People
ChikyuOman Phase 1 Decision Making Team
ChikyuOman Phase 2 Decision Making Team
Lead Proponents
Prof. Peter Kelemen – Lead Proponent, Chief Scientist, Chair of Project Steering Committee
Peter Kelemen is Arthur D. Storke Professor and Chair of the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. He was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the Mineralogical Society of America, and the Geochemical Society. He studies the chemical and physical processes of reaction between fluids and rocks. He has worked on the genesis and evolution of oceanic and continental crust, chemical cycles in subduction zones, and new mechanisms for earthquake initiation. His primary focus now is on geologic capture and storage of CO2 (CCS), and reaction-driven cracking processes in natural and engineered settings, with application to CCS, geothermal power generation, hydrocarbon extraction, and in situ mining. He teaches a popular course on “Earth Resources for Sustainable Development” at Columbia, as well as courses and seminars on petrology, geochemistry, and geodynamics. Kelemen was a founding partner of Dihedral Exploration (1980-1992), consultants specializing in exploration for mineral deposits in steep terrain, with contracts in Canada, Alaska and Greenland. Research and climbing have taken him to Peru, India, Oman, the Aleutian Islands, 7,500 meters above sea level in Pakistan, and 5,500 meters below sea level via submersibles along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. He received his AB from Dartmouth College in 1980, and his PhD from the University of Washington in 1987. He spent 16 years at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution before moving to Columbia’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory in 2004.
Prof. Jürg M. Matter – Lead Proponent and Project Director
Juerg Matter is Associate Professor in Geoengineering at the University of Southampton, UK since spring 2013. Matter was previously an Associate Research Professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York. Matter studies the physical and geochemical processes of gas-water-rock reactions. He has worked on the geochemical and isotopic characterization of groundwater systems applying field techniques and numerical simulations. His primary focus now is on geologic carbon capture and storage. Matter has made fundamental advances in understanding permanent carbon storage in unconventional geologic reservoirs, such as basaltic rocks and mantle peridotites. He also develops new tracer techniques for monitoring and accounting of CO2 transport, reactivity and storage in geologic systems. He received his MSci and PhD from ETH-Zurich in Switzerland.
Prof. Damon A. H. Teagle – Lead Proponent, Vice Chair of Project Steering Committee
Damon Teagle is Professor of Geochemistry and Royal Society Wolfson Foundation Merit Award holder at Ocean & Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, UK. He is also Deputy Director (Research) of the Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute. Damon’s research principally involves the role of fluids in geological and environmental processes with emphasis on the formation and evolution of the ocean crust, sea floor hydrothermal systems and their influence on global geochemical cycles, fluid flow during metamorphism and mountain building, ore mineralization, and unconventional approaches to carbon sequestration. In addition to the Oman Drilling Project, Damon has been heavily involved in the Superfast Campaign to drill a complete section of upper oceanic crust in ODP Hole 1256D (ODP Leg 206, IODP Expeditions 309/312, 335), the MoHole to Mantle project (M2M), and the Deep Fault Drilling Project to penetrate, sample and instrument the Alpine Fault, the highly active fault zone that forms the boundary between the Australian and Pacific plates in the South Island of New Zealand. He is heavily involved in scientific ocean drilling, and was part of the team that co-wrote the current IODP Science Plan. He presently chairs the NERC UK-IODP Programme Advisory Group. He holds an MSc in Geology from the University of Otago, New Zealand, and a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Cambridge. Before an unlikely move back to the UK he spent almost 7 years as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and then Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan.
Management
Dr. Jude Coggon – OmanDP Project Manager
Jude Coggon is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Southampton, UK. Her research focuses on the use of platinum-group elements (PGEs) and Pt-Re-Os isotopes to trace mantle processes and Early Earth crust-mantle dynamics. Coggon and co-authors developed a novel technique for measuring the 190Pt-186Os isotope system and pioneered the application of this system to directly date terrestrial samples, including platinum-group minerals from ophiolitic chromitites. She is interested in the behavior of PGEs during the lifecycle of oceanic lithosphere, implications for investigating early tectonic processes and concentration of these elements in precious metal mineral deposits. Coggon teaches undergraduate, MSci and MRes courses on subjects including mineralogy and crystallography, petrology, contemporary research and oral and written research presentation skills. She received her MESci from Cardiff University in 2007 and her PhD from Durham University in 2010. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Steinmann Institut, Rheinishe Friedrich-Wilhems-Universität Bonn from 2011 to 2015. She moved back to the UK from Germany in September 2015 to take up her current post at Southampton.
