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doi:10.14379/iodp.sp.352.2013 Sample and data sharing strategyShipboard and shore-based researchers should refer to the IODP Sample, Data, and Obligations policy (www.iodp.org/program-policies/). This document outlines the policy for distributing IODP samples and data and defines the obligations incurred by sample and data recipients. Any policy changes that may occur with the beginning of the International Ocean Discovery Program in October 2013 will be distributed to shipboard and interested shore-based scientists as soon as possible. All requests for core samples and data must be approved by the Sample Allocation Committee (SAC). The SAC is composed of the Co-Chief Scientists, Expedition Project Manager, and IODP Curator on shore or curatorial representative on board the ship. The SAC will work with the entire scientific party to formulate a formal expedition-specific sampling plan for shipboard sampling. Scientists are expected to submit data and sample requests using the Sample and Data Request Database (iodp.tamu.edu/sdrm/) ~3 months before the beginning of the expedition. Based on shipboard and shore-based research plans submitted by this deadline, the SAC will prepare a tentative sampling plan, which will be revised on the ship as dictated by recovery and cruise objectives. The sampling plan will be subject to modification, depending upon the actual material recovered and collaborations that may evolve between scientists during the expedition. Modification of the strategy during the expedition must be approved by the SAC. One goal will be to gain approval for a program of communal sampling for geochemistry and petrology, whereby the same intervals are powdered and split for use by the whole community. The minimum permanent archive will be the standard archive half of each core. 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 measurements is unavoidable, but minimizing the duplication of measurements among the shipboard scientists and identified shore-based collaborators will be a factor in evaluating data and sample requests. If some critical intervals are recovered, there may be considerable demand for samples from a limited amount of cored material. These intervals may require special handling, a higher sampling density, reduced sample size, or continuous core sampling for the highest priority research objectives. Following Expedition 352, cores will be delivered to the IODP Kochi Core Center in Kochi, Japan. All collected data and samples will be protected by a 1 y moratorium period following the completion of the expedition, during which time data and samples will be available only to the Expedition 352 science party and approved shore-based participants. |
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