Scientific Ocean Drilling Programs at MARUM

A very characteristic part of MSPs are the Onshore Operation (ONO) following the offshore drilling phase as the cores are usually not opened/split at sea. The ONO is the real science operation, not merely a sample party.
The Onshore Operation takes place after the offshore operations are completed. The cores are transferred to the Bremen Core Repository (BCR) located at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany. The entire invited expedition science party will attend at the ONO and stay for its full duration. The ONO normally takes place within 3-4 months of the end of the offshore operations. The duration of the OSP is in part dependent on the quantity of core collected. At the ONO, cores are split and scientists have their first opportunity to study the samples in more detail, as they have access to the full laboratory facilities of the BCR.

Please indicate your equipment and consumables needs for the Onshore Operation already in your sample request, especially if it is not standard equipment/procedure already listed in the core flow.
All expedition scientists stay at the Onshore Operation in Bremen until all measurements, reporting, and sampling has been completed. The end of the Onshore Operation is the equivalent of coming off one of the bigger IODP drillships.

For overview reports on the Onshore Opertion (aka Onshore Science Parties; OSP) for past IODP Expeditions see the ECORD Newsletter:

• for IODP Exp. 302 (Arctic Coring Expedition, ACEX), cf. ECORD Newsletter #4 (p. 2-3);
• for IODP Exp. 310 (Tahiti Sea Level), cf. ECORD Newsletter #7 (p. 3-4).
• for IODP Exp. 313 (New Jersey Shallow Shelf), cf. ECORD Newsletter #14 (p. 3-7).
• for IODP Exp. 325 (Great Barrier Reef Environmental Changes), cf. ECORD Newsletter #15 (p. 6-7).
• for IODP Exp. 347 (Baltic Sea Paleoenvironment), cf. ECORD Newsletter #22 (p. 8-9)
• for IODP Exp. 357 (Atlantis Massif), cf. ECORD Newsletter #25 (p.8)
• for IODP Exp. 364 (Chicxulub Impact Crater), cf. ECORD Newsletter #27 (p. 6-10)
• for IODP Exp. 381 (Corinth Active Rift Development), cf. ECORD Newsletter #30 (p. 6-8)
• for IODP Exp. 386 (Japan Trench Paleoseismology), cf. ECORD Newsletter #37 and #38 (p. 16 each)
• for IODP Exp. 389 (Hawaiian Drowned Reefs), cf. ECORD Newsletter #40 (p. 19)

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