JOI Learning - Sponsors
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National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency
created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science;
to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure
the national defense…" With an annual budget of about
$5.5 billion, NSF is the funding source for approximately 20 percent
of all federally supported basic research conducted by America’s
colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer
science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal
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The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) is an international
research program that explores the history and structure of the
earth as recorded in seafloor sediments and rocks. IODP builds
upon the earlier successes of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP)
and the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP), which revolutionized our
view of Earth history and global processes through ocean basin
exploration. IODP represents the latest generation of these highly
successful scientific ocean-drilling initiatives and seeks to greatly
expand the reach of these previous programs by forming a collaborative
union between the United States, Japan, and the European Union,
each of whom will be responsible for providing drilling platforms
appropriate for achieving the scientific objectives outlined in
the IODP Initial Science Plan.
The Consortium for Ocean Leadership and its partners,
the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University (LDEO)
and Texas A&M University (TAMU), have been selected by NSF
to be the IODP United States Implementing Organization (IODP-USIO)
for the U.S. riserless vessel and related activities. The objectives of the USIO
are to provide leadership regarding the U.S. interests in IODP
as the challenges and demands of a multiplatform drilling program
present themselves. |
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