Promoting Scientific Ocean Drilling Impacts to the Benefit of Society
Long-term investment and maintaining leadership in the ocean sciences and scientific ocean drilling will be vital to enhancing our understanding of planetary health and sustainability while strengthening STEM research and inclusive workforce development in the United States
US-SODA Founding Members
Providing Expertise
The US-SODA institutions represent a strong combined knowhow garnered over decades of scientific ocean drilling and we stand ready to assist and to provide advise to NSF in the process leading to a new U.S. drilling vessel and future accompanying drilling program(s).
Our Goals
- Promoting scientific ocean drilling as a critical foundation upon which advances in, for example, climate science, hazard assessments, and resilience planning should be built
- Advocating for innovative new scientific ocean drilling facilities and strategies that lead to major progress in our understanding of the interconnected processes of the complex Earth system that shape our planet’s future
- Supporting trustworthy and societally relevant scientific ocean drilling research that provides effective STEM training and knowledge about our planet to the public and decision-makers
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THREE US-SODA PRIORITIES
A JOINED HOLISTIC VISION
Promoting Scientific
Ocean Drilling
Impacts to the
Benefit of Society
THE 2050 SCIENCE FRAMEWORK
Enabling Decades
of Science Success
Through a New U.S.
Drilling Vessel
2024-2028
BRIDGING PROGRAM
Advocating for the
Continued U.S. Science
Leadership in Ocean
and Climate Sciences