Paleomagnetism for Rookies-Part one
Everybody knows that Earth has magnetic properties and has seen a compass needle moving towards the north. It’s due to…
The night has disappeared!!
I am on the midnight to noon shift so every day, I start my work at midnight. And, yeah, it’s…
What will happen to sea level when this huge iceberg melts?
……………nothing!! You can try to use a very simple analogic model to understand. Let’s take few ice cubes (they…
Episode 1: Reaching the mid-Miocene
Episode 1: Reaching the mid-Miocene Drilling at the first site is complete. Scientists looked at cores that revealed the presence of…
Ship tour with David Harwood
Diatom specialist and experienced Antarctic scientist David Harwood gives a 5min tour of the JOIDES Resolution, from the bridge to…
Fulbright student Imogen Browne
Imogen Browne is a Fulbright student from New Zealand doing her Ph.D. in marine science at the University of South…
Making it through the ice
A lot has happened in our transit from New Zealand to Antarctica. We crossed the Antarctic Circle and the Prime…
The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
Our expedition to the Ross Sea echoes the journeys of Antarctic explorers more than a century before us. This very…
The complex interactions between ice and oceans
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the worlds largest ocean current, and the only current that flows completely around the…
First core on deck
We made it to our first drill site! Because we are drilling about 500 metres (that’s 1,600 ft) and the…