European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling

Set up under the authority of the ECORD Council, EMA manages the participation of ECORD members in IODP. The Director of the EMA is the official contact point for ECORD in all relationships with the Central Management Office (CMO) of IODP, IODP-MI, and the Lead Agencies (NSF and MEXT).

:: EMA Office

EMA is administered by the INSU-CNRS, a French national institute that has a central role in the co-ordination of national and international programmes and large infrastructure projects in solid earth, ocean and atmospheric sciences. EMA is staffed with a Director assisted by an Executive Secretary (central office) and a Scientific Officer (web site and publications office). The EMA central office is located in the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG-Paris) and the EMA web site and publications office is hosted in the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG-CNRS) in Nancy.

Catherine Mével	Director ECORD-Net Coordinator, ERICON AB and DS3F WP Leader IWG+ Co-Chair	New address: IPGP - Bureau 362 1 rue Jussieu 75238 Paris cedex 05 E-mail Tel: +33 183 95 76 57

Amine (Mohammed) Benchikh	Executive Secretary EC-funded programmes (ECORD-Net, ERICON AB, DS3F)	New address: IPGP - Bureau 359 1 rue Jussieu 75238 Paris cedex 05 E-mail Tel: +33 183 95 76 54 Fax:

Patricia Maruéjol	Scientific Officer Outreach and ECORD web coordination	E-mail Tel: +33 383 59 42 18 Fax: +33 383 51 17 98

:: EMA Tasks and Interactions:

with ECORD

with IODP

Communication

:: with ECORD:
EMA, via CNRS-INSU, pools the funds from all the European participants and may accept funds from all the non-European members of ECORD. EMA prepares and signs the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ECORD members and issued requests for a timely contribution of annual funds.

EMA administers the financial contributions from ECORD members made in support of IODP:

on advice from IODP-MI, EMA negotiates an annual contract with and transfers funds to the ECORD Science Operator (ESO). ESO has the role of planning and executing the mission-specific platform (MSP) contribution to the IODP science plan.
on advice from ECORD Council and in negotiation with ESSAC, EMA provides funds to support the ESSAC Chair.

EMA provides the ECORD Council with an ECORD programme plan for approval and a budget for each upcoming fiscal year, consistent with the IODP program and budget.

In co-ordination with ESSAC, EMA is responsible for maintaining the scientific and administrative memory of ECORD'S role in IODP.

The EMA Director is invited to attend the ECORD Council meetings.

with IODP:
On behalf of ECORD members, EMA signs contracts and the Member Memorandum (referred also as the IODP Memorandum) with MEXT (Japan), NSF (USA) and other IODP funding agencies, on implementation of IODP.
EMA provides a single ECORD contribution to IODP co-mingled funds to cover the Science Operations Costs (SOCS) of IODP.
EMA represents ECORD in all the relevant IODP committees, panels and task forces.
On the basis of an operational plan from IODP-MI for MSP operation, EMA negotiates a budget in a given year. EMA ensures that the Science Operations Costs (SOCs) are provided from IODP co-mingled funds to the ESO for MSP operations.

:: Communication:

In collaboration with ESO and ESSAC, EMA coordinates ECORD communication such as outreach/public information, and to a lesser extent, educational activities related to IODP in Europe:

informing the scientific community and the general public about the scientific results and technological advances in IODP via the ECORD web site (see ECORD RSS) and Information database, Publications, see ECORD Newsletter published every 6 months, Reports and Exhibition Booths, MSP Expedition Publications, and press releases published by ESO. This activity is co-ordinated with IODP-MI and focused on the specific role of European scientists in the program, also includes co-ordinated press releases of MSP expeditions in collaboration with ESO, and participation of ECORD scientists in IODP,
assisting ESSAC in organising ECORD summer schools and scholarships, ECORD workshops and conferences such as the Distinguished Lecturer Programme, Pre-INVEST 'Drilling for the Future' April 2009, ECORD Teachers Workshop at EGU 2007.

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