No ice-cream, no science
Today, we eat ice-cream in coffee-break before dinner just now!! Today, we will eat ice-cream in dinner before going…
Busy days for the Micropaleo folks on the JR!
Sei whales
Many whales are swimming aroud JR, and they must be watching us and our study! Huge body of whales, including…
Hard at Work
After preparing the sediment samples so that the microfossils can be examined, the biostratigraphers examine to species to find important…
Shall we dance?
Sample>rest>Sample>rest>Sample>BUSY
Every 1-1.5 hour, new sample are comming to deck!! We try to catch up them with quick but detail observation…
Time to start
We got the first and youngest sediment core samples!! Let's get started!! Itsuki
Can't wait for IT
In Anticipation
As the youngest member of the night shift, Kenji will be the first to collect the core catcher. We are…
No Core on Deck Yet!!
Are you ready to get the first sample? YES! I AM!!! Itsuki