EXPEDITION 501 NEW ENGLAND SHELF HYDROGEOLOGY
Expedition 501 will help to determine the origin and volume of offshore freshwater in the subseafloor of New England shelf, and will lead to a better understanding of this hydrogeological phenomenon worldwide.
- Dates: postponed to 2025 (TBC)
- Expedition Project Manager: Jeremy Everest (lead), Margaret Stewart
- Port: tbd
- Drillship: tbd
EXPEDITION 389 HAWAIIAN DROWNED REEFS
Expedition 389 will address several questions related to sea-level in the central Pacific over the last 500 kyr, as well as the response of coral reef systems to abrupt changes.
- Scheduled for: 31 Aug – 31 Oct 2023
- Expedition Project Manager: Hannah Grant (lead) and Margaret Stewart
- Port: Barbers Point Harbor, Hawaii
- Drillship: MMA Valour, equipped with the Benthic Portable Remotely Operated Drill (PROD5)
EXPEDITION 386 JAPAN TRENCH PALEOSEISMOLOGY
This expedition will recover trench-fill sedimentary successions (Upper Pleistocene-to-Holocene) along an axis-parallel transect of the 7-8km deep Japan Trench to reconstruct a long history of giant earthquakes off NE Japan.
- Scheduled for 2021: Offshore – 13 April – 1 June 2021.
Onshore – 14 February – 15 March 2022 - Expedition Project Manager: Jeremy Everest
- Port: Yokosuka
- Drillships: Offshore R/V Kaimei; Onshore Science Party D/V Chikyu
EXPEDITION 381 CORINTH ACTIVE RIFT DEVELOPMENT
Expedition 381 addresses several questions related to fault and rift structural evolution as well as surface processes in an active continental rift.
- 23 October-18 December 2017 (offshore) & 31 January-28 February 2018 (Onshore Science Party)
- Expedition Project Manager: Gareth Carter (lead) and Jeremy Everest
- Port: Corinth (Greece)
- Drillship: Fugro Synergy
EXPEDITION 364 CHICXULUB K-PG IMPACT CRATER
Expedition 364 addresses questions related to large impact crater formation on Earth and other planets, and the effects of large impacts on the Earth’s environment and ecology.
- 5 April-31 May 2016 (offshore) & 21 September-15 October 2016 (Onshore Science Party)
- Expedition Project Manager: Claire Mellett – Sophie Green and Gareth Carter
- Port: Progreso, Mexico
- Drillship: L/B Myrtle
EXPEDITION 357 ATLANTIS MASSIF SERPENTINIZATION AND LIFE
Expedition 357 addresses questions about serpentinization of rocks from the Earth’s mantle and its consequences for heat flux, geochemical cycles and microbial activity.
- 26 October–11 December 2015 (offshore) & 20 January-5 February 2016 (Onshore Science Party)
- Expedition Project Manager: Sophie Green, Carol Cotterill (offshore EPM).
- Port: Southampton, UK.
- Drillship: RRS James Cook carrying the BGS Rockdrill 2 and the MARUM-MeBo seafloor drills.
EXPEDITION 377 ARCTIC OCEAN PALEOCEANOGRAPHY (ArcOP)
Expedition 377 ArcOP, based on Proposal 708, aims at recovering a continuous stratigraphic record of the long-term Cenozoic climate history of the central Arctic Ocean.
- Scheduled for: Postponed
- Expedition Project Managers: Jeremy Everest, Hannah Grant, Margaret Stewart
- Port: tbd
- Drillship: Dina Polaris
EXPEDITION 373 ANTARCTIC CENOZOIC PALEOCLIMATE
Expedition 373 addresses questions about climatic changes – from greenhouse to icehouse (Eocene to Oligocene) – of the Antarctica as well as timing and environmental conditions of the ice sheets during the Oligocene.
- Scheduled for: tbd
- Expedition Project Manager: tbc
- Port: tbd
- Drillship: tbd