Eng. Zaher Bin Khalid Al Sulaimani – In-Country Project Manager
Mr Zaher Khaled Al Sulaimani holds BSc and MSc degrees in Earth Science and Physics. He is the Sultanate of Oman Country Technical Representative in the Middle East Desalination Research Center and a board member of the Public Authority for Electricity and Water. Al Sulaimani was Director General of Water resources in the Ministry of Regional Municipality and Water Resources and subsequently Director General of Projects in the Public Authority of Electricity and Water (total of 19 years service). Prior to that he served in the Ministry of Petroleum and Minerals for 11 years. Al Sulaimani is founder member and President of the Oman Water Society and founder member of the Geological Society of Oman. He is also a member of the Water Science Technology Association, the Environment Society of Oman, the International Water Association, the International Desalination Association and the Historical Association of Oman. His current interests focus on enhancing the principle of Integrated Water Resource Management and its applications and monitoring climate change and its impact on water resources and environmental systems.
Project Steering Committee (PSC)
The Oman Drilling Project is guided by a Project Steering Committee comprising the lead principal investigators, specialist experts, and important liaisons with national and international bodies such as the Sultanate of Oman Ministry of Regional Municipalities and Water Resources (MRMWR), JAMSTEC, the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP):
Prof. Peter Kelemen Chief Scientist of the Oman Drilling Project; Chair PSC; Lead Principal Investigator on Oman Drilling Project
Prof. Juerg Matter Principal Investigator on Oman Drilling Project; Principal contact with ICDP; Principal liaison with Omani Government and other bodies; Geophysical logging, physical properties measurements, and hydrology
Dr Jude Coggon OmanDP Project Manager; Logistics, personnel, website, organisation
Eng. Zaher Bin Khalid Al Sulaimani In-Country Project Manager; Logistics and liason in Oman
Prof. Damon A. H. Teagle Vice Chair of PSC; Chair of the Sampling Oversight and Allocation Committee (SOAC); Principal Investigator on Oman Drilling Project
Eng. Said Al-Habsi (Ministry of Regional Municipalities and Water Resources, Sultanate of Oman) Chair of the Oman Drilling Committee (ODC)
Dr. Ali Al Rajhi (Public Authority for Mining, Sultanante of Oman) Permitting and Government liason in Oman
Dr. Marguerite Godard (Directrice de Recherche, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, France) Geochemical and isotopic analyses of rock sampless
Prof. David Goldberg (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, USA) Geophysical logging and borehole packer testing
Dr. Benoit Ildefonse (Directeur de Recherche, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, France) Outreach, and liaison with the IODP
Prof. Jürgen Koepke (Leibniz Universitaet, Germany) Petrology of igneous and hi-T metamorphic rocks from the lower crust and mantle
Prof. Chris MacLeod (School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, UK) Structural and petrological work on igneous and high T metamorphic rocks in the middle crust and sheeted dikes
Prof. Craig Manning (Dept. Earth & Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, USA) Analyses of low temperature metamorphic rocks
Prof. Katsuyoshi Michibayashi (Nagoya University, Japan) Structural analyses of igneous and high T metamorphic rocks from the lower crust and upper mantle
Dr. Jay Miller (IODP Manager of Technical & Analytical Services, Texas A&M University, USA) Core logging, publication of the Initial Report, and other liaison with IODP personnel
Prof. Sobhi Nasir (Head, Dept. of Geology, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman) Participation of undergraduates and graduate students from Oman
Prof. Matthew Shrenk (Michigan State University, USA) Biogeological sampling and borehole incubation experiments
Prof. Everett Shock (Arizona State University, USA) Water and gas sampling and analysis
Prof. Eiichi Takazawa (Niigata University, Japan) Detailed site selection and associated surface mapping and sampling
Prof. Alexis Templeton (Dept. Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, USA) Biogeochemical and microbiological sampling and borehole incubation experiments
Day-to-day decisions are made by a Core Team comprising the Chief Scientist and Chair of the PSC (Kelemen), the Oman DP Project Director and Manager (Matter and Coggon, respectively), Mr Zaher al Sulaimani of the Oman Water Society, and the Vice-Chair of the PSC and Chair of the Sample Oversight and Allocation Committee (Teagle).
