Coring on the Toe!
Where are we now? Site 3! Off the western coast of Costa Rica, in the Pacific Ocean. Our NEW coordinates…
Where are we now? Site 3! Off the western coast of Costa Rica, in the Pacific Ocean. Our NEW coordinates…
Photo courtesy of Yulia Vasilyeva Where are we now? Off the western coast of Costa Rica,…
Where are we now? We are off the western coast of Costa Rica. Our coordinates are N 8o36 min, W…
Last night we brought up a core that potentially holds the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). This morning at breakfast the…
Brