{"title":"Twenty years of MSPs: Technologies and Perspectives","authors":"David McInroy","doi":"10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107403","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mission-Specific Platforms (MSPs) have been important members of the scientific ocean drilling family for two decades, operating alongside their impressive siblings <em>JOIDES Resolution</em> and <em>D/V Chikyu</em>. Over this time, 10 MSP expeditions were implemented in 7 different oceans and seas. These MSPs capitalised on alternative platforms and methods, and enabled the scientific community to access new geographical areas and new geological targets that could not be drilled by the <em>JOIDES Resolution</em> or <em>Chikyu</em>. Offshore heave-compensated wireline coring, onshore-mining-style wireline coring, remote seafloor drilling and giant piston coring have all featured on MSP expeditions. Equally diverse were the environments in which these technologies were deployed, from the ice-covered Arctic Ocean to the tropical seas of the Great Barrier Reef, and from the shallow waters of the Yucatan shelf to the ultra-deep hadal depths of the Japan Trench. In this paper we reflect on the diverse technologies of MSPs, how they increased scientific ocean drilling capability in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (2003−2013) and International Ocean Discovery Program (2013–2024), and the scientific achievements that they enabled.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18229,"journal":{"name":"Marine Geology","volume":"477 ","pages":"Article 107403"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Marine Geology","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025322724001877","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Mission-Specific Platforms (MSPs) have been important members of the scientific ocean drilling family for two decades, operating alongside their impressive siblings JOIDES Resolution and D/V Chikyu. Over this time, 10 MSP expeditions were implemented in 7 different oceans and seas. These MSPs capitalised on alternative platforms and methods, and enabled the scientific community to access new geographical areas and new geological targets that could not be drilled by the JOIDES Resolution or Chikyu. Offshore heave-compensated wireline coring, onshore-mining-style wireline coring, remote seafloor drilling and giant piston coring have all featured on MSP expeditions. Equally diverse were the environments in which these technologies were deployed, from the ice-covered Arctic Ocean to the tropical seas of the Great Barrier Reef, and from the shallow waters of the Yucatan shelf to the ultra-deep hadal depths of the Japan Trench. In this paper we reflect on the diverse technologies of MSPs, how they increased scientific ocean drilling capability in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (2003−2013) and International Ocean Discovery Program (2013–2024), and the scientific achievements that they enabled.
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Marine Geology is the premier international journal on marine geological processes in the broadest sense. We seek papers that are comprehensive, interdisciplinary and synthetic that will be lasting contributions to the field. Although most papers are based on regional studies, they must demonstrate new findings of international significance. We accept papers on subjects as diverse as seafloor hydrothermal systems, beach dynamics, early diagenesis, microbiological studies in sediments, palaeoclimate studies and geophysical studies of the seabed. We encourage papers that address emerging new fields, for example the influence of anthropogenic processes on coastal/marine geology and coastal/marine geoarchaeology. We insist that the papers are concerned with the marine realm and that they deal with geology: with rocks, sediments, and physical and chemical processes affecting them. Papers should address scientific hypotheses: highly descriptive data compilations or papers that deal only with marine management and risk assessment should be submitted to other journals. Papers on laboratory or modelling studies must demonstrate direct relevance to marine processes or deposits. The primary criteria for acceptance of papers is that the science is of high quality, novel, significant, and of broad international interest.