InterMARGINS is an international and interdisciplinary initiative concerned with all aspects of continental margins research. It is designed to encourage scientific and logistical co-ordination, with particular focus on problems that cannot be addressed as efficiently by nations or national institutions acting alone or in limited partnerships.

    InterMARGINS seeks to achieve the above broad aims, within the terms of its Constitution, by the following means. These means are liable to be modified by the InterMARGINS Steering Committee from time to time according to changing circumstances. Principal Items (for priority attention):

• To maintain a dynamic and up to date web site that acts as an international centre of information exchange about continental margins research (for example; create country-by-country web pages, cruise maps, minutes of meetings, list funded projects, links to related sites etc.).
• To publish an InterMARGINS Newsletter twice a year.
• To initiate and/or sponsor international workshops and theoretical institutes and sessions at international conferences that are likely to advance research on continental margins.
• To exchange information and collaborate with international scientific bodies such as the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program or Euromargins.
• To encourage and financially enable, particularly in the case of less developed countries, collaboration between scientists from coastal states and principal investigators and their colleagues working, at sea or on land, on the continental margins of such states. Such collaboration could include participation in research cruises.

Secondary Items (to be addressed as and when resources allow):

• To set up Working Groups to investigate either a) specific technical problems of international significance related to margins research or b) the logistics of international collaboration and data exchange.
• To assemble and maintain lists of facilities or sea-going equipment e.g. submersibles, ocean bottom seismographs, or even ships, suitable for margins research that are available for charter, barter or exchange.

Other items:

    To run the InterMARGINS Office to meet the obligations outlined in Section 4.2 of the InterMARGINS Constitution and to service the above activities.