To contribute to the achievement of ocean-related missions set forth in the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science, the Japan Geodetic Drilling Science Consortium (J-DESC), as part of the International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), is engaged in science that contributes to human society through the elucidation of the various mysteries hidden beneath the ocean floor, and aims to enhance literacy in marine science and ocean drilling science.

The development of multibeam bathymetry has enabled detailed imaging of seafloor topography and has greatly advanced ocean floor geoscience. In the future, it is necessary to expand the survey to areas of the ocean that have not yet been surveyed, and at the same time to become able to track temporal topographic changes before and after volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, and to establish a system for making basic data available to the public.

As of February 2024, the UN Decade of Ocean Science, which began in 2021, has 51 programs that were publicly solicited and 330 projects that are being put into action on the ground. One of the programs is the Cultural Heritage Framework Programme organized by the Ocean Decade Heritage Network, and one of its projects is "Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change: The Iconic Underwater Cultural Heritage of Stone Tidal Weirs ".