ESO - ECORD Science Operator
ESO is a consortium of European scientific institutions formed to undertake Mission-specific platform (MSP) operations for ECORD on behalf of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. To date, ESO has undertaken two MSP operations, the Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX) and the Tahiti Sea-Level Expedition.
The New Jersey Shallow Shelf Expedition is currently taking place off the east coast of the USA and plans are being made to conduct the Great Barrier Reef Environmental Changes Expedition later in 2009.
ESO is made up of :
The British Geological Survey - BGS, which acts as the consortium co-ordinator responsible for overall ESO management. BGS provides the Science Manager (see link below for the ESO management structure), who acts as the main contact with both the ECORD Management Agency (EMA) and ECORD Council. BGS also provides the Operations Manager (BGS Marine Operations), Data Manager and Outreach Manager for the consortium, as well as the Staff Scientist and Administrative Support for each MSP.
Bremen University provides the ESO Curation and Laboratory Manager, who is responsible for analytical facilities during
offshore MSP operations and the onshore science party. The Bremen Core Repository (BCR) is the ESO facility
for core curation and management. The University is also involved in data management tasks provided by WDC-MARE/PANGAEA
(IODP-MSP data portal), and provides the Public Relations Manager for ESO. GFZ Potsdam additionally supports ESO by contributing
the Drilling Information System (DIS) for offshore data acquisition.
The European
Petrophysical Consortium carries out all logging and petrophysical activities for ESO. This consortium
comprises the University of Leicester (co-ordinator), U.K, the Université
de Montpellier, France and RWTH Aachen, Germany.
