Myrmidons! Or, “Hooks and the people that use them.”
"Here Hector entered with a spear eleven cubits long in his hand; the bronze point gleamed in front of him…"…
From one Atlantis to another.. it’s a good time to remember the past!
The image shown is a photo of a framed document in the library of our own R/V Atlantis. The actual…
What’s a geomicrobe sled?
It’s not a sled that you might want with you on a snowy hillside. This is a piece of equipment…
Jason’s Tasks
Just as King Aeetes tasked the Jason of old to perform various quests to secure the Golden Fleece, our modern…
Thanks St. Joseph’s Elementary!
This morning we did our first live video broadcast of this expedition! Thanks so much to St. Joseph’s Elementary summer…
Reuven’s blog!
This morning I woke up at 4 a.m. eastern time to start my journey out to the west coast to board…
June 2011
Exploring the ‘Anatomy’ of Ocean Crust at Site 1256
In the ‘Superfast campaign’ of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) and the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) before it, four…
We’ve Been Adopted (by Melba-Melvin)
For days now (maybe closer to a week), come rain or shine, we’ve had a Swallow-tailed gull hanging around for…







