Core tsunami
Busy times on JOIDES Resolution. Our desire for core is being well met to put it mildly. Now we are…
First day of core flow
We have now been coring sediment in our first site for around 24 hours now and things seem to be…
Misty, moisty morning
We arrive on site today to begin our first operations in this region. Even before we had arrived the familiar…
Almost at the site
Still underway and preparing for the core to come. Are now just to the west of the Chagos islands, around…
Underway at last!
After the long portcall and all the bureaucratic wrangling with customs we are finally underway. Shortly after 9 PM we…
A Long Good Friday
It is Good Friday here in Columbo and a public holiday although apparently a Bhuddist not a Christian one, which…
Orientation
Like many large science organizations IODP has its own special ways of doing things and naming cores and samples and…
Finally onboard
We did have to wait until after lunch today to find the get on the bus and get underway but…
Packing up and ready to go
One more day to go and I will be on the airplane headed to Colombo, Sri Lanka. Prisoner of American…