Sector Non-profit, Scientific Community
	Partners Linux
	Solution Website, CMS
	Technology Mambo, Java, Linux, Apache, MySQL, HTML, CSS

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) quickly took on a unique identity in 2003 when it became an international scientific ocean drilling program with a 10-year science plan, sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Communicating the program’s complex purpose and structure—including its operations, management, governance, and key partners—became a priority and a key challenge.

Since then, IODP-MI, the program’s central management organization, has invested resources into building a web portal that spans the breadth of the ocean drilling community and probes deeply into partner sites to provide vital information about the program to scientists, news media, educators, and students.

To represent the diverse aspects of this organization, MadWolf designed a home page with rotating graphics that show different stages and facets of the services provided. Such a content-rich site necessitates a complex, yet intuitive, navigation system. Side bars feature common tasks and educational features, while upper navigation features organization-specific links. Site design was incorporated into the Mambo open-source content management system as a template that serves as a frame for the database-driven content.

Other new and notable features include:

1. Links to numerous IODP national offices and program partners;
   
2. News/media center;
   
3. Subscription page for the IODP-MI newsletter;
   
4. Access to program information generated in Japan, Europe, and the U.S.; and
   
5. An integrated, hyperlinked calendar for IODP events, meetings, expeditions, and other program elements.

Ongoing web development will result in a powerful search engine that will enable visitors to locate IODP scientific papers, scientists, and program elements globally.