Geosciences

1. NSF/GEO structure Geosciences Directorate: Atmosphere Ocean Earth Divisions: Integrated Programs Section Marine Geosciences Section Oceans Section Sections: Programs: ODP MGG

2. Personnel - OCE Tim Killeen, Assistant Director Geosciences Directorate: Julie Morris, Division Director of Ocean Sciences Division: Ocean Rodey Batiza, Section Head Marine Geosciences Section Section: • Jamie Allan Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative (COTR) on IODP contracts • Kevin Mandernack (Colorado School of Mines), ODP Grants Program • Deborah Smith (WHOI), USSSP, ODP Grants Program • John Walters SODV Project Officer • Michelle Arsenault Science Assistant Program: MG&G ODP

3. Personnel - OCE Tim Killeen, Assistant Director Geosciences Directorate: Julie Morris, Division Director of Ocean Sciences Division: Ocean Rodey Batiza, Section Head Marine Geosciences Section Section: • Bil Haq Sedimentary geology • Barbara Ransom Geochemistry • Candace Major Paleoceanography • Rick Carlson Geophysics, geodynamics • Erik Hankin replaces MichaelWelin as Science Assistant Program: MG&G ODP

4. What does NSF-ODP fund? • USSSP • Investigations of potential drilling regions, especially by means of regional geological and geophysical field studies. • The feasibility and initial development of downhole instruments and techniques. • Downhole geophysical and geochemical experiments. • Research proposals that meet the scientific objectives of specific drilling expeditions. Grants resulting from these Expedition Objective Research (EOR) proposals will be for significant support to address the research objectives of the drilling expedition and are intended to begin in the period between the co-chief approval of the expedition sampling plan and the end of the sample moratorium period.

5. Other ODP Contributions • Fund small supplements, educational workshops, Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) • Have numerous co-funding opportunities with other divisions and directorates within NSF • Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) and EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) • Pay for ship time and Ocean Bottom Seismometer (OBS) costs associated with ODP funded cruises • Contribute to OBSIP facilities

6. Other ODP Contributions 2 • Contribute to MARGINS program: Office and workshops • MARGINS projects supported from 2008: • DeShon (U of Memphis) Imaging 3D seismic velocity and attenuation heterogeneity along the seismogenic zone of Costa Rica and Nicaragua • Dixon (RSMAS) and Schwartz (UCSC) Col Research: A plate boundary observatory on the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica • Dixon (RSMAS) Col Research: Acquisition of GPS and seismic equipment for Phase 2 of a plate boundary observatory, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica; share with EAR. • Speigelman (LDEO) and van Keken (U Michigan) Advanced models of magma migration at convergent margins

7. Recent ODP Projects • November 2008 panel • Bangs/McIntosh (UTIG) and Silver (UCSC) Collaborative Research: A 3D seismic investigation of the transition to seismogenic behavior along the southern Costa Rica subduction zone • Becker (RSMAS) and Cowan (Hawaii) EAGER, Collaborative Research: The Basalt-Hosted Biosphere Observatory at North Pond, Advanced Instrumentation for Transformative Science • May 2009 panel • Tryon (SIO) Muddy Waters: Deep-seated fluid flow processes, seismic faulting and mud volcanism in a mature collision zone • MG&G May 2009 panel • Korenaga (Yale), Diebold, (LDEO), Sager (TAMU), Collaborative Research: Geophysical Constraints on Mechanisms of Ocean Plateau Formation from Shatsky Rise, Northwest Pacific

8. Recent MG&G Projects with ODP Relevance • Severmann (Rutgers) What are the sources and mechanisms of iron enrichments during oceanic anoxic event 2? - Evidence from iron stable isotopes • Martin (U Florida) Pb Isotopes in the Southern Ocean: A Study of Pb Systematics and Continental Weathering During the Eocene/Oligocene Transition • Katz (Rensselaer) and Cramer (Theiss Research) Collaborative Research: Reorganization of deepwater circulation in response to the opening of Southern Ocean passages in the middle/late Eocene (40-33 Ma) • Lisiecki (UCSB) Climate forcing of Atlantic overturning over the last 3 Myr • Fedorov (Yale) and Ravelo (UCSC) Collaborative Research: Reconstructing the Meridional SST Gradient and Climate Conditions of the Early Pliocene

9. Examples of successful EORs • Reviewers are sent the link to the NSF/ODP web site and cover letters requesting the reviews contain the same text. The criteria for funding ODP proposals are discussed at panel. • John (Wyoming) and Gee (SIO) crustal accretion Hole U1309D Atlantis Masif west flank of MAR; 2006 • Darby (Old Dominion U. Research Foundation) Onset and history of perennial Arctic Sea Ice; 2006 • Moore (UMichigan) and Thomas (TAMU) History/timescale of paleo change in Arctic Ocean; 2006 • Moran (URI) Cenozoic Sea Ice in Arctic Ocean; 2007 • Lund (USC) EOR Tahiti Chronostratigraphy; 2007 • Saffer (Penn State), Screaton (Florida) and Underwood (Missouri) NanTroSEIZE 314, 315, 316 Lab studies; 2008 • What we expect for EORs: PIs to demonstrate within the proposal that there is both national and international coordination/collaboration.

10. IODP Member Status • MOUs have recently been signed with Australia/New Zealand and India • In the process of signing MOUs with China and Korea