The End is Just the Beginning
We’re coring our last hole of our last site of our last week of expedition 356. Everyone’s a little tired…
What a way to make a living!
Whenever I do a school broadcast, I get a lot of questions about working on the ship. How do we…
Pups, Snakes, Rabbits, and Other Useful Tools.
Everybody likes animals. We draw parrots on our kites, we watch dolphins in the ocean, and we eat the odd…
Once in a Blue Moonpool
A few days ago we were lucky enough to test out the Subsea Camera System, which can be attached to…
A Blog on the Log of the Hole at the Bottom of the Sea
We’ve been talking a lot in this blog about the cores we recover, but they’re not the only source of…
A helideckload of fun!
We’ve finished site U1462, there’s no core coming up, and we haven’t seen land or had a day off for…
A Total Amateur's Guide to Core Description
Charts and Crafts
Last week, I gave you a quick tour of the JOIDES Resolution engine control room, where the ship’s functions are…
Geochemists: Living in the Lab of Luxury
Most of the scientists are based up on the core deck, where they have easy access to the sediment as…
Mechanical Mystery Tour
The JR has pulled into site U1462, and while we wait for the first cores to come up, the scientists…