The Oman Drilling Committee (ODC)
The Oman Drilling Committee (ODC) was established by representatives of the major stakeholders in the Sultanate of Oman with interests in the Oman Drilling Project. The role of the ODC is to provide independent advice, and assist with the drilling permitting processes and other matters. The membership comes from a range of Omani government organisations and Sultan Qaboos University:
Eng. Said Al-Habsi (Chair) Ministry of Rural Municipalities and Water Resources (MRMWR)
Dr. Rashid Al-Abri (Co-Chair) MRMWR
Eng. Salim Al-Khanbashi MRMWR
Haider Al-Ajmi MRMWR
Dr. Ali Al-Rajahi Public Authority for Mining
Prof. Sobhi Nasir Sultan Qaboos University
Ibrahim Al Ajmi (Director General for Climate Affairs), Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs
Other Principal Investigators
Raeid Abed – Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Shoji Arai – Kanazawa University, Japan
Wolfgang Bach – University of Bremen, Germany
Kier Becker – Univeristy of Miami, USA
Françoise Boudier – Université de Montpellier, France
Georges Ceuleneer – CNRS, France
Laurence Coogan – University of Victoria, Canada
Gretchen Früh-Green – ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Dieter Garbe-Schönberg – University of Kiel, Germany
Kathyrn Gillis – University of Victoria, Canada
Steve Goldstein – Columbia University, USA
Philippe Gouze - Université de Montpellier, France
Greg Hirth – Brown University, USA
Albrecht Hofmann – Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Bjorn Jamtveit – Univeristy of Oslo, Norway
Frieder Klein – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, USA
Charles Langmuir – Harvard University, USA
Sumio Miyashita – Niigata University, Japan
Adolphe Nicolas – Université de Montpellier, France
Barbara Sherwood-Lollar – University of Toronto, Canada
Satish Singh – Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France
Rob Sohn – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, USA
Martin Stute – Columbia University, USA
Susumu Umino – Kanazawa University, Japan
Jessica Warren – University of Delaware, USA
ChikyuOman Phase 1 Decision Making Team (DMT)
The Oman Drilling Project Phase 1 drill cores will be described and analyzed onboard the JAMSTEC Drilling Vessel Chikyu from 15th July to 15th September 2017. For these shipboard activities onboard Chikyu a Decision Making Team (DMT) has been established for effective decision making and sharing of information between the OmanDP PSC, the shipboard Co-Chiefs, Staff Scientists, the wider Science party and the CDEX Laboratory Managers. When wider discussion is required, for example for budget related issues, the DMT will share information with a broader constituency including the OmanDP PSC, ODS group leaders and JAMSTEC administrators. Oversight of data and sampling will remain the responsibility of the OmanDP Sample Oversight and Allocation Committee (SOAC) but with refined procedures to approve and facilitate shipboard and personal sample requests (see below).
Membership of the OmanChikyu Phase 1 Decision Making Team (DMT)
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Co-Chief Scientist (Parts A & B) |
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Co-Chief Scientist (Part A) |
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Co-Chief Scientist (Part A) |
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Co-Chief Scientist (Part B) |
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Dr Michelle Harris |
Staff Scientist (BT1) / Co-Chief Scientist (GT3) |
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Staff Scientist (Part A) |
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Dr Natsue Abe |
Staff Scientist (Part A & B) |
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Mr Juan Carlos de Obeso |
Staff Scientist (Part B, GT3) |
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Ms Chiaki Igarashi |
Administration and CDEX Laboratory Manager |
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Dr Akihiro Tamura |
ChikyuOman Project Manager |
ChikyuOman Phase 2 Decision Making Team (DMT)
The Oman Drilling Project Phase 2 drill cores will be described and analyzed onboard the JAMSTEC Drilling Vessel Chikyu from 5th July to 5th September 2018. For these shipboard activities onboard Chikyu a Decision Making Team (DMT) has been established for effective decision making and sharing of information between the OmanDP PSC, the shipboard Co-Chiefs, Staff Scientists, the wider Science party and the CDEX Laboratory Managers. When wider discussion is required, for example for budget related issues, the DMT will share information with a broader constituency including the OmanDP PSC, ODS group leaders and JAMSTEC administrators. Oversight of data and sampling will remain the responsibility of the OmanDP Sample Oversight and Allocation Committee (SOAC) but with refined procedures to approve and facilitate shipboard and personal sample requests (see below).
