The ECORD Facility Board (EFB) is the key planning forum for the mission-specific platform (MSP) expeditions operated by ECORD as part of IODP. More information about the mandate of the EFB can be found in the ECORD Memorandum of Understanding
The ECORD Facility Board meets once a year (>> reports).
EFB Membership
The ECORD Facilty Board includes a Science Board and the ECORD Executive Bureau.
The Science Board consists of six leading scientists from IODP countries. Members of the Science Board are nominated by the ECORD Council based on ESSAC recommendations to serve during three years.
The Executive Bureau is composed of the Council Core group, the Chairs of ESO, ESSAC, ECORD-ILP and the Director of EMA.
EFB Tasks and Interactions
Expedition 347 Baltic Sea Paleoenvironment (D. Smith © ECORD/IODP).
- Determining the operations schedule for mission-specific platform expeditions to implement high-priority science proposals forwarded by SEP and based upon science priorities, optimal geographic distribution and costs;
- Approving the expedition section of the Annual ECORD Plan, including MSP operations schedule, data management, publications, core curation and engineering and scientific technical development
- Advising on long-term planning of MSP expeditions.
The EFB liaises with all major entities of IODP including IODP Forum, SEP, funding agencies and Platform Providers, and Program Member Offices.
| EFB Members – Science Board |
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| Gilles Lericolais (Chair) | Ifremer, France |
| Gretchen Früh-Green | ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Stephen Gallagher | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Fumio Inagaki | JAMSTEC, Japan |
| Ellen Thomas | Yale University, New Haven CT, USA |
| Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben (Vice-Chair) | AWI, Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Benoit Ildefonse (Alternate) | Géosciences Montpellier, France |
| EFB Members – ECORD Executive Bureau | |
| Guido Lüniger | ECORD Council Chair, Germany |
| Michael Webb | ECORD Council Vice-Chair, UK |
| Eric Humler | ECORD Council Core Group, France |
| Marco Sacchi | ECORD Council Core Group, Italy |
| Bernard Westerop | ECORD Council Core Group, Netherlands |
| Antony Morris | ESSAC Chair |
| Gilbert Camoin | EMA Director |
| IODP Liaisons | |
| SEP | Sean Gulick, Lisa McNeill |
| EPSP | Barry Katz, Dieter Strack |
| NSF | Thomas Janecek / Jamie Allan |
| JR Facility Board (JRFB) | Anthony Koppers |
| JR Science Operator (JRSO) | Bradford Clement / Mitch Malone |
| USSSP | Carl Brenner |
| MEXT | Tatsuya Watanabe |
| Chikyu IODP Board (CIB) | Yoshiyuki Tatsumi |
| CDEX-JAMSTEC | Nobuhisa Eguchi |
| J-DESC | Harue Masuda |
| IODP Forum | James A. Austin |
| IODP Science Support Office | Holly Given |
| CAPES (Brazil) | Marcio de Castro Silva Filho |
| ANZIC (Australia-New Zealand) | Leanne Armand |
| KIGAM (South Korea) | Se Won Chang |
| IODP China | Shouting Tuo |
| MoES (India) / IODP India | Brijesh Bansal / Dhananjai Pandey |
| EFB Past Members (Science Board) |
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| Antonio Cattaneo | Ifremer, France |
| Gerald Dickens | Rice University, Houston TX, USA |
| Karsten Gohl | AWI, Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Marta Torres | Oregon State University, USA |
| Dominique Weis | University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
