GENERAL INFORMATION
- Title: Japan Trench Paleoseismology
- Expedition summary
- Sites: M0081 – M0095
- Dates
Offshore: 13 April 2021 – 1 June 2021
Onshore: 14 February – 15 March 2022
Personal Sampling Party (PSP): 15 – 30 November 2022 - Port: Departure from Yokosuka; mid cruise Port Call, Hachinohe; return to Yokosuka
- Co-Chief Scientists: Michael Strasser and Ken Ikehara
- Expedition Project Manager: Jeremy Everest
- Science Party
- Petrophysics Staff Scientist: Katharina Hochmuth
- MSP Outreach Officers: Ulrike Prange
- Drillships: Offshore R/V Kaimei; Onshore Science Party D/V Chikyu
- End of moratorium: 30 November 2023
- Post-cruise meeting: Anchorage, Alaska, July 2024
IODP Expedition 386 reached two new depth records in Scientific Ocean Drilling & Coring
- the deepest water site ever drilled and cored at the water depth of 8023 m
- the deepest sub-sea level sample recovered from 8060.74 mbsl (meters below sea level)
First major results of the IODP Expedition 386 are now published in Nature Communications (11 September 2023)
Scientific ocean drilling discovers dynamic carbon cycling in the ultra-deep-water Japan Trench. Read more »
EXPEDITION MAP and LOGO
REPORTS and PUBLICATIONS
Pre expedition
- Proposal #866
- Scientific Prospectus
- Sampling and Measurement Plan
Reports & Blogs
- Ship reports (daily and weekly)
IODP Expedition Daily Reports from ESO – sign up here »
Daily reports » - Expedition blog: https://expedition386.wordpress.com/
- Onshore Science Party
Weekly reports » - Information webinar (video)
Publications
- Preliminary Report
- IODP Proceedings
- Expedition-related citations
DATA and SAMPLES
OUTREACH and MEDIA
Photos & Videos
CONTACT US
Michael Strasser
Co-chief Scientist
Ken Ikehara
Co-chief Scientist
Katharina Hochmuth
Petrophysics Staff Scientist
