The Biggest Core
Yesterday, by complete accident, we recovered the largest diameter core in ocean drilling history! Here’s how it happened… Our story…
The Magnetism of Rocks
We’ve all played with magnets before, but no one knows magnetism like the Paleomag team aboard the JOIDES Resolution. Shipboard paleomagnetists…
The Moho Mohawk (No coring = boring)
Over the transit, during our medical evacuation, the scientists on board were able to catch up on a bit of…
Art in the rock … What do you see in these thin sections ? EPISODE 1
Jiansong Zhang, our Chinese reporter, gives a new vision of these ‘dry’ olivine-gabbro!!! let’s see Courtesy of Bill Crawford, IODP…
Podcast Chapter 3: The Life of a Core
What happens to the rocks we collect from deep within the earth? One the latest episode, we follow the life…
Safety Before Science
From the outside it may seem that the JOIDES Resolution is all about discovering the story of Earth’s past, present,…
Let's Get This (Sampling) Party Started
Let’s Get This (Sampling) Party Started
Most people might think that once a core comes on deck the science begins, but even before that our scientists…
CORE DESCRIBERS : 3 teams, 3 specialties, 1 goal ! EPISODE 2 : STRUCTURAL GEOL.
STRUCTURAL GEOLOGISTS Mike, Jeremy, Oliver, Carlotta, Gustavo. Another team to describe the rocks. They are interested in the organization of…
You Asked, We Answered.
We successfully completed our reddit ask me anything (AMA), which turned out to be the busiest in IODP…