The crucial role of ice shelves
What is an ice shelf? Ice shelves are floating tongues of ice that extend from grounded glaciers on land. The…
What will happen to sea level when this huge iceberg melts?
……………nothing!! You can try to use a very simple analogic model to understand. Let’s take few ice cubes (they…
Fulbright student Imogen Browne
Imogen Browne is a Fulbright student from New Zealand doing her Ph.D. in marine science at the University of South…
The complex interactions between ice and oceans
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the worlds largest ocean current, and the only current that flows completely around the…
JR Profiles Episode 15: Katja Heeschen, Geochemist
I got to sit down with science party member Katja Heeschen, a geochemist from GFZ in Germany, to learn about…
Guest blog: Brandon Dugan, Marine Geoscientist
When I tell people I’m a marine geoscientist who gets a lot of information from drilling wells in the ocean,…
Logging While Drilling (LWD): Operational details and scientific objectives
Expedition 372 has been a bit of a different expedition for most of the technicians and crew in that we…
Survey Camera Sights: Part 2
An unanticipated need to send the JOIDES Resolution survey camera platform down along the drilling pipe at our second study…
Guest Blog: Aggeliki Georgiopoulou, Sedimentology
When I was in college studying Geology, in my hometown in Patras, Greece, I was fortunate to have a great…
JR Profiles Episode 12: Bubba Attryde, Toolpusher/Coring Technician
I got to sit down with Bubba Attryde, a toolpusher and coring technician on the JR from the United States,…