A Successful Meeting with Japan!
For the last few days my Japanese colleagues, Norihito Kawamura and Yasuhiro Taguchi, have been working very long hours with…
Cementing finished!
The cementing has been completed. The crew are still pulling pipes, and I guess they won’t know how well they…
Cementing – right now!
Chatter on the ship suggests that operations have gone pretty well today. Some of my colleagues have summarized this process…
Nearing the Site
We should be arriving to Site U1301 any minute now. It will take time to get the ship stable and…
Oxygen Isotopes as a Proxy
A proxy is an indicator for something. For example, the density of a sediment core could be a proxy for…
Black Smokers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Katie Inderbitzen walked into class today dressed as a black smoker! It was clever and hilarious! She continued her lesson…
Paleoceanography? What Paleoceanography? Let's talk about ocean crust profiles instead.
Paleoceanography
The last day and a half involved a paleoceanography lesson. I plan to share the highlights in a blog tomorrow….
The Need to Give Thanks
This is my first official blog post from the JOIDES Resolution as a School of Rock participant. Subsequent blogs will…