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 consist of five leading scientists from IODP countries. Members of the Science Board are nominated by the ECORD Council based on ESSAC recommendations to serve during 3 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
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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;
Expedition 347 Baltic Sea Paleoenvironment (D. Smith © ECORD/IODP).
- 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 |
| Dominique Weis (Vice-chair) | University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
| Gerald Dickens | Rice University, Houston TX, USA |
| Stephen Gallagher | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Karsten Gohl | AWI, Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Fumio Inagaki | JAMSTEC, Japan |
| Benoit Ildefonse (Alternate) | Géosciences Montpellier, France |
| EFB Members – ECORD Executive Bureau | |
| Magnus Friberg | ECORD Council Chair, Sweden |
| Michel Diament | ECORD Council Vice-Chair, France |
| Guido Lüniger | Council Core Group, Germany |
| Michael Webb | Council Core Group, UK |
| Anders Kjaer | Council Core Group, Denmark |
| Robert Gatliff | ESO Chair |
| Jan Behrmann | ESSAC Chair |
| Gilbert Camoin | EMA Director |
| Andrea Moscariello | ECORD-ILP Chair |
| IODP Liaisons | |
| SEP | David Mallinson, Ken Miller |
| EPSP | Barry Katz, Dieter Strack |
| NSF | Thomas Janecek |
| JR Facility Board (JRFB) | Anthony Koppers |
| JR Science Operator (JRSO) | Bradford Clement / Mitch Malone |
| USSSP | Carl Brenner |
| MEXT | Eisho Sato |
| Chikyu IODP Board (CIB) | Yoshiyuki Tatsumi |
| CDEX-JAMSTEC | Nobuhisa Eguchi |
| J-DESC | Hiroshi Nishi |
| 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 | |
| Marta Torres | Oregon State University, USA |
| Antonio Cattaneo | Ifremer, France |
