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South Korea Joins Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 26, 2006 The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, the world's largest and most ambitious scientific ocean research program operating today, has expanded its base of international support by welcoming the Republic of Korea as its newest member. South Korea's membership was signed into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) by officials from Japan, the United States, and the Republic of Korea. The MOU creates an Interim Asian Consortium, with the Korean Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) as its first affiliated institution. Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) jointly fund IODP, providing maximum support of most IODP science and drilling operations. "South Korea brings welcome intellectual and scientific resources to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program," says Manik Talwani, president & CEO of the IODP International Management (IODP-MI)corporation. "The first to initiate a new Asian scientific ocean-drilling consortium, South Korea also brings new energy and future promise." As an IODP member nation, South Korea will contribute scientists to upcoming IODP research expeditions. The next expedition, tentatively scheduled for early summer 2007, will conduct shallow-water, subseafloor investigations along the intercontinental shelf off New Jersey's coast. "South Korea's investment in IODP," says James Allan, IODP program director at NSF, "supports critical research that generates new scientific data about how the Earth works." By monitoring and sampling subseafloor environments, IODP scientists probe questions about climate and environmental change, solid Earth cycles and processes, and the largely unknown deep biosphere. "The more resources we bring to bear on scientific ocean-drilling investigations," adds Allan, "the more robust IODP can become, and the more we can learn about the planet we live on." Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International Water News - Science, Technology and Politics
Fourteen Die As Pakistan Tribes Clash Over Water
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Jun 20, 2006Pakistani authorities Tuesday negotiated a temporary truce after at least 14 people died and 35 were wounded in a gunbattle between two tribes over access to water, officials said. The rival groups left their hillside trenches after two days of fighting with assault rifles and rocket launchers near Parachinar, the main town in the Kurram tribal agency bordering Afghanistan, a government statement said. |
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