A new partnership between Ocean Networks Canada and the Canadian Consortium for Ocean Drilling ensures Canada’s membership in the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) continues until 2023, with the support and participation of 10 Canadian universities as well as Natural Resources Canada.

For over 50 years, IODP drilling expeditions have led to many fundamental breakthroughs in the understanding of our oceans, climate, and Earth evolution, including significant leaps in our understanding of plate tectonics, climate change, circulation of fluids through Earth’s crust, the limits of life on and within Earth. To date, Canadian researchers have published over 800 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals based on data collected during IODP expeditions. The program also...