjanes Mantle Convection and Climate: Mantle Dynamics, Paleoceanography and Climate Evolution in the North Atlantic Ocean (pub. June 2020)

Expedition 395 Addendum (pub. April 2023)

Expedition 391: Walvis Ridge Hotspot: drilling Walvis Ridge, Southeast Atlantic Ocean, to test models of ridge-hotspot interaction, isotopic zonation, and the hotspot reference frame (pub. April 2020)

Expedition 391 Addendum (pub. February 2021)

Expedition 392: Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate: drilling the Agulhas Plateau and Transkei Basin to reconstruct the Cretaceous–Paleogene tectonic and climatic evolution of the Southern Ocean basin (pub. April 2020)
Expedition 390/393: The South Atlantic Transect: a multidisciplinary IODP investigation along a crustal flow line across the western flank of the southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (pub. February 2020)

Expedition 390/393 Addendum (pub. May 2022)

Expedition 388: Equatorial Atlantic Gateway: origin, evolution, and paleoenvironment of the Equatorial Atlantic Gateway (pub. July 2019)
Expedition 387: Amazon Margin (pub. July 2019)
Expedition 385T: Panama Basin Crustal Architecture and Deep Biosphere Revisiting Holes 504B and 896A (pub. March 2019)
Expedition 385: Guaymas Basin Tectonics and Biosphere (pub. November 2018)
Expedition 383: Dynamics of Pacific Antarctic Circumpolar Current (pub. August 2018)

Expedition 383 Addendum (pub. October 2018)

Expedition 382: Iceberg Alley and South Falkland Slope Ice and Ocean Dynamics (pub. May 2018)
Expedition 379: Amundsen Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History (pub. December 2017)

Expedition 379 Addendum (pub. November 2018)

Expedition 378: South Pacific Paleogene Climate (pub. January 2018)

Expedition 378 Addendum (pub. August 2019)

Expedition 376: Brothers Arc Flux (pub. June 2017)
Expedition 375: Hikurangi Subduction Margin (pub. January 2017)
Expedition 374: Ross Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History (pub. September 2017)

Expedition 374 Addendum (pub. September 2017)

Expedition 372: Creeping Gas Hydrate Slides and LWD for Hikurangi Subduction Margin (pub. February 2017)
Expedition 371 : Tasman Frontier Subduction Initiation and Paleogene Climate (pub. December 2016)
Expedition 369: Australia Cretaceous Climate and Tectonics: Tectonic, paleoclimate, and paleoceanographic history of the Mentelle Basin and Naturaliste Plateau at southern high latitudes during the Cretaceous (pub. September 2016)
Expedition 367/368: South China Sea Rifted Margin: Testing hypotheses for lithosphere thinning during continental breakup, drilling at the South China Searifted margin (pub. April 2016)

Expedition 367/368 Addendum (pub. November 2016)

Expedition 366: Mariana serpentinite mud volcanism: geochemical, tectonic, and biological processes (pub. April 2016)
Expedition 363: Western Pacific Warm Pool: Neogene and Quaternary records of Western Pacific Warm Pool paleoceanography (pub. February 2016)
Expedition 362: The Sumatra Subduction Zone: The role of input materials in shallow seismogenic slip and forearc plateau development (pub. April 2016)

Expedition 362 Addendum (pub. July 2016)

Expedition 361: South African Climates (Agulhas LGM Density Profile) (pub. August 2015)
Expedition 360: Southwest Indian Ridge Lower Crust and Moho: The nature of the lower crust and Moho at slower spreading ridges (SloMo-Leg 1) (pub. February 2015)
Expedition 359: Sea Level, Currents, and Monsoon Evolution in the Indian Ocean (pub. November 2014)

Expedition 359 Addendum (pub. April 2015)

