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Pacific Marine
Environmental
Laboratory of the
National Oceanic
and Atmospheric
Administration
(PMEL/NOAA)
From December 15,
2002 to June 14,
2008
(Under renewal
process, extended for
6 months)
1) Cooperation on maintenance of TRITON
buoy/TAO array
2) Ocean and climate research
3) Ocean and atmospheric monitoring
4) Data management
5) general information exchange
Monterey Bay
Aquarium Research
Institute (MBARI)
From March 18, 2008
to March 17, 2013
1) Ecology and evolutionary research on deep
ocean floor organisms and middle depth marine
organisms
2) Development of video image analysis and
database
3) Development of deep-sea observation device
4) Exchange of general information and scientific
information
Texas A & M
University (TAMU)
From October 23
2007 to October 22,
012 (Automatically
renewed by 5 years)
1) Marine drilling
2) Global ocean circulation/climate change
3) Analysis of features of crustal movement
4) Microbiological gas hydrates in deep-sea
biosphere
University of Hawaii
(UH)
University of Alaska
(UA)
From April 1, 2004
(April 28) to March
31, 2009
From April 1, 2004
(April 28) to March
31, 2009
Contract research on the International Pacific
Research Center (IPRC)
Contract research on the International Arctic
Research Center (IARC)
UK
IODP Management
International, Inc.
(IODP-MI)
Southampton
Oceanography
Centre (SOC)
From October 1,
2004 to March 31,
2009
From March 25, 2002
to March 24, 2007
Planning of activities for Integrated Ocean
Drilling Program (IODP) with the IODP
Management International, Inc. (IODP-MI) and
establishment of a formal framework on
implementation of the activities
1) Geology and geophysics
2) Marine physics
3) Thalassochemistry
4) Underwater technology
5) Atmospheric and ocean simulation
6) Information exchange
India
National Institute of
Oceanography (NIO)
From May 31, 2000
to December 4, 2011
1) Ocean observation associated with climate
research
2) General information exchange
Indonesia
Indonesia Agency for
the Assessment and
Application of
Technology (BPPT)
From November 20,
2000 to July 10, 2011
1) Research on tropical marine climate change
2) Research on climate dynamics in
maritime-continental region
3) Deep-sea research on geology/geophysics and
biology
Australia
Commonwealth
Scientific and
Industrial Research
Organization
(CSIRO)
From August 6, 2003
to August 5, 2008
1) Research on thermal and material flux related
to the ocean circulation and its variation
2) Research on carbon dioxide balance on the
Indian Ocean
3) Distribution of chlorofluorocarbons on the
South Pacific Ocean
4) General information exchange
1) Observation and model research on ocean
climate change in the upper undersea layer of
200 to 300m of the Arctic Ocean
2) Physical, scientific and biological observation
of interaction of the continental shelf and the sea
basin and its model research
3) Observational research on balance of
freshwater and chemical components on the
Bering Sea, the Chukchi Sea, and the Beaufort
Sea
4) Observation and model research on variation
of ice thickness distribution on the continental
shelf and the sea basin
Canada
Department of
Fisheries and
Oceans (DFO)
From March 20, 2000
(Automatically
renewed)