EXPEDITION 406 NEW ENGLAND SHELF HYDROGEOLOGY
Expedition 406 will help to determine the origin and volume of offshore freshwater in the subseafloor of New England shelf, and will lead to a better understanding of this hydrogeological phenomenon worldwide.
- Dates: postponed to 2025 (TBC)
- Expedition Project Manager: Jeremy Everest (lead), Margaret Stewart
- Port: tbd
- Drillship: tbd
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EXPEDITION 389 HAWAIIAN DROWNED REEFS
Expedition 389 will address several questions related to sea-level in the central Pacific over the last 500 kyr, as well as the response of coral reef systems to abrupt changes.
- Scheduled for: 31 Aug – 31 Oct 2023
- Expedition Project Manager: Hannah Grant (lead) and Margaret Stewart
- Port: Barbers Point Harbor, Hawaii
- Drillship: MMA Valour, equipped with the Benthic Portable Remotely Operated Drill (PROD5)
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EXPEDITION 386 JAPAN TRENCH PALEOSEISMOLOGY
This expedition will recover trench-fill sedimentary successions (Upper Pleistocene-to-Holocene) along an axis-parallel transect of the 7-8km deep Japan Trench to reconstruct a long history of giant earthquakes off NE Japan.
- Scheduled for 2021: Offshore – 13 April – 1 June 2021.
Onshore – 14 February – 15 March 2022 - Expedition Project Manager: Jeremy Everest
- Port: Yokosuka
- Drillships: Offshore R/V Kaimei; Onshore Science Party D/V Chikyu
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EXPEDITION 381 CORINTH ACTIVE RIFT DEVELOPMENT
Expedition 381 addresses several questions related to fault and rift structural evolution as well as surface processes in an active continental rift.
- 23 October-18 December 2017 (offshore) & 31 January-28 February 2018 (Onshore Science Party)
- Expedition Project Manager: Gareth Carter (lead) and Jeremy Everest
- Port: Corinth (Greece)
- Drillship: Fugro Synergy
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EXPEDITION 364 CHICXULUB K-PG IMPACT CRATER
Expedition 364 addresses questions related to large impact crater formation on Earth and other planets, and the effects of large impacts on the Earth’s environment and ecology.
- 5 April-31 May 2016 (offshore) & 21 September-15 October 2016 (Onshore Science Party)
- Expedition Project Manager: Claire Mellett – Sophie Green and Gareth Carter
- Port: Progreso, Mexico
- Drillship: L/B Myrtle
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EXPEDITION 357 ATLANTIS MASSIF SERPENTINIZATION AND LIFE
Expedition 357 addresses questions about serpentinization of rocks from the Earth’s mantle and its consequences for heat flux, geochemical cycles and microbial activity.
- 26 October–11 December 2015 (offshore) & 20 January-5 February 2016 (Onshore Science Party)
- Expedition Project Manager: Sophie Green, Carol Cotterill (offshore EPM).
- Port: Southampton, UK.
- Drillship: RRS James Cook carrying the BGS Rockdrill 2 and the MARUM-MeBo seafloor drills.
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EXPEDITION 377 ARCTIC OCEAN PALEOCEANOGRAPHY (ArcOP)
Expedition 377 ArcOP, based on Proposal 708, aims at recovering a continuous stratigraphic record of the long-term Cenozoic climate history of the central Arctic Ocean.
- Scheduled for: Postponed
- Expedition Project Managers: Jeremy Everest, Hannah Grant, Margaret Stewart
- Port: tbd
- Drillship: Dina Polaris
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EXPEDITION 373 ANTARCTIC CENOZOIC PALEOCLIMATE
Expedition 373 addresses questions about climatic changes – from greenhouse to icehouse (Eocene to Oligocene) – of the Antarctica as well as timing and environmental conditions of the ice sheets during the Oligocene.
- Scheduled for: tbd
- Expedition Project Manager: tbc
- Port: tbd
- Drillship: tbd
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