Funded March 2006 through February 2007

• Kate Moran (University of Rhode Island): Design options meeting for SCIMPI, a new innovative ocean drilling observatory system.
• Glenn Spinelli (New Mexico Tech): Site augmentation for Proposal 603A-Full2: predicting diagenetic reaction progress at the NanTroSEIZE reference sites.
• Mike Underwood (University of Missouri): Site augmentation for Proposal 603A-Full2: predicting diagenetic reaction progress at the NanTroSEIZE reference sites.
• Robert Harris (Oregon State University): Drilling site survey - the thermal environment associated with coring in the South Pacific Gyre: implications for life in subseafloor sediments.
• Roland von Huene (University of California, Davis): Reducing risk in IODP fault-zone drilling with high-resolution images an physical properties from a massive 3-D vertical seismic profile.
• Nathan Bangs (University of Texas at Austin): A design study for a CRISP 3-D seismic survey.

Funded March 2005 through February 2006

• Michael Whalen (University of Alaska-Fairbanks) and Sean Gulick (University of Texas at Austin): A sequence stratigraphy of the Chicxulub impact basin infill: integration of lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and seismic stratigraphy.
• Gregory F. Moore (University of Hawaii): Travel to specify a commercial contract for a 3D seismic reflection cruise in support of IODP drilling in the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone.
• Harold Tobin (New Mexico Tech): NanTroSEIZE observatory 2005 mini-workshop.
• Expedition 309/312 co-chief scientists (University of Michigan and several non-U.S.): Contribution to the DMT whole core scanner.
• Terry Edgar (U.S. Geological Survey): Eperic Seas small group meeting (IODP proposal 602-Full3).
• Gabe Filippelli (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis): Student participation on a site-survey cruise for IODP Proposal 626 (currently scheduled for Summer, 2007).
• Brian Taylor (University of Hawaii): International mini-workshop on IBM drilling to study continental crust formation.
• Steven Dorobeck (Texas A&M University): Workshop on climate-tectonic drilling in southeast Asia.
• Geoff Wheat (University of Alaska) and Katrina Edwards (WHOI): Small group meeting: CORK instrumentation designs associated with IODP proposal 677-Full (North Pond).

Funded March 2004 through February 2005

• Roland von Huene (Retired, USGS): Costa Rica Seismogenesis Project (CRISP) town meeting at the 2004 AGU Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
• Jim Channell (University of Florida): Travel funds to Rutgers University to examine reprocessed seismic data in support of site selection activities for Expedition 306.
• Liviu Glosan (WHOI): Participation in the ASSEMBLAGE (ASSEssMent of the  BLAck Sea sedimentary system) workshop in Varna, Bulgaria.
• Kier Becker (University of Miami): Participation of four U.S. attendees and two young researchers at the long-term borehole observatory mini-workshop for the NanTroSEIZE, in Yokosuka, Japan.
• Loren Kroenke (University of Hawaii): Participation on JAMSTEC cruise KR-05-01 aboard the R/V Kairei, collecting seismic reflection site survey data at the Ontong Java Plateau.
• Kathleen Marsaglia (University of California, Northridge): Continue development of atlas of ODP core photographs.
• Nathan Bangs (University of Texas at Austin): A 3-D Seismic imaging mini-workshop for Nankai CDP (603) site survey planning.
• Toshihiro Ike (University of Hawaii): Participation on a CDEX “cruise of opportunity” in the Kumano Basin of Japan, collecting high-resolution, single channel seismic data.

Funded March 2003 through February 2004

• Liviu Giosan (WHOI): Mini-workshop on quaternary sedimentation and climate history of the Black, Marmara, and Aegean seas.
• John Jaeger (University of Florida): Evaluating decadal-scale climate change and geomagnetic paleointensity records in continental shelf strata of the subarctic Pacific.
• Sean Gulick (University of Texas at Austin) and Peter Flemings (Pennsylvania State University): Site augmentation in the Nankai Trough: geological reconnaissance, seafloor fluid flow indicators, and shallow seafloor measurements using Kaiko ROV.

Funded March 2002 through February 2003

• Charles Paull (MBARI): Monterey Bay borehole test facility mini-workshop.
• Geoffrey Wheat (University of Alaska-Fairbanks): retrieval of data and continuous fluid samplers from the CORK at ODP Site 1200.
• Terry Edgar (U.S. Geological Survey): SE Asian eperic seas drilling project (Proposal #602) mini-workshop.
• Martin Fisk (Oregon State University): Deep biosphere proposal mini-workshop; a JOI/U.S. Science Support Program-sponsored planning workshop September 5-6, 2002; Bergen, Norway.
• Kate Moran (University of Rhode Island) and Gary Greene (Mass Landing): High resolution seismic reflection data for proposed sites in APL21.

Funded March 2001 through February 2002

• Andrew Fisher (University of California, Santa Cruz): Design of the next generation of coring tools for in-situ temperature measurements.
• Kathleen Marsaglia (Cal. State Univ., Northridge): Web/CD atlas of ODP core photographs
• Greg Moore (University of Hawaii): Participation in a workshop to develop an IODP proposal for riser drilling of the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone.
• Richard Jarrard (University of Utah): Refinement of LAS-based mineralogy technique for ODP Leg 199.
• Mitch Lyle (Boise State University): Building IESX databases for shipboard use on ODP Leg 199: Integrating digital seismic reflection data from site surveys with well logging and recovered sediment core.
• Bernard Coakley (Tulane University): Site augmentation in support of ODP proposal #533: seismic reflection data acquisition over the Lomonosov Ridge from the IB ODEN (partial funding).

