The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) was a multinational effort to explore and study the composition and structure of the Earth's oceanic basins, running from 1985 to 2004. ODP was the successor to the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) initiated in 1968 by the United States.

Ocean drilling expeditions, spanning five decades and taking place during successive ocean drilling programmes, have transformed the understanding of our planet.

Oct 2, 2018 · Over a half-century, scientific ocean drilling has proved the theory of plate tectonics, created the field of paleoceanography and redefined how we view life on Earth by revealing an enormous...

A long running international collaboration in scientific ocean drilling has transformed human understanding of our planet, addressing fundamental questions about Earth's dynamic history, processes, and structure.

IODP concluded in 2024 after eleven successful years of enabling the study of the subseafloor. Please visit the Expedition Schedule to learn more about IODP's past expeditions, and the Planning Updates page for information about subsequent scientific ocean drilling programs.

Dec 6, 2024 · Ocean drilling provides a unique window into the link between solid rock geochemical cycles and surface reservoirs, to address questions from how continental crust is formed to the interplay of...

The International Ocean Drilling Programme is an international marine research collaboration that explores Earth’s history and dynamics using ocean-going research platforms to recover data recorded in seafloor sediments and rocks and to monitor subseafloor environments.

Sep 26, 2018 · Over a half-century, scientific ocean drilling has proved the theory of plate tectonics, created the field of paleoceanography and redefined how we view life on Earth by revealing an enormous...

Research supported by scientific ocean drilling has fundamentally transformed our understanding of the planet, with key contributions to the discovery and theory of plate tectonics; the formation and destruction of ocean crust; the reconstruction of extreme greenhouse and icehouse climates during the past 100 million years; the identification of...

In 1968, an international group of oceanographic institutions and the U.S. National Science Foundation created a program of ocean drilling. Its initial goal was to test Tuzo Wilson's hypothesis of plate tectonics.