35 Books and Reports
For further exploration about scientific ocean drilling’s past, present, and future, we encourage you to check out these resources.
Books
Powell, J.L. (2024). Mysteries of the Deep: How Seafloor Drilling Expeditions Revolutionized Our Understanding of Earth History. Massachusetts: MIT Press. 274 pages. ISBN: 978-0-262-04892-7.
Truswell, E. (2019). A Memory of Ice: The Antarctic Voyage of the Glomar Challenger. ANU Press. 220 pages. ISBN (print): 9781760462949. [open access – book also available for free at JSTOR – review of the book in Oceanography]
Hsu, K.J. (1992). Challenger at Sea: A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science. Princeton University Press. 417 pages. ISBN: 978-0-691-63764-8.
Bascom, W. (1961) A Hole in the Bottom of The Sea: The Story of the Mohole Project. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 352 pages. ISBN: 978-0-385-00711-5
Book Chapter
Shor, E. (1985). A chronology from Mohole to JOIDES. In: E.T. Drake and W.M. Jordan (Eds.), Geologists and Ideas: A History of North American Geology (DNAG – Decade of North American Geology, Centennial Special Volume). Geological Society of America. pp. 391-400. ISBN: 0813753015. https://doi.org/10.1130/DNAG-CENT-v1.391
Reports
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2024). Progress and Priorities in Ocean Drilling: In Search of Earth’s Past and Future. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/27414.
National Research Council. (2011). Scientific Ocean Drilling: Accomplishments and Challenges. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/13232.
National Research Council. (1989). Symposium Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Demonstration of the Feasibility of Deep Ocean Drilling: Proceedings of a Symposium, September 22, 1986, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/19049.
National Research Council. (1982). Options for Scientific Ocean Drilling. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/18523.
