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doi:10.2204/iodp.sp.302.2004
SAMPLE ALLOCATION COMMITTEE AND SAMPLING REQUESTS
At the time of the publication of this Scientific Prospectus, the IODP Sample, Data, and Obligations policy is not finalized but the interim IODP Sample, Data and Obligations Policy (www.iodp.org/program-policies) has been put in place. Access to data and core sampling during Expedition 302, or within the 1-year moratorium following the onshore part of the expedition, must be approved by the Sample Allocation Committee (SAC).
The SAC (composed of Co-Chief scientists, Staff Scientist, and ESO Curation Manager onshore or the curatorial representative onboard ship) will work with the Scientific Party to formulate a formal expedition-specific sampling plan for post-cruise sampling.
The SAC reviewed and made decisions on sample requests for the offshore component of the expedition, but deferred the onshore requests until after the offshore phase. The SAC agreed that this deferment is needed so that sample requests can be reviewed in the context of the known core recovery and lithology.
All sample frequencies and sizes must be justified on a scientific basis and will depend on core recovery, the full spectrum of other requests, and the expedition objectives. Some redundancy of measurement may be unavoidable, but minimizing the duplication of measurements among the Scientific Party (may include approved shore-based collaborators) will be a factor in evaluating sample requests.
The minimum permanent archive will consist of one half of each core taken from the deepest hole drilled at a site. As such, the archive halves of cores from additional holes drilled to equal or shallower depths that contain replicate copies of stratigraphic intervals constituting the minimum permanent archive, need not be designated as permanent archive, but can be, if so desired by the SAC. This may be required, for example, to fill gaps in recovery in the deepest hole. If not designated as permanent archive, they are "temporary archive". If a composite splice section is constructed and the sampling demand exceeds the working half, an alternative scenario may be required to make sure that all samples can be taken from the spliced section. In this case, the permanent archive will be defined from cores that are not part of the splice (e.g., from cores from different holes).
The Sample Allocation Committee comprises:
Jan Backman Co-chief
Kate Moran Co-chief
Ursula Röhl ESO Curation Manager (Alex Wülbers is the offshore representative)
Dan Evans ESO Staff Scientist