Funded March 2000 through February 2001

• Bernard Coakley (Tulane University): Site augmentation in support of ODP proposal #533: Seismic reflection data acquisition over the Lomonosov Ridge from the IB ODEN (partial funding).
• Peter D. Clift (WHOI): Seismic stratigraphic study of the Murray Ridge.

Funded March 2000 through February 2001

• James Zachos (University of California, Santa Cruz): Early cenozoic extreme climates: The Walvis Ridge Transect
• Geoff Wheat (Univ. of Alaska-Fairbanks): Support for downhole instruments for Leg 195, site MAF-4B
• Peter deMenocal (Columbia University, LDEO): Site augmentation proposal 575-Full3, Gulf of Aden drilling: testing African climate-human evolution hyposthesis

Funded March 1999 through February 2000

• Eli Silver (University of California, Santa Cruz): data and scientific collaboration in Nicaragua: site augmentation support associated with proposed future drilling and MARGINs science.
• John Diebold (Columbia University, LDEO): Site 1108 seismic data augmentation.
• Peter Clift (WHOI): Himalayan uplift and sistory of the Indian monsoon recorded in the Indus Fan.
• Joris Gieskes (Scripps): In-situ sampling of pore fluids and gases with the "fisseler" water sampler - a site augmentation proposal for Legs 190/192.
• Maurice Tivey (WHOI): Geophysical analysis of new shipboard data to place constraints on the tectonic setting of Atlantis Bank and ODP Site 735B.
• Steve D'Hondt (University of Rhode Island): Chemical limits to microbial communities in deep-sea sediments.

Funded March 1998 through February, 1999

• Mike Fuller (University of Hawaii): Investigation of coring induced magnetic contamination in ODP APC cores.
• Geraldo Iturrino (Columbia University, LDEO): Assessment of velocity anisotropy and shear wave splitting in Hole 735B using the Dipole Shear Sonic Imaging tool (DSI).
• Lloyd D. Keigwin (WHOI): High resolution acoustic surveys of drill sites on the Bermuda Rise and Laurentian Fan.
• John Goff (University of Texas at Austin): Ultra-high resolution swath mapping, CHIRP sonar, bottom photography and grab sampling in support of a shallow water (jack-up drilling) extension of the mid-Atlantic sea level transect.

Funded March 1997 through February 1998

• Lewis Abrams (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) and Roger Larson (URI): Multichannel seismic profiling over Nauru Basin and Ontong Java Plateau on University of Tokyo cruise, KH-98-1.
• Alan Mix (Oregon State University): Leg 177 Deployment of OSU split core analysis track.
• Gerardo Iturrino (Columbia University, LDEO): Assessment of velocity anisotropy and shear wave splitting in Hole 735B using the Dipole Shear Sonic Imaging tool (DSI).
• Loren Kroenke (University of Hawaii): Participation in a Japanese site survey cruise to the Ontong Java Plateau: site augmentation proposal.
• Edward Winterer (Scripps): Participation in a Japanese site survey cruise in support of drilling on Ontong Java Plateau.
• Patricia Fryer (University of Hawaii): Site augmentation for ODP proposal 505, slab-derived fluids and geochemical mass balance in the Mariana Convergent Margin.
• Ralph Stephen (WHOI): VSP hydrophone for ODP Leg 176.
• Eugene Domack (Hamilton College): Site augmentation proposal in support of shipping costs of seismic equipment used in the Palmer Deep, Antarctica, during Leg 178.
• Paul Mann (University of Texas at Austin): U.S. participation in Japanese KH98-1 (Leg 1) cruise to the North Solomon Trench and Ontong Java Plateau: ODP site survey in support of collisional and fluid processes.

Funded March 1996 through February 1997

• Joris Gieskes (Scripps): High-temperature fluids in Hole 858G: A proposal for sampling during ODP Leg 169.
• Mike Coffin (University of Texas at Austin): U.S. participation in Australian Shipboard Program on the Kergeulen Plateau: ODP site survey in support of large igneous province objectives.
• Carlos Pirmez (Columbia University, LDEO): A vertical seismic profile for seismic calibration of the Mid-Atlantic Transect, ODP Leg 174A.
• Carlota Escutia (California State University, Hayward): A site augmentation proposal for the Antarctic Wilkes Land ODP drilling proposal.
• Ralph Stephen (WHOI): Geophysical surveys at the H20 observatory site.

Funded March 1995 through February 1996

• Carolyn Mutter (Columbia University, LDEO): West Woodlark Basin site augmentation proposal.
• David Chapman (University of Utah): "Hydrocell 95" participation in Canadian site survey to sedimented flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge (ODP Leg 168).
• Steven Holbrook/Ralph Stephen (WHOI): vertical seismic profiling of gas hydrate deposits during ODP Leg 163.
• James Austin (University of Texas at Austin): Safe Science Along the Mid-Atlantic Transect (MAT): Site-specific hazards surveying on the continental terrace offshore New Jersey in support of sea-level objectives.
• Gregor Eberli (University of Miami): Precise correlation of cores with high-resolution seismic data: request for a "check shot" survey (VSP) during ODP Leg 166.
• Alan Mix (Oregon State University): Deployment of the OSU digital reflectance spectroscopy tool on ODP Leg 167.
• Geoffrey Wheat (University of Alaska) and Hans Jannasch (MBARI): Long-term continuous sampling of fluids in instrumented borehole seals on the Juan de Fuca Ridge and flank.