How do you weigh an accurate mass of a small sample on a moving ship?
When you move up and down in a lift you will notice that you can feel heavier or lighter. If…
The Adventures of Sid the sediment. How does Yuho use Sid to age sediment?
Sid is a particle of sediment eroded from the land and blown into the sea.
Kevin supervises the drilling operations on board.
KevinKevin, the ‘operations superintendent’, has been working for the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) for the last 15 years since…
Test Guam
Expedition 366: Preparation for the Start/Guam
The tropical Island of Guam in the Western Pacific is one of the Mariana Islands. Politically it is US-Territory and…
Can you spot the difference?.
Look carefully at the images of micro-fossils from the bottom of the ocean. Try and see the things that Tiegang…
John our second mate plans and navigates the route to all our sites.
John has had a long and diverse career at sea. This is his last expedition on theJOIDES Resolution (JR) before a…
Measuring the physical properties of the core.
Jennifer Wurtzel and Jian Xu are on the noon to midnight shift . They make physical propertiesmeasurements on the sediment as…
Jong-Hwa our expert in volcanic ash
Jong Hwa, from South Korea, is sailing as a sedimentologist. He specializes in looking for evidence of volcanic eruptions in…
The role of the sedimentologists.
JOIDES Resolution drills under the ocean into the seafloor to bring up long cylinders of material called core. Sedimentologists describe…