国際海洋科学掘削計画(IODP³)のScience Officeが決定

国際海洋科学掘削計画（IODP³）は、2024年に終了する現行の国際深海科学掘削計画を引き継ぎ、ECORDと日本の主導により2025年1月の開始を予定しています。2023年9月、新たに設置されるIODP³ Science Office（IODP³-SO）の任務を統括する所長を募集しました。外部委員会にて応募書類を慎重に評価した結果、Antony Morris氏（英国プリマス大学）と江口暢久氏（海洋研究開発機構）が、IODP³の最初の5年間（2025～2029年）のIODP³-SO 共同所長に任命されました。IODP³-SOはプリマス大学に置かれることになり、2024年5月に活動を開始する予定です。

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A New Science Office for The International Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP³)

The International Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP³) will begin in January 2025 and will succeed the current International Ocean Discovery Program which ends in 2024. IODP³ will be led jointly by ECORD and Japan as Core Members and involve collaboration and partnership with other non-platform-providing ocean drilling research entities or consortia as Associate and Temporary Members.
On 18 September 2023, ESSAC and J-DESC have opened a call for expressions of interest from senior scientists based in IODP³ Core Member nations to lead and host the new IODP³ Science Office (IODP³-SO). An external committee has now thoroughly evaluated the applications received and recommended the appointment of Antony Morris (University of Plymouth, UK) and Nobu Eguchi (JAMSTEC/MarE3, Japan) as joint Directors of the Science Office for the five first years of IODP³ (2025-2029). It will be located in the University of Plymouth.

The IODP³-SO will:

• Implement a programme-wide application portal for all aspects of IODP³ activities including calls for expedition participation, panel and board membership, training events, scholarships, and grants.
• develop and maintain a database management system for community-led drilling proposals and their evaluation, together with an associated site survey data bank, accessible to Science Evaluation Panel (SEP) members and other IODP³ entities.
• Provide logistical support for the SEP, the Mission-Specific Platform Facility Board (MSP-FB), and the Scientific Drilling Forum.
• Gather and analyze data (statistics and metrics) aimed at monitoring and improving equality, diversity, and inclusion within IODP³, and propose measures to further facilitate an inclusive culture in scientific ocean drilling.
• Design and maintain the IODP³ website that will act as the primary source of programmatic information for the international scientific ocean drilling research community.
  Develop and implement an online, open-access publication system for IODP³ expedition-related reports, including associated editorial and reviewing processes, and maintain an expedition-based bibliographic database.
  

The IODP³-SO will start its activities in May 2024 to provide a start-up period for establishing IT systems, workflows, and protocols prior to the start of IODP³ on 1 January 2025. During this period, the IODP³-SO will also interact with the current IODP Science Support Office to ensure a smooth transition between the two programmes.
A review of the IODP³-SO will be conducted in the first quarter of 2029 by the IODP³ Executive Board to guide a decision to either re-compete or renew the contract for a second five-year period (1 January 2030 – 31 December 2034).

Gilbert Camoin, Director of the ECORD Managing Agency,
on behalf of the ECORD-Japan Evaluation Committee