International Continental Scientific Drilling Program, ICDP

ICDP是一个国际管理和运作的地球科学研究计划。它解决了具有全球意义的基本地球科学问题，由国际科学家团队在世界各地精心挑选的地点开展。国际地球科学中心服务于整个地球科学界，并经过同行评审。近年来，在对高度复杂的“地球系统”及其众多子系统的概念理解方面取得了重大进展。因此，很明显，科学钻探是我们理解地球过程和性质不可或缺的工具。钻探是获得有关深部作业过程的直接信息的唯一手段。它允许确定固体材料和流体的就地性质，并允许测试从地面观测、遥感数据和实验室实验中得出的假设和模型。此外，钻孔可用作实验的天然实验室，也可用作长期监测正在进行的活动过程的观察站。因此，地球钻探在旨在改善对地球运行机制的了解的科学研究和解决紧迫的社会问题方面都发挥着至关重要的作用。ICDP的支持是基于“共同出资”原则和国际成本分担。每个钻探项目都是由国际钻探委员会和首席调查员(S)以联合研究企业的形式独立组织的。该奖项为美国参与ICDP提供了持续的支持。

ICDP is an internationally managed and operated Earth Science research program. It addressesfundamental geoscientific problems of global significance and is undertaken by internationalteams of scientists at carefully selected sites around the world. ICDP serves the entire EarthScience community and is peer-reviewed.Significant progress has been made in recent years in the conceptual understanding of thehighly complex 'System Earth' with its numerous subsystems. As a result, it has become clearthat scientific drilling is an indispensible tool in our understanding of Earth processesand properties. Drilling provides the only means of obtaining direct information on processesoperating at depth. It allows for determination of in situ-properties of solid materials andfluids and permits testing of hypotheses and models derived from surface observations, remotesensing data and laboratory experiments. In addition, drill holes may be used as a natural laboratory for experiments and as an observatory for long term monitoring of ongoing active processes. Earth drilling, therefore, plays a criticalrole both in scientific research directed towards improved understanding of the workings of our planet and in solving urgent societal problems.ICDP support is based on the 'comingled funding' principle and international costsharing. Each drilling project is independently organized in the form of a Joint Research Venture(JRV)between the ICDP and the Principle Investigator(s). This award provides continued support for the U.S. participation in ICDP.