Membership of the OmanChikyu Phase 2 Decision Making Team (DMT)
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Co-Chief Scientist (Parts A & B) |
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Co-Chief Scientist (Part A) |
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Staff Scientist (BT1) / Co-Chief Scientist (GT3) |
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Staff Scientist (Part A) |
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Ms Saebyul Choe |
Staff Scientist (Part A & B) |
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Dr Moe Kyaw |
JAMSTEC liason |
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Dr Natsue Abe |
JAMSTEC liason |
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Ms Chiaki Igarashi |
Administration and CDEX Laboratory Manager |
Oman Drilling Project Science Party
| Phase 1 Drillsite Science Party | Phase 1 Shipboard Science Party | Phase 2 Drillsite Science Party | Phase 2 Shipboard Science Party |
| Emma Bennett | Natsue Abe | Grace Andrews | Natsue Abe |
| Nico Bompard | Tetsu Akitou | Claire Aupart | Yuya Akamatsu |
| Marine Boulanger | Salim Ahmed Al Shahri | Anne Line Auzende | Salim Al-Amri |
| Jude Coggon | Hamood Hamed Shames Al Syabi | Wolfgang Bach | Mohamed Al Busaidi |
| Juan Carlos de Obeso | Saif Masoud Alhmaimi | Harry Becker | Anwaar Al-Hajri |
| Lyderic France | Maqbool Hussein AlRawahi | Mathieu Benoit | Majid Al-Jabri |
| Gretchen Früh-Green | Musaab Shaker Alsarmi | Eric Boyd | Mahmood Al-Sarmi |
| Dieter Garbe-Schönberg | Bader Hamed Alwaeli | Dawn Cardace | Said Almusharrafi |
| Michelle Harris | Andreas Beinlich | Georges Ceuleneer | Ibrahim ALSawafi |
| Benoit Ildefonse | Emma Bennett | Sayantani Chatterjee | Elena Amador-French |
| Ana Jesus | Marine Boulanger | Jude Coggon | Joseph Aslin |
| Peter Kelemen | Elliot Carter | Benoit Cordonnier | Claire Aupart |
| Juergen Koepke | Mike Cheadle | Laura Crispini | Wolfgang Bach |
| Louise Koornneef | Mark Cloos | Juan Carlos de Obeso | Samuel Barbier |
| Romain Lafay | Judith Coggon | Nicholas Dygert | Valentin Basch |
| Johan Lissenberg | Matthew Cooper | Eric Ellison | Francoise Boudier |
| Chris MacLeod | Laura Crispini | Alireaza Eslami | Elliot Carter |
| Craig Manning | Juan Carlos De Obeso | Aled Evans | Sayantani Chatterjee |
| Juerg Matter | Luke Deamer | Elizabeth Fones | Mike Cheadle |
| Dominik Mock | Jeremy Deans | Gretchen Früh-Green | Saebyul Choe |
| Tony Morris | Joëlle D'Andres | Emmanouil Giampouras | GIUSEPPE Cocomazzi |
| Samuel Müller | Kathi Faak | Clemens Glombitza | Jude Coggon |
| Julie Noël | Margot Godard | Marguerite Godard | Benoit Cordonnier |
| Dan Nothaft | Rebecca Greenberger | Juan Miguel Guotana | Laura Crispini |
| Americus Perez | Yumiko Harigane | Kohei Hatakeyama | Nick Dygert |
| Damon Teagle | Michelle Harris | Tanja Hörner | Bethany Ehlmann |
| David Zeko | Kohei Hatakeyama | Keisuke Ishii | Alireza Eslami |
| Nehal Warsi | Andrew Horst | Bjørn Jamtveit | Aled Evans |
| Barbara Zihlmann | Takashi Hoshide | Max Jansen | Katy Evans |
| Benoit Ildefonse | David Jousselin | Aida Farough | |
