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The Ocean Drilling Program, and its predecessor the Deep Sea Drilling Project, retrieve cores from the ocean floor using a dedicated research vessel that took advantage of the design, navigation features, and safety equipment that enabled oil companies to explore for off-shore oil. By drilling in ways that minimally disturb the cores, the project provides participating scientists with data relevant to earth history and tectonic structure. National Science Foundation contracted with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, San Diego to manage DSDP from its inception in 1968. Scripps followed the scientific advice of the Joint Institutes for Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES), which initially consisted of Scripps, the Lamont Doherty Oceanographic Institution of Columbia University, the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Miami, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The Ocean Drilling Program, initiated in 1985, is managed scientifically by the JOIDES, whose membership has expanded to ten American institutions, four nations and two international consortia of nations. It is managed fiscally by the Joint Oceanographic Institutes, Incorporated (JOI), which contracts to the Texas A&M Research Foundation for the maintenance and operation of the ship. The DSDP/ODP has been international in scope since 1975.

From the description of Deep Sea Drilling Project/Ocean Drilling Program (DSDP/ODP) (Geophysics and Oceanography): Oral history interviews, 1992-1994. (American Institute of Physics). WorldCat record id: 80362493

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associatedWith Australian National University. corporateBody
associatedWith Barron, John A. person
associatedWith Cambridge University. corporateBody
associatedWith Center for History of Physics (American Institute of Physics) corporateBody
associatedWith Columbia University. corporateBody
associatedWith Dartmouth College. corporateBody
associatedWith Deep Sea Drilling Project. corporateBody
associatedWith Douglas, Robert G. person
associatedWith Drake, Charles L. person
associatedWith Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. corporateBody
associatedWith Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Geological Institute. corporateBody
associatedWith European Science Foundation. corporateBody
associatedWith Florida State University. corporateBody
associatedWith Geological Survey of Great Britain. corporateBody
associatedWith Geological Survey (U.S.) corporateBody
associatedWith Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. corporateBody
associatedWith Langseth, Marcus G. person
associatedWith Massachusetts Institute of Technology. corporateBody
associatedWith McKenzie, J. A. (Judith A.) person
associatedWith National Science Foundation (U.S.) corporateBody
associatedWith Nierenberg, William Aaron, 1919-2000. person
associatedWith Ocean Drilling Program. corporateBody
associatedWith Oregon State University. corporateBody
associatedWith Rice University. Dept. of Geology & Geophysics. corporateBody
associatedWith Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. corporateBody
associatedWith Scripps Institution of Oceanography. corporateBody
associatedWith Swart, P. K. person
associatedWith Symonds, P. A. person
associatedWith Texas A. and M. Research Foundation. corporateBody
associatedWith Texas A & M University. Dept. of Oceanography. corporateBody
associatedWith Université de Bordeaux. corporateBody
associatedWith University of Alaska. Dept. of Geology & Geophysics. corporateBody
associatedWith University of California, San Diego. corporateBody
associatedWith University of California, Santa Cruz. corporateBody
associatedWith University of Edinburgh. corporateBody
associatedWith University of Hawaii. Dept. of Geology & Geophysics. corporateBody
associatedWith University of Miami. corporateBody
associatedWith University of New Brunswick. corporateBody
associatedWith University of Rhode Island. corporateBody
associatedWith University of Southern California. corporateBody
associatedWith University of Texas at Austin. corporateBody
associatedWith University of Washington. corporateBody
associatedWith Van Andel, Tjeerd H. 1923- person
associatedWith Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. corporateBody
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