Distinguished Lecturer Specifications:

• Six Distinguished Lecturers are chosen for each academic year.
• Each Distinguished Lecturer is required to give 6 lectures during the academic year.  Due to the popularity of the program, many lecturers, however, agree to give more.
• The lecture topic should focus on results of IODP research. Synthesis lectures on broad topics associated with IODP’s scientific objectives (environmental change, processes, and effects; climate change; deep biosphere and the subseafloor ocean; and solid Earth cycles and geodynamics) are strongly encouraged.
• Lectures should be aimed at a broad geoscience audiences consisting primarily of graduate and undergraduate students and the scientifically literate public.
• Ocean Leadership will fund the speaker’s transportation expenses to and from each institution; host institutions will provide housing, meals, and local transportation for the speaker.
• After completion of the required lectures, Ocean Leadership will provide a small honorarium for the speaker’s participation.

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