Knock Knock Knockin’ on Basement Door
Drilling sets my teeth on edge. It conjures hours spent with dentists, orthodontists, and memorably, an endodontist who root canaled…
150,000 Pounds of Stuck
I celebrated the New Year 2022 by accepting a multi-day meditation challenge called Getting Unstuck. Six weeks later, here I…
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Freeeeeee Fallin’ [funnel]
Imagine trying to get the end of a string into a thimble. But wait. You’re attempting this from on top…
Meet the Exp391 Lab Teams!
Now that we have core on deck, life on the JOIDES Resolution is wildly different. While quarantined in port, you…
To drill, or not to drill
The definitive guide to the drill sites of Expedition 391 In the original plan of IODP Expedition 391, six primary…
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Not all [hotspots] who wander are lost (Exp391 Science Objectives, Part 2)
This post was written by Maya and edited by JR scientist Kevin Gaastra. Kevin is a fifth year PhD student…
HOTSPOT WHODUNNIT (EXP391 Science Objectives, Part 1)
If you’ve spent any time looking at satellite images of Earth (for example, Google Maps), you probably noticed that the…
Relics of Climate Change Past May Help the Present
56 million years ago, as Greenland began to split away from Europe, huge flows of lava built up in what…
Digging for Diatoms
Take a deep breath. Do you know where that air came from? Yes, some of that oxygen was produced by…
In Search of Dinos
56 million years ago, Earth was a very different world. Most of Earth was covered in dense forests and all…