Describing the Cores
Good morning or evening or whatever time it happens to be for you! I am sitting on the core table…
Core Deck – Describing the Cores
Good morning or evening or whatever time it happens to be for you! I am sitting on the core table…
Working in the core lab
Here we see Steve Hovan explaining a facet of core interpretation to School of Rock participants Sabreena and Emily. We…
Let’s Split!
When the core comes out of the ground it looks just like a big, giant drinking straw full of modeling…
Describing the Core
I have talked about how the samples are taken, and how the cores are split and tested for physical properties. …
Cutting the core liner
Hey Kids! Now you can see how the core liner, which contains all the rocks, is being cut into smaller…
Visual Core Describers: Sedimentologist & Volcanologist
When a core has been recovered and processed by a curator and core technicians, the next steps are imaging and…
A Journey from the JOIDES Resolution to NASA!
Featured image: The outside of the NASA HERA capsule where Herrmann will spend 45 days [Bill Stafford, NASA] When…
Ancient Icebergs and Polar Oceans
(blog posted for Sandra Passchier. Originally posted at: http://msuinantarctica.blogspot.com/) The team I am part of on board the Joides…
Sampling Sampler
After the core comes on deck at the catwalk and whole-round samples are taken for fossils and chemistry, it comes…
Trace fossils and faults
Most of the cores collected at the Site U1385 (SHACK-04) are composed by what the scientists call nannofossil oozes (i.e….
Labeling is Important
I don’t like removing these sticky labels; it always pulls my skin! As you can imagine, many cores are brought…
The Thin Blue Line
One of our petrologists, in this case Christopher Smith-Duque, must assemble the broken pieces of rock within the core in…
Correlate, Correlate, and Correlate
Hello everybody. I am Tats Sakamoto from JAMSTEC, Japan. I am one of the on board stratigraphic correlators who is…
Interesting Finds for Expedition 401
As we enter the final two weeks of JOIDES Resolution Expedition 401, we figured it was time to check in…
3.9.2 Haiku
3.9.2.haiku captures exploration and discovery as it took place hundreds of kilometers off the coast of Cape Town, in the…
Protecting Marine Life in Baffin Bay During Expedition 400: Part I
The Protected Species Observer Watch (PSO Watch) plays a vital role in seismic profiling of seafloor sediment layers in Baffin…
How Big is a Microbe?
How big is a microbe? Measuring around 1 micron, they are certainly not big enough to see with your naked…
A Brand New Mystery
Core from the seafloor is priceless, it is like a time machine in a plastic tube. Every time a section…
JR ACADEMY: HUMP DAY!
February 17, 2023 I am a participant for the JR Academy traveling from Ellensburg, WA where I…