ALT Map of Antarctica and Southern Ocean surface current speed overlaid with drilling sites. Numbers note DSDP or ODP legs, or IODP Expedition numbers. Image credit: Alfred Wegener Institute

ALT Photo of a group of people in a workshop

ALT Close up photo of a couple of participants discussing topics of iodp

ALT Photo from IODP Expedition 318. Photo is a panoramic view of the Antarctic coast with a dark blue ocean in the foreground and ice sheets in the background. Caption: View of the Antarctic coast from Site U1357. Credit Etiienne Claassen, IODP/TAMU.

ALT Photo from IODP Expedition 374. Photo shows a dark blue ocean with a field of sea ice in the distance. Caption: After several weeks of ice-free operations in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, winds from the east push a tongue of sea ice toward the vessel, forcing us to temporarily abandon Site U1524. Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO.

ALT Photo from IODP Expedition 379. Photo shows a dark blue ocean with an iceberg in the background and a breaching humpback whale in the foreground. Caption: Breaching humpback whale with an iceberg. Credit: Reed Scherer & IODP.

ALT Photo from IODP Expedition 382. Photo shows a dark blue ocean with an iceberg in the center with a chinstrap penguin on it. Caption: A chinstrap penguin contemplates a leap from a growler iceberg into the icy Scotia Sea. Credit: Thomas Ronge & IODP.

ALT JOIDES Resolution during Expedition 379. Photo credit: Phil Christie, SIEM Offshore, and IODP JRSO.

ALT Nicolette Lawler (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO) leads the way with the first core of Expedition 379.

ALT Sedimentologists working with the first core of Expedition 379.