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CHIKYU MAIL NEWS Vol. 103, July 3rd 2008

This mail news service provides you with information
about the Deep Sea Drilling Vessel "Chikyu" and
science and technology for the IODP Earth exploration.

CHIKYU HAKKEN WEB SITE
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/chikyu/
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[Update]
*CHIKYU Data Base Set-up
You can easily get information about science data
collected by CHIKYU from web data system!

[Event information]
*IODP Campaign in Hiroshima & Science Cafe!
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*Information about the release of core data
by the CHIKYU 'Public J-CORES Data Center'

The Public J-CORES Data Center has been set up so
researchers can use core data samples collected
by CHIKYU expeditions. Only shipboard researchers
can use cores for up to one year after the expedition,
with the requirement that they have to publish 
the results in international journals. 
After the data release,everyone can access and
use the data. Also, data collected in NanTroSEIZE
Stage 1A will be released on February 5th 2009,
on the J-CORES data base.

You can download information about visual core
descriptions (VCD), micro-paleontological records 
of fossil occurrences, and X-ray CT Scanner for
each drilling hole. It is also possible retrieve 
the drilling hole locations by using Google Map
and Google Earth at the same time. 

Data regarding NanTroSEIZE Stage 1A has not yet
been released, but it is possible to download data
from other expeditions.

CHIKYU core data center
Public J-CORES Data Center as below
http://sio7.jamstec.go.jp/j-cores.data/

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*Let's go to the Science cafe in Hiroshima!
IODP Campaign in Hiroshima 
(July 4th and 5th) & Science cafe!

IODP Science cafe will be held in Hiroshima.
Did you know that the inside of the earth 
supports a biosphere as the surface of the earth?

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<Lecture information for students, researchers,
and the general public> 
Date: 4 July 2008, Friday 13:30-15:25
Place: Hiroshima University Central Library 
(Kagamiyama1-2-2, Higashi-Hiroshima City)
Theme: The deep biosphere  
 
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<Lecture information for the general public>
Date: 5 July 2008, Saturday 14:00-15:40
Place: Hiroshima Children's Museum
Theme: Living things under the bottom of the sea
Sponsor:
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Japan Drilling Earth Science Consortium
Co-sponsor:
Hiroshima University
Hiroshima Children's Museum
Backup:
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology-Japan (MEXT)

Visit the following web page for more details;
http://www.j-desc.org/m3/campaign.html

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<Let's have an interesting science talk with coffee!>
4th Science cafe
The microbe supports biosphere 
- Impossible to be alive without microbe! -

Date: 5 July 2008, Saturday  17:00-18:30
Place: Hiroshima Children's Museum
(Moto-cho 5-83, Naka-ku, Hiroshima-city
TEL: 082-222-5346 -- no parking)
Guest: Mr.Hiroyuki Yamamoto
(JAMSTEC group leader, Hiroshima University visiting professor)
Facilitator: Yasukazu Morita 
(Hiroshima University Postgraduate student),
Yuki Yoshioka
(Japan Drilling Earth Science Consortium)
Membership fee: Free
(drinks: pay as you order, or bring your own)
Capacity: 50 people
Application as below
http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/scicafe/
Sponsor:
Hiroshima University Graduate School Science research course
Co-sponsor:
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology,
Japan Drilling Earth Science Consortium

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CHIKYU HAKKEN web site introduces you to every
aspect of the Deep Sea Drilling Vessel "Chikyu" and
science and technology for the IODP Earth exploration.
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/chikyu/

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) is an
international marine research drilling program dedicated
to advancing scientific understanding of the Earth by
monitoring and sampling sub seafloor environments.
IODP drilling operations aboard the Chikyu are managed by
JAMSTEC through CDEX, Japan Implementing Organization.
http://www.iodp.org

"CHIKYU HAKKEN" means Discover the Earth in Japanese.
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