Time at sea: 4 weeks 2 days

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Slow Days and Bad Weather, and The Promise of Better

Submitted by Travis Hayden on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 17:51

February 8th 2010

Sometimes you get to core, sometimes you do not.

The last two days, we have not. We finished at the Adelie Drift site, and headed along the coast to get to our next drillsite. While we were doing this, we dropped below the Antarctic Circle for a bit!

Hey, look, it is Antarctica!

Submitted by Travis Hayden on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 14:29

February 5th, 2010

So yesterday we set off for a new site. The last site we were at was over 330 kilometers (over 200 miles) off shore. Now we are 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) offshore. In fact, here is Antarctica!

SEEING THE PROMISE LAND

Submitted by Stephen Pekar on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 17:44

We are now on site drilling the high resolution cores. It is hectic work, with everyone running about. I will write later but wanted to share some pics of our first views of the icy continent of Antarctica.

Getting Deep in the Greenhouse World

Submitted by Stephen Pekar on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 17:33

Blog entry 02 03 10: Getting Deep in the Greenhouse World

Life on the JR

Submitted by Stephanie Carr on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 23:09

Dear World,

I don’t feel like writing much today ... but I do feel like posting pictures. So here is a picture show from my most favorite day so far....Last Sunday.

Done Drilling the First Site and Splitting a Core

Submitted by Travis Hayden on Sun, 01/31/2010 - 17:22

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

We just finished hauling up the last core from this site. Final total is over 1000 meters of drilling (that is over 3,000 feet, or more then ½ a mile!), and 9 days in a single spot.

1 year Anniversary since we left Singapore

Submitted by Heather Barnes on Thu, 01/28/2010 - 23:31

WOW 1 Year Since the ship left Singapore - what an adventure!

Since Singapore last year we have sailed from Singapore up to Hawaii, then East to Canada, then West to Japan, then South to Australia and New Zealand and then way way South to Antarctica.

Onward to the Second Site and Finding Forams

Submitted by Stephen Pekar on Thu, 01/28/2010 - 23:11

The first forams!! 

Once all of the commotion died down, the paleontologists went off with their samples, washing the sediments or making smear slides (smear slides are made by taking a little bit of sediments and smearing them thinly onto a slide) and then looking through microscopes looking for the tiny little shells made by microscopic organisms.