{"id":201,"date":"2015-12-28T02:09:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T02:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.99.100:8080\/award\/characterizing-subseafloor-life-and-environments-in-the-guaymas-basin\/"},"modified":"2019-10-01T15:15:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T22:15:09","slug":"characterizing-subseafloor-life-and-environments-in-the-guaymas-basin","status":"publish","type":"award","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/award\/characterizing-subseafloor-life-and-environments-in-the-guaymas-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"Characterizing subseafloor life and environments in the Guaymas Basin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This grant allowed us to perform an essential site survey of proposed IODP [International Ocean Discovery Program] drilling sites in Guaymas Basin with our Mexican collaborators, Carlos Mortera at UNAM [R\/V <em>El Puma<\/em>, October 14-27, 2014]. In particular, we obtained 15 high-quality gravity cores, up to 5 m deep, from different targets in Guaymas Basin and the Sonora Margin. After this survey, and a second site survey by our German collaborators [Christian Berndt, R\/V <em>Sonne<\/em>, June 23 to July 24, 2015], Ivano, Christina and I obtained funding from the US Science Support Office of IODP for a Guaymas Basin Drilling workshop in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Nov. 6 to 10, 2015. This workshop was well attended by US-American, European and Mexican geoscientists, and provided the foundation for the revision of the Guaymas Basin drilling proposal [IODP 833, originally submitted in April 2013, and submitted in revision in October 2016]. For a sequencing survey of the <em>El Puma<\/em> gravity core samples from Guaymas Basin and Sonora Margin, PI Teske obtained Deep Carbon Observatory sequencing support, through their Census of Deep Life Program [June 2015]. Meanwhile, an independently funded third survey cruise [R\/V <em>Alpha Helix<\/em>, May 13 to June 2, 2016, shore-based proponent D. Lizarralde, WHOI] obtained crucial seismic lines for the revised drilling proposal. Finally, another independently funded Guaymas Basin cruise with R\/V <em>Atlantis<\/em> and HOV <em>Alvin<\/em> [December 7-29, 2016, Chief Scientist A. Teske] provided highly resolved bathymetry and <em>Alvin<\/em> seafloor observations of some of our most important off-axis drilling targets.<\/p>\n<p>The combined data of these four site surveys were essential to revise and amend the Guaymas Drilling Proposal. Between January and May 2017, the proposal was fast-tracked through Science Evaluation Panel, External Review, Proposal Addendum, Environmental Protection and Safety Panel, and finally the JOIDES Resolution Facilities Board. As noted in writing [May 24], Guaymas Basin Drilling Proposal 833-2 is now approved; the drilling cruise with JOIDES Resolution is planned for mid-September to mid-November 2019 [Anthony Koppers, JR Facilities Board, pers. comm.]\n<p>Thus, the C-DEBI grant has catalyzed a highly successful cascade of site surveys, workshop and proposal revisions that have put the Guaymas Basin deep drilling expedition on the map for 2019 \u2013 the next C-DEBI IODP expedition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":[],"award_type":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/awards\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/awards"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/award"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"award_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/award_type?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}