The weather is very nice today and we should be arriving at our next drilling site about mid-day. Last evening…

There are several petrologists on board Expedition 329. For those who may not know, petrology is the study of how…

Peter Cassidy is the Camp Boss on Expedition 329, which means that he is responsible for the galley and staterooms….

We began drilling into basalt yesterday and we are continuing today. Since basalt is much harder than sediments, it is…

On Expedition 329, the microbiologists are interested in very tiny organisms referred to as microbes. As a group, they are…

We have reached site U1367 and are back to drilling. We arrived last evening and began lowering drill pipe down…

   We are scheduled to reach site 3 around 6 pm today; its offical name is U1367. Each hole in…

   Our four day transit is allowing the ship’s crew to do some minor maintenance work and it is providing…

Several of the cores from site U1366 had manganese nodules within the sediments. Diameters varied from about 5 cm to…