Deep Sea Drilling Project
Deep Sea Drilling Project records, 1961-1987, bulk 1966-1987.
The records in this accession document the operation of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. The records include documentation of Joint Oceanographic Institutions Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES) and Joint Oceanographic Institutions Incorporated (JOI), Inc., contracts and subcontracts, proposals, program plans, correspondence, safety reviews, leg files, radio messages, deck logs of R/V Glomar Challenger, records of the Operations and Engineering Office, records of project managers and chief scientists (including Melvin Peterson), documentation of instrumentation design, documentation of cruise staffing and DSDP personnel, press releases, photographs and other material.
As early as 1957 earth scientists discussed the possiblity of drilling a hole through oceanic crust to the Mohorovicic discontinuity. The project became known as the Mohole Project and was supported by the National Science Foundation. The first hole was drilled in 1961. The Mohole Project was terminated in 1966. In 1964, a consortium of oceanographic institutions, the Joint Oceanographic Institutions Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES) was formed, and in 1965 the group submitted a proposal to NSF to drill sediments and shallow basement rocks in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and adjacent seas. In 1966 with NSF funding, the Deep Sea Drilling Project was operated at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO). In January 1967, SIO signed a contract with the National Science Foundation to manage the drilling program. By March 1987 the project had expended over 226 million dollars. The Deep Sea Drilling Project contract ended in 1987, and the drilling operations were moved to Texas A&M.
Deep Sea Drilling Project
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling.
Earth -- Internal structure -- Research.
Marine geophysics -- Research.
Marine sciences.
Scientific expeditions.
Underwater drilling.
Photographs. aat
Ships' logs. aat
Peterson, Melvin Norman Adolph.
Project Mohole
Glomar Challenger (Ship).
Joint Oceanographic Institutions Incorporated.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Library. Archives.
AIP-ICOS
University of California, San Diego. Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Mandeville Special Collections Library. 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA