Everything is peachy – Mon, Apr 17
If you show up to this blog and the posts are not in sequence, or text and photos are plain…
First cores, woosah! – Sun, Apr 16
We got our first cores today and we all went a little crazy with excitement. Cores are material from beneath…
The crazy little thing called time – April 15 – Saturday
I am on the midnight to noon shift. After we departed Hong Kong at 9AM, we had meeting and a…
Sediment tasting and licking rocks
Today the labs of the JOIDES Resolution have come alive again! The catwalk, where the cores are delivered after they…
Set Adrift – Apr 14 – Friday
Leaving port, was a “fat guy in a little coat” experience. The ship’s crew and engineers are magicians. Ok, we…
Time out on Lamma Island – Apr 13 – Thursday
Today was our last day docked in Hong Kong – last day to see trees, other faces besides our own,…
Expedition 368 begins and it is a very BIG DEAL!
Hello and welcome to the JOIDES Resolution Expedition 368! If you are just joining us you should know that this…
Hey onshore Folks! – Apr 12 – Wednesday
Welcome to my blog on life at sea onboard the research ship, the JOIDES Resolution (JR). After a cozy 16.5…
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Education – Contest for schools/Concorso per scuole: we have a winner!
The question was: when will we reach the basement in the site 1500? Officially we hit the basement at…
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Behing the science – Drilling, casing, coring and, sometimes…LOGGING!
In this post we will discover another operation very important for collecting useful data about our holes: the logging. …