AUSTRALIAN MEMBERSHIP OF THE INTERNATION OCEAN DISCOVERY PROGRAM

Grant number: LE160100067 | Funding period: 2016 - 2020

Completed

Abstract

This project is for a 5-year membership of the International Ocean Discovery Program, the world’s largest collaborative research program in earth and ocean sciences addressing international priorities. The program conducts seagoing coring expeditions and monitoring of instrumented boreholes to study the history and current activity of the Earth, recorded in sediments and rocks below the seafloor. The program’s aims include understanding past global environments on multiple time scales, the deep biosphere, plate tectonics, occurrence and distribution of resources, and generation of hazards. Several multinational expeditions are scheduled and planned in our marine jurisdiction and within the A..

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A Cenozoic Great Barrier Reef on Australia's North West shelf

Jackson C McCaffrey, Malcolm W Wallace, Stephen J Gallagher

2020-01-01

The Great Barrier Reef of Australia is the largest modern coral reef system on Earth. However, a similar-sized barrier reef (~2000..

Paleoceanographic evolution of the Japan Sea over the last 460 kyr - A coccolithophore perspective

Mariem Saavedra-Pellitero, Karl-Heinz Baumann, Stephen John Gallagher, Takuya Sagawa, Ryuji Tada

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Changes in the intensity of the influx of the Tsushima Warm Current (TWC) in the south-central part of the Japan Sea (JS), or East..

Australian Summer Monsoon variability in the past 14,000 years revealed by IODP Expedition 356 sediments

Takeshige Ishiwa, Yusuke Yokoyama, Lars Reuning, Cecilia M McHugh, David De Vleeschouwer, Stephen J Gallagher

2019-02-13

The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 356 Site U1461 cored a Miocene to Holocene sedimentary sequence in the..

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