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Acknowledgments

The first edition of this book evolved out of collaborative efforts on a National Science Foundation (NSF) Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) grant (#0737335). The goal of our NSF project was to make the science of scientific ocean drilling research accessible to educators. We set out to write seven data‐rich exercises for the undergraduate classroom. However, we accomplished much more than we set out to do – we essentially developed an entire undergraduate course curriculum that explores the record of Earth's climate history. We had written a book. The first edition of this book would not have happened without the initial funding from NSF, as well as the support of the Consortium of Ocean Leadership, the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP; formerly the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program), and Antarctic Geological Drilling Program (ANDRILL). We are especially grateful to Leslie Peart, former education director of Ocean Leadership's Deep Earth Academy, who was instrumental in facilitating education and outreach for IODP for many years. It was her vision of the School of Rock Program (which still exists today) that seeded the collaboration of the author team. We are thankful to Cathy Manduca, director of the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College; her insight into the undergraduate curriculum, workshop development, and dissemination were valuable to us, as they have been to the broader geoscience education community. We are grateful to Eric Pyle, professor of geology at James Madison University (JMU) and evaluator of our NSF grant; his input gave us much to consider about teaching and learning. The first edition of the book could not have come together so smoothly without the skilled help of students Serena Dameron and Sarah Rangel, and graphic design consultant Jason Mallett. We thank students Allison (Ali) Dim, Kate Kaldor, and Casey Maslock for helping with some new content for the second edition. We greatly appreciate the constructive comments from colleagues who reviewed draft chapters from the first or second editions. Their scientific and/or pedagogical expertise helped improve the quality of the book, as did the feedback from our students who used draft versions of these chapters in classes and labs. We specifically thank: Stephen Schellenburg, Tom Cronin, Robert DeConto, Steve Petsch, Debbie Thomas, Jackie Hams, David Voorhees, Leilani Arthurs, Paul Holm, Bill Lukens, Kaustubh Thirumalai, Terry Quinn, David Elliot, Berry Lyons, Francine McCarthy, John Olesik, Jim Brey, Tom Gill, Steve Hovan, several anonymous reviewers, and the many faculty whom we have interacted with in professional development workshops that used this book. Very special thanks to graphic designer, Jess Lambert, for working with Kate Pound and the rest of the authors to develop the cover design for the second edition. We would also like to thank the editors, and the development and production teams at Wiley, especially Ian Francis, Delia Sandford, Anna Bassett, Kevin Fung, Marilyn Grant, and Vivien Ward for their guidance on the first edition, and Rosie Hayden, Andrew Harrison, and Karthika Sridharan for their guidance on the second edition. What fantastic, professional teams to work with!

This content of the book is based in large part upon practices and results of scientific ocean drilling, especially scientific work of IODP, and its predecessor programs (i.e. ODP and DSDP), as well as the scientific work of the ANDRILL program. While program names have changed through different funding cycles (and will again in the future), the international commitment to support scientific ocean drilling has advanced the research community's understanding of how Earth's climate system works. These insights are an important backdrop for understanding modern climate change, for testing models of future climate, and for evidence‐based science communication with educators, students, the public‐at‐large, and policy makers.