Consortium for Ocean Leadership

Consortium for Ocean Leadership
purpose	geological and geophysical studies of the seabed, oceanographic research
Seat	since 2007 Washington, DC
founding	1976
place	Seattle , Washington
president	Jon White
Organization type	Non-profit organization
Website	oceanleadership.org

Joint Oceanographic Institutions ( JOI for short ) is the name of an association of American academic institutions founded in 1976 that join forces to research questions of marine geology, geophysics and oceanography . The research consortium with its headquarters in Seattle , Washington is a non-profit organization . In 2007 this organization became part of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership .

history

As early as 1964, four institutions joined forces - the “Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory” ( Columbia University ), the “Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science” ( University of Miami ), the “ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ” and the “Scripps Institution” of Oceanography “(University of California) - merged to form the Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES).

The aim was to investigate the global geological and geophysical structure of the sea floor through systematic scientific deep-sea drilling. For the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) a specially constructed drilling ship, the Glomar Challenger, was used.

In 1968, the University of Washington first joined the project and in 1975 the universities of Hawaii , Rhode Island , Oregon and Texas A&M were added. Due to the now very large and complex program, a new organization was needed to manage the project, so it was founded in 1976, which started its own operations in 1978.

By the time the Deep Sea Drilling Project was complete, the Glomar Challenger had covered more than 650,000 kilometers, drilled numerous holes and collected core samples. The program was expanded and the most modern drilling techniques were used. The falling oil prices made it possible to switch to commercial drilling ships. In 1983 the JOI was given full responsibility for the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP). In doing so, the National Science Foundation wanted to ensure that planning and implementation were tailored to the needs of the national and international scientific community.

In 1989 the "Council on Ocean Affairs" (COA) was created to allow a larger community to become a member. The main objective of the committee was to provide information about the many possibilities that a sound scientific understanding of the marine environment offers and, through annual meetings at which members of the council, representatives of Congress and the executive came together, about the state of the seas and the findings from the research or to discuss the financing of the projects.

In 1994, a consortium for oceanographic research and education, the "Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education" (CORE) was set up as a department of the JOI. The goals of the CORE were to acquire new funding from public, private and government institutions for marine research, to increase the quality of education in the field of marine sciences, and to improve collaboration between scientists, educators and non-governmental organizations.

Developments in 2004

It was only since 2004 that the long-term efforts to establish observation stations on the seabed and to be able to evaluate their data in real time came within reach financially and were implemented. For the first time, 20 seismic and hydrological observatories were anchored in the rocky subsurface, miles below the sea surface. Embedded in boreholes with a diameter of up to half a meter, the measuring instruments for recording movement, pressure and temperature provide optimal protection against ocean currents.

At first, the real-time evaluability of the seismometer data, for example, was not assured, as the material transfer of the data records had to be handled by remote-controlled diving robots. The US National Science Foundation promised to remedy this in the foreseeable future. There it was intended to help underwater seismology and other geosciences with modern wireless and optical technology in order to build a network of deep-sea observation stations, which was called "Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Networks" or ORION for short. The renowned Californian Scripps Institution of Oceanography was responsible for taking over the coordinating functions for this basic research project .

Consortium for Ocean Leadership

In 2007 the “Consortium for Ocean Leadership” was created from the merger of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions with the “Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education”. The new non-profit organization is headquartered in Washington, DC. It represents more than 100 of the leading public and private educational institutions for marine research and aquariums. The organization administers marine research and oversees educational programs in the fields of deep-sea scientific drilling, marine exploration and observation.

Journal publications

Proceedings of the ocean drilling program / Initial reports (CD-ROM with partly electronic versions of the respective print editions) ISSN 0884-5883 .
JOIDES journal (= Joint Oceanographic Institutions Deep Earth Sampling. ) JOIDES Off., Seattle WA, since 1997.

literature

Peter Müller, Hans von Storch : Computer modeling in atmospheric and oceanic sciences. building knowledge. Springer, Berlin a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-540-40478-3 .
Lars Nerger: Parallel filter algorithms for data assimilation in oceanography. In: Reports on polar and marine research. 487 (German: Parallel filter algorithms for data assimilation in oceanography. ) Kamloth, Bremen 2004, OCLC 56974581 .
Wolfgang Balzer: Marine research in the next decade. Memorandum. Wiley-VCH et al. a., Weinheim 2000, ISBN 3-527-27216-X .
Hans-Günter Gierloff-Emden: Deep drilling in the ocean floors - JODIES project with the Golmar Challenger . In: Textbook of General Geography . tape 5/1 : Geography of the sea - oceans and coasts. Part 1. Walter de Gruyter, 1990, ISBN 3-11-081769-1 , p. 205 ff . ( books.google.de ).

Web links

Individual evidence

^ International Ocean Discovery Program. - DSDP phase: Glomar Challenger. on iodp.tamu.edu
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d History. oceanleadership.org, February 13, 2009, accessed September 5, 2016 .
^ National Science Foundation Signs Cooperative Agreement with Joint Oceanographic Institution to Lead US Efforts in Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. National Science Foundation, accessed September 5, 2016 .
↑ Collaborators designing data, control architecture for new generation of ocean observatories. In: UW Today. washington.edu, September 30, 2004, accessed September 5, 2016 .

[1] International Ocean Discovery Program. - DSDP phase: Glomar Challenger. on iodp.tamu.edu

[History-2] History. oceanleadership.org, February 13, 2009, accessed September 5, 2016 .

[3] National Science Foundation Signs Cooperative Agreement with Joint Oceanographic Institution to Lead US Efforts in Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. National Science Foundation, accessed September 5, 2016 .

[4] Collaborators designing data, control architecture for new generation of ocean observatories. In: UW Today. washington.edu, September 30, 2004, accessed September 5, 2016 .