Exploring beneath the ocean floor.

The JR is a seagoing research vessel that drills core samples and collects measurements from under the ocean floor, giving scientists a glimpse into Earth’s development.

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Now At Sea

Expedition 341: S. Alaska Tectonics & Global Change
May 31, 2013 - July 29, 2013

Get ready to explore how global climate change, tectonics, and sedimentation are revealed in the Gulf of Alaska!

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Long-term Climate Change and Milankovitch Cycles

The Earth’s climate has varied drastically throughout geologic time. It’s hard to imagine that global climate can swing from being completely ice-free, as it was approximately 56 million years ago during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, to an Ice Age in a relatively short (geologically speaking) time frame.

I scream "Ice Cream!!"

During hard microscopic works, we can't wait for coffee-break and are looking for making ice-creams and eat them!!

Today, we ate ice-creams in coffee-break before lunch!

Itsuki