| Phase 1 Drillsite - Logging | Keisuke Ishii | Peter Kelemen | Gretchen Früh-Green |
| Philippe Pezard | Ana Jesus | Delphine Klaessens | Emmanouil Giampouras |
| Kevin Johnson | Juergen Koepke | Margot Godard | |
| Phase 1 Drillsite - Trainees | Peter Kelemen | Fatna Kourim | Marta Grabowska |
| Mariya Al Balushi | Michael Kettermann | Emily Kraus | Nadine Grambling |
| Shihab Mohammed Anwar Al Balushi | Hogyum Kim | Marvin Lilley | Rebecca Greenberger |
| Nidhal Al Jawari | Juergen Koepke | Elisabetta Mariani | Annika Greve |
| Zahra Al Lawati | Kentaro Kondo | Juerg Matter | Juan Miguel Guotana |
| Salim Ahmed Al Shahri | Louise Koornneef | Katsuyoshi Michibayashi | Morihisa Hamada |
| Hamoud Hamad Shamis Al Siyabi | Alissa Kotowski | Daisuke Morii | Uli Harms |
| Saif Masoud Alhmaimi | Fatma Kourim | Tomoaki Morishita | Kohei Hatakeyama |
| Monther Mohammed Almawali | Yuki KUSANO | Julie Noël | Károly Hidas |
| Al-Moatasem Khalifa Abdullah Alsalmi | Romain Lafay | Daniel Nothaft | Greg Hirth |
| Maisa Busaidi | James Andrew Leong | Luca Notini | Gilbert Hong |
| Chris MacLeod | Keishi Okazaki | Yuji Ichiyama | |
| Craig Manning | Betchaida Payot | Keisuke Ishii | |
| Catriona Menzies | Suzanne Picazo | Bjørn Jamtveit | |
| Katsuyoshi Michibayashi | Kalen Rasmussen | Max Jansen | |
| Dominik Mock | Laurie Reisberg | Kevin Johnson | |
| Tomoaki Morishita | Kaitlin Rempfert | Mary-Alix Kaczmarek | |
| Tony Morris | Mathieu Rospabé | Wolf-Achim Kahl | |
| Du Khac Nguyen | Tomoki Sato | Yuki Kakihata | |
| Toshio Nozaka | Ryoko Senda | Ikuo Katayama | |
| Keishi Okazaki | Alex Sousa | Peter Kelemen | |
| Americus Perez | John Spear | Kosuke Kimura | |
| Suzanne Picazo | Eiichi Takazawa | Delphine Klaessens | |
| Ryoko Senda | Yoshihiko Tamura | Frieder Klein | |
| Eiichi Takazawa | Damon Teagle | Juergen Koepke | |
| Yamato Tateishi | Alexis Templeton | Fatma Kourim | |
| Damon Teagle | Lotta Ternieten | Kanchana Kularatne | |
| Jessica Till | Ole Ivar Ulven | Benjamin Malvoisin | |
| Susumu Umino | Nehal Warsi | Juerg Matter | |
| Janos Urai | Tiange Xing | Manuel Menzel | |
| Yoichi Usui | Yuan Yao | Katsuyoshi Michibayashi | |
| Nehal Warsi | Wenlu Zhu | Tomoaki Morishita | |
| David Zeko | Atsushi Okamoto | ||
| Barbara Zihlmann | Phase 2 Drillsite - Logging | Keishi Okazaki | |
| Philippe Pezard | Dandar Otgonbayar | ||
| Ryosuke Oyanagi | |||
| Phase 2 Drillsite - Trainees | Gyuseung Park | ||
| Anwaar Al-Hajri | Betchaida Payot | ||
| Sara Al Wahaibi | Philippe Pezard | ||
| Mazin Al Salmani | Marie Python | ||
| Saif Al Shamsi | Mathieu Rospabé | ||
| Majid Abdullah Al-Jabri | Ryoko Senda | ||
| Ghassan Saif Al Saidi | Alexander Sousa | ||
| Almuhalab Khalifa Amer Al Taie | Eiichi Takazawa | ||
| Ibrahim Awad Al Sawafi | Akihiro Tamura | ||
| Yousuf Masoud Al Manthari | Damon Teagle | ||
| Dawood Hamoud Al Fahdi | Lotta Ternieten | ||
| Sulieman Al Sumri | Benjamin Tutolo | ||
| Zainab Mohammed Al Alawi | Ole Ivar Ulven | ||
| Hooriya Al Busaidi | Gabriel Theophilus Valera | ||
| Safiya Al Haddabi | Nehal Warsi | ||
| Said Al Mashrafi | Jon Zaloumis | ||
| Maqbool Al-Rawahi | Chang Zhang | ||
| Wenlu Zhu |