To date, ESO has completed eight scientific expeditions of mission-specific platforms (MSPs): five expeditions in the first phase of IODP (2003 to 2013) – Exp 302 Arctic Coring (ACEX), Exp 310 Tahiti Sea Level, Exp 313 New Jersey Shallow Shelf, Exp 325 Great Barrier Reef Environmental Changes and Exp 347 Baltic Sea Paleoenvironment, and three expeditions in the second phase of IODP (2014-2023) – Exp 357 Atlantis Massif Serpentinization and Life, Exp 364 Chicxulub K-Pg Impact Crater Expedition and Exp 381 Corinth Active Rift Development.
ESO is preparing Expedition 389 Hawaiian Drowned Reefs to start in September-October 2019, and scoping of MSP expeditions to the Japan Trench (Exp 386) and to the polar regions, in the Arctic (Exp 377 ArcOP) and in the Antarctic (Exp 373).
MSP Schedule
- Expedition 373 Antarctic Cenozoic Paleoclimate – scheduled for 2023
Co-chief Scientists: Trevor Williams and Carlota Escutia - Expedition 377 Arctic Ocean Paleoceanography (ArcOP) – scheduled for 2021
Co-chief Scientists: Rüdiger Stein and Kristen St. John - Expedition 386 Japan Trench Paleoseismology – scheduled for 2020
Lead Proponent: Michael Strasser - Expedition 389 Hawaiian Drowned Reefs – postponed until further notice
Co-chief Scientists: Jody Webster and Christina Ravelo - Expedition 381 Corinth Active Rift Development – 22 October-18 December 2017 (from/to Corinth, Greece)
Co-chief Scientists: Lisa McNeill and Donna Shillington - Expedition 364 Chicxulub K-Pg Impact Crater – 5 April-31 May 2016 (from/to Progreso, Mexico)
Co-chief Scientists: Joanna Morgan and Sean Gulick - Expedition 357 Atlantis Massif Serpentinization and Life Expedition – 26 October-11 December 2015 (from/to Southampton, UK)
Co-chief Scientists: Gretchen Früh-Green and Beth Orcutt - Expedition 347 Baltic Sea Paleoenvironment – 12 September-1 November 2013 (from/to Kiel, Germany)
Co-chief Scientists: Thomas Andrén and Bo Barker Jörgensen - Expedition 325 Great Barrier Reef Environmental Changes – 11 February-6 April 2006 (from/to Townsville, Australia)
Co-chief Scientists: Jody Webster and Yusuke Yokoyama - Expedition 313 New Jersey Shallow Shelf – 30 April-17 July 2009 (from/to Atlantic City, NJ, USA)
Co-chief Scientists: Gregory Mountain and Jean-Noël Proust - Expedition 310 Tahiti Sea Level – 6 October-21 November 2005 (from/to Papeete, Tahiti, France)
Co-chief Scientists: Gilbert Camoin and Yasufumi Iryu - Expedition 302 Arctic Coring (ACEX) – 7 August-15 September 2004 (from/to Tromsö, Norway)
Co-chief Scientists: Jan Backman and Kate Moran
