Following the IODP INVEST Workshop, several members of the IODP community, including Benoît Ildefonse, Chair of the Deep Earth Sampling Working Group, and Catherine Mével, former member of the InterRidge Steering Committee, were interviewed by the journal Nature about the future of ocean drilling. Link to the news item "Experts draw up ocean-drilling wish list" in Nature, Vol. 461, 1 Oct. 2009, p. 578-579: http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090930/full/461578b.html
Also, please find a recent Editorial on ocean drilling, "An epic voyage in the making," published in Nature Geoscience, Vol. 2, Nov. 2009, p. 733:
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v2/n11/full/ngeo669.html
