Countdown to coring
Expedition 356 is officially underway! And it’s looking hectic, even for an expedition like this. We’re in the middle of…
Goodbye land, Hello Dramamine
WE’VE SET SAIL! Hello everyone! You might have heard about me from a previous blog post by Tom. I’m Jisun…
The JR has Stairs
I have every intention of spending some time each day in either the exercise room, below deck, or on the…
Last night on (dry) Earth
Hi! I’m Tom Lang, one of the onboard educators for Expedition 356. If you follow the blog or twitter (@TheJR),…
Coccolithophores: Earth’s tiny workers (a poem)
(photos from http://ina.tmsoc.org<) Coccolithophores are single-celled, marine algae With shells made up of CaCO3 Most of them live in the ocean’s upper photic…
July 2015
May 2015
EXP-355: Thrusters Up! On the way to Mumbai, India
Finally, Expedition 355 after completion of its eight weeks of sediment and basement coring in the Laxmi Basin (Eastern Arabian…
Finally we have the basement from Laxmi Basin!
Finally we have it! Just a few hours are left in the winding up operations of Expedition 355 in the…
Sunrise patrol
Just one full day of drilling time left now before we have to start pulling pipe and packing up to…