Transcript SPC Report (Filippelli) - Consortium for Ocean Leadership

Science Planning Committee
(SPC)
Report to USAC
February 2010
Role of Science Planning Committee
• Chartered by the Science Advisory Structure Executive Committee
(SASEC) as primary SAS committee for planning the IODP scientific
drilling expedition schedule
• SASEC retains really long-term planning outlook
• SPC focuses on annual process for review and ranking mature IODP
proposals forwarded by SSEP, approximately one year in advance of
preparation of IODP Annual Program Plans
• SPC also recommends annual engineering plan in support of science
plan, after advice from EDP
• All other SAS panels report through SPC, so SPC also synthesizes
SAS advice for SASEC + IODP-MI
SPC Activities since July USAC
1. SPC Meeting August 25-27, Kiel, Germany*
3. Alternative approach to proposal discussion*
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SPC Meeting, Kiel
SPC Motion 0908-13: Two options were discussed for
prioritizing the Superfast Spreading Crust (Proposal 552Full5) + Costa Rica Seismogenesis Project (CRISP)
Phase A (Proposal 537A-Full5) slot in the FY2011 JOIDES
Resolution schedule. SPC prefers…
Superfast and CRISP A are both objectives. If conditions
at Superfast warrant, a decision tree will decide whether
an increased proportion of time would be spent at
Superfast, or a decreased proportion of time.
Drilling plan for two expeditions under review at OTF
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SPC Meeting, Kiel
SPC Consensus 0908-12: The SPC will consider
evaluating, on a case by case basis, possibilities for
combining expedition objectives and/or staffing and crew,
and/or for implementing flexibility in the length of
expeditions.
To aid in future scheduling considerations, the SPC asks
IODP-MI to contact proponents of proposals currently
residing at SPC and at OTF (but not scheduled) to
prioritize their scientific objectives in light of potentially
reduced implementation and operational times.
Done, with proponents of proposals being forwarded to
SPC for March meeting
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3. Alternative Approaches to Proposal Discussion
1. Current format of proposal review and discussions:
a. Can overlap too much with thorough SSEP
discussions of science
b. Disconnects somewhat current proposals from
those at OTF
c. Limits opportunities to discuss proposals in a
global perspective
Streamline science discussion process by providing
template for presentations; normal watchdogs
Add presentation and discussion section of all OTF
and SPC proposals by Theme, and by Regions
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4. SPC Business March 2010
1. Discuss and rank proposals advancing from SSEP;
consider for forwarding to OTF
2. Discuss status of proposals at OTF
3. Discuss approach to June 2010 guidance for
generalized operations plan for remaining years of
IODP program
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4. SPC Business March 2010 Proposals
Deep Biosphere and Subseafloor Ocean
547-Full4 Oceanic Subsurface Biosphere
553-Full2 Cascadia Margin Hydrates
555-Full3 Cretan Margin
557-Full2 Storegga Slide Gas Hydrates
589-Full3 Gulf of Mexico Overpressure
633-Full2 Costa Rica Mud Mounds
Environmental Change, Processes, and
Effects
548-Full2 Chixculub K-T Impact Crater
556-Full4 Malvinas Confluence
567-Full4 South Pacific Paleogene
581-Full2 Late Pleistocene Coralgal Banks
595-Full3 Indus Fan and Murray Ridge
661-Full2 Newfoundland Sediment Drifts
667-Full NW Australian Shelf Eustasy
672-Full3 Baltic Sea Basin Paleoenvironment
686-Full Southern Alaska Margin I
732-Full2 Antarctic Peninsula Sediment Drifts
Solid Earth Cycles and Geodynamics
551-Full Hess Deep Plutonic Crust
659-Full Newfoundland Rifted Margin
669-Full3 Walvis Ridge Hotspot
681-Full2 Lesser Antilles Volcanic Landslides
695-Full2 Izu-Bonin-Mariana Pre-Arc Crust
697-Full3 Izu-Bonin-Mariana Reararc Crust
698-Full2 Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc Middle Crust
703-Full Costa Rica SEISCork
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4. SPC Business March 2010 OTF proposals
Scheduled or recommended for FY10-11
Available for future consideration by OTF
519-Full2 South Pacific Sea Level
477-Full4 Okhotsk/Bering Plio-Pleistocence
522-Full5 Superfast Spreading Crust
(Okhotsk)
537A-Full5 Costa Rica Seismogenesis Phase A
505-Full5 Mariana Convergent Margin
545-Full3 Juan de Fuca Flank Hydrogeology
537B-Full4 Costa Rica Seismogenesis Phase B
603A-Full2 NanTroSEIZE Phase 1: Reference Sites 549-Full6 Northern Arabian Sea Monsoon
603B-Full2 NanTroSEIZE Phase 2: Mega-splay
552-Full3 Bengal Fan
Faults
601-Full3 Okinawa Trough Deep Biosphere
603C-Full NantroSEIZE Phase 3: Plate Interface
605-Full2 Asian Monsoon
603D-Full2 NanTroSEIZE Observatories
644-Full2 Mediterranean Outflow
636-Full3 Louisville Seamount Trail
693-APL S. Chamorro Seamount CORK
662-Full3 South pacific Gyre Microbiology
716-Full2 Hawaiian Drowned Coral Reefs
677-Full Mid-Atlantic Ridge Microbiology
724-Full Gulf of Aden Faunal Evolution
734-APL Cascadia Accretionary Prism CORK
738-APL Nankai Trough Submarine Landslides
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