Sunday BBQ
The blessings of good core recovery at first site of X-355 are rewarded with a grand Sunday barbecue onboard the decks…
Core tsunami
Busy times on JOIDES Resolution. Our desire for core is being well met to put it mildly. Now we are…
Core flow continues
We have been continuously coring at the first site of IODP expedition 355 and so far it has been a…
First day of core flow
We have now been coring sediment in our first site for around 24 hours now and things seem to be…
Sieving the goodness through sediments for IODP expedition 355
As soon as we had the first core on deck early morning today, our biostratigraphy team has been putting their best foot forward…
Getting ready for the first ‘core on deck’
After few days of transit from Colombo, we are finally docked on top of the first site of Expedition 355…
Misty, moisty morning
We arrive on site today to begin our first operations in this region. Even before we had arrived the familiar…
Meetings, meetings, meetings and then a few more meetings
I had a fairly good idea of the work to be done onboard, as one of my colleagues Dinesh, sailed…
Almost at the site
Still underway and preparing for the core to come. Are now just to the west of the Chagos islands, around…
Underway at last!
After the long portcall and all the bureaucratic wrangling with customs we are finally underway. Shortly after 9 PM we…