Expedition 356: Reefs, Oceans, and Climate: A 5 million year history of the Indonesian Throughflow, Australian monsoon, and subsidence on the northwest shelf of Australia (pub. August 2014)
Expedition 355: Arabian Sea Monsoon: Deep sea drilling in the Arabian Sea: constraining tectonic-monsoon interactions in South Asia (pub. June 2014)
Expedition 354: Bengal Fan: Neogene and late Paleogene record of Himalayan orogeny and climate: a transect across the Middle Bengal Fan (pub. February 2014)
Expedition 353: iMonsoon: Indian monsoon rainfall in the core convective region (pub. June 2014)

Implemented by the U.S. Implementing Organization (USIO)

Mission-Specific Platform Expeditions (ESO)

Expedition 389: Hawaiian Drowned Reefs (pub. August 2023)
Expedition 377: Arctic Ocean Paleoceanography (ArcOP) (pub. August 2021)
Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology (pub. October 2019)
Expedition 381: Corinth Active Rift Development (pub. October 2017)
Expedition 364: Chicxulub: drilling the K-Pg impact crater (pub. March 2016)
Expedition 357: Atlantis Massif Serpentinization and Life: Microbiological, alteration, and tectono-magmatic processes in young mafic and ultramafic seafloor (pub. June 2015)

Chikyu Expeditions (MarE3)

Expedition 405: Tracking Tsunamigenic Slip Across the Japan Trench (JTRACK) (pub. July 2023)

Expedition 405 Addendum (pub. July 2024)

Expedition 380: NanTroSEIZE Stage 3: Frontal Thrust Long-Term Borehole Monitoring System (LTBMS) (pub. August 2017)
Expedition 370: T-Limit of the Deep Biosphere off Muroto (T-Limit): Deciphering factors that constrain the extent of the deep biosphere in a subduction zone (pub. May 2016)
Expedition 365: NanTroSEIZE Stage 3: Shallow Megasplay Long-Term Borehole Monitoring System (LTBMS) (pub. December 2015)
Expedition 358: NanTroSEIZE Plate Boundary Deep Riser 4: Nankai seismogenic/slow slip megathrust (pub. July 2018)

Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

ISSN: 1932-9415

Implemented by the U.S. Implementing Organization (USIO)

Expedition 346: Asian Monsoon: Onset and evolution of millennial-scale variability of Asian monsoon and its possible relation with Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau uplift (pub. January 2013)

Expedition 346 Addendum (pub. August 2013)

Expedition 345: Hess Deep Plutonic Crust: Exploring the plutonic crust at a fast-spreading ridge: new drilling at Hess Deep (pub. March 2012)
Expedition 344: Costa Rica Seismogenesis Project, Program A Stage 2 (CRISP-A2) (pub. May 2012)
Expedition 342: Paleogene Newfoundland Sediment Drifts (pub. November 2011)
Expedition 341S: Simple Cabled Instrument for Measuring Parameters In situ (SCIMPI) and Hole 858G CORK replacement (pub. February 2013)
Expedition 341: Southern Alaska Margin: Interactions of tectonics, climate, and sedimentation (pub. August 2011)

Expedition 341 Addendum (pub. July 2012)

Expedition 340: Lesser Antilles Volcanism and Landslides: Drilling volcanic landslides deposits and volcanoclastic sediments in the Lesser Antilles arc: implications for hazard assessment and long-term magmatic evolution of the arc (pub. July 2011)
Expedition 340T: Atlantis Massif Oceanic Core Complex: Velocity, porosity, and impedance contrasts within the domal core of Atlantis Massif: faults and hydration of lithosphere during core complex evolution (pub. August 2011)
Expedition 339: Mediterranean Outflow: Environmental significance of the Mediterranean Outflow Water and its global implications (pub. May 2011)

Expedition 339 Addendum (pub. September 2011)

Expedition 336: Mid-Atlantic Ridge Flank Microbiology: Initiation of long-term coupled microbiological, geochemical, and hydrological experimentation within the seafloor at North Pond, western flank of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (pub. October 2010)
Expedition 335: Superfast Spreading Rate Crust 4 (pub. November 2010)
Expedition 334: Costa Rica Seismogenesis Project (CRISP): sampling and quantifying input to the seismogenic zone and fluid output (pub. August 2010)
Expedition 330: Louisville Seamount Trail: Implications for geodynamic mantle flow models and the geochemical evolution of primary hotspots (pub. April 2010)
Expedition 329: South Pacific Gyre Microbiology (pub. April 2010)
Expedition 328: Cascadia Subduction Zone ACORK Observatory (pub. March 2010)
Expedition 327: Juan de Fuca Ridge-Flank Hydrogeology (pub. March 2010)
Expedition 318: Wilkes Land Glacial History (pub. May 2008)
Expedition 317: Canterbury Basin Sea Level (pub. April 2008)
Expedition 324: Shatsky Rise Formation (pub. March 2009)
Expedition 323: Bering Sea Paleoceanography (pub. May 2009)
Expedition 321T: Juan de Fuca hydrogeology (pub. May 2009)
Expeditions 320/321: Pacific Equatorial Age Transect (pub. August 2008)

Expedition 320/321 Addendum (pub. December 2008)

Expedition 311: Cascadia Margin Gas Hydrates (pub. April 2005)

Expedition 311 Addendum (pub. July 2005)

Expeditions 309/312: Superfast Spreading Rate Crust (pub. June 2005)
Expedition 308: Gulf of Mexico Hydrogeology (pub. April 2005)
Expedition 307: Modern Carbonate Mounds: Porcupine Drilling (pub. March 2005)
Expeditions 304/305: Oceanic Core Complex Formation, Atlantis Massif (pub. August 2004)
Expeditions 303/306: North Atlantic Climate (pub. September 2004)

Expeditions 303 and 306 Addendum (pub. February 2005)

Expedition 301T: Costa Rica Hydrogeology (pub. August 2004)
Expedition 301: Juan de Fuca Hydrogeology (pub. May 2004)

Implemented by the European Science Operator (ESO)

Expedition 347: Baltic Sea Basin Paleoenvironment: paleoenvironmental evolution of the Baltic Sea Basin through the last glacial cycle (pub. October 2012)
Expedition 325: Great Barrier Reef environmental changes (pub. August 2009)
Expedition 313: New Jersey shallow shelf: Shallow-water drilling of the New Jersey continental shelf: global sea level and architecture of passive margin sediments (pub. April 2009)
Expedition 310: Tahiti Sea Level (pub. September 2005)
Expedition 302: Arctic Coring Expedition (pub. July 2004)

Implemented by Japan’s Institute for Marine-Earth Exploration and Engineering (MarE3)

Expedition 348: NanTroSEIZE Stage 3: NanTroSEIZE plate boundary deep riser 3 (pub. September 2013)
Expedition 343: Japan Trench Fast Earthquake Drilling Project (JFAST) (pub. February 2012)
Expedition 338: NanTroSEIZE Stage 3: NanTroSEIZE plate boundary deep riser 2 (pub. April 2012)
Expedition 337: Deep Coalbed Biosphere off Shimokita: Microbial processes and hydrocarbon system associated with deeply buried coalbed in the ocean (pub. November 2010)

Expedition 337 Addendum (pub. November 2011)

Expedition 333: NanTroSEIZE Stage 2: subduction inputs 2 and heat flow (pub. November 2010)
Expedition 332: NanTroSEIZE Stage 2: riserless observatory (pub. October 2010)
Expedition 331: Deep Hot Biosphere (pub. September 2010)
Expedition 326: NanTroSEIZE Stage 3: plate boundary deep riser: top hole engineering (pub. August 2010)
Expedition 322: NanTroSEIZE Stage 2: subduction inputs (pub. May 2009)
Expedition 319: NanTroSEIZE Stage 2: riser/riserless observatory (pub. April 2009)
Expedition 316: NanTroSEIZE – Shallow Megasplay and Frontal Thrusts (pub. July 2007)

Expedition 316 Addendum (pub. November 2007)

Expedition 315: NanTroSEIZE – Megasplay Riser Pilot (pub. August 2007)

Expedition 315 Addendum (pub. November 2007)

Expedition 314: NanTroSEIZE – LWD Transect (pub. July 2007)
NanTroSEIZE Stage 1 (pub. August 2006)