As of June 2009, 8 full-time professors, 6 researchers and 10 support staff members are doing research in Earth system science and education at this center and belong to the Faculty of Science and Graduate School of Science of the Kochi University.
Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research was established in October 2005 at the same time as the start of international operation of the deep-sea drilling vessel “Chikyu”, as the fifth base of JAMSTEC in Japan.
The Institute consists of three research groups, a science support group and a general affairs division, and is mainly doing physical, chemical and microbiological analyses and research using core samples, and storage and curation of core samples.
