Imagine living in your house if you never did any maintenance.  Just walking around would eventually become hazardous as things…

Continuing on our journey through the departments supporting the scientific research, we come to the drillers.  On my shift there…

When I lived in Israel at the age of 15, it was before the internet, before cell phones, and in…

In order to physically get the core on deck, there are the rig floor workers – derrickmen, floormen and crane…

I’ve covered all the science that is being done on this expedition, so I suppose I ought to work backwards…

It was brought to my attention that I did not mention what I do miss the most while being out…

One of the school groups asked me what I missed most being out on the ocean so long.  I think…

I know from surveying my students at the beginning of every school year that their perception of scientists is that…

Finally, in the 11th hour, we got diplomatic clearance to drill in the territorial waters of Mozambique.  In fact, anyone…

So now we come full round back to the microfossils, final stop on our core section’s age correlation path.  As…