Rig Floor Reflections
One of the best things about being an Expedition 352 Education and Outreach Officer is the opportunity to learn about…
Quiet Shifts, Crazy Crossovers…
August 2014
Logging without an axe
Though structural geologists use our smaller sample of cored rock to form the larger picture of what its surrounding rock…
Rescue at Sea
It all started when a bird flew into one of the uprights of the derrick and fell onto the rig…
Reconstructing History
When you consider how much magmatic activity occurred in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana forearc, the core from which we intend to gain…
Outline of A Scientist’s (me…) Day on Shift
Geek Blog 2: Why boninites matter….
So, why is it such big “news” that we drilled into boninite (that’s them, in the teaser pic!), aside from…
Sorting Data!
Haunted by ghost core!
Well, it’s really not as spooky as it sounds. As it turns out, ghost cores are always a possibility when…