Chris Lowery’s research in micropaleontology and paleoceanography is innovative, flourishing and diversifying and has garnered national and international attention. His underlying focus is on how the oceans have changed over the past ~100 million yea...

We honor Professor Takeshi Tsuji with the Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize for his pioneering achievements in utilizing core-log-seismic data to estimate pore pressure, stress, fluid flow, gas hydrate distribution ...

Hiroko Kitajima is at the vanguard of international research efforts to advance our understanding of plate boundary faults via scientific drilling. She has carried out foundational research and has excelled as a team leader during technically chal...

Rosalind Coggon conducts exciting multidisciplinary science using scientific ocean drilling samples and data. She has taken a leadership role in the community, including serving as co-editor of the new 2050 Science Framework: Exploring Earth by Scien...

Beth N. Orcutt has made transdisciplinary contributions to microbiology and biogeochemistry in the deep oceanic subsurface through the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). She has made these advances largely through her research in ocean dri...

Brandon Dugan’s transdisciplinary contributions, which couple pore pressure, fluid flow, and the evolution of sediment properties, are a crucial pillar of the geohazard research highlighted in the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) sc...

Michael “Michi” Strasser is a key science driver for increasing our understanding of submarine mass movements through scientific ocean drilling. He has enthusiastically conducted research on mass transport deposits induced by historic meg...