Ocean Drilling Data

Deep Sea Drilling Project & Ocean Drilling Program Data

World Data Center for Marine Geology & Geophysics, Boulder

The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) is an international program to explore the ocean basins funded by the Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES), a consortium of several foreign countries and the US National Science Foundation. ODP is managed by the Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI). The Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP), the predecessor of the ODP, operated from 1967 through 1983. Beginning in 2003, the new Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) will begin operation, also with international funding. For more information on these programs, see the links below.

NGDC operates a parallel archive for ODP and DSDP data. All DSDP data, and core data from Legs 101-129 of the ODP, are available from NGDC on CD-ROM and also for free on-line download. Two composite DSDP data reports published by NGDC as part of the World Data Center Report series are also available (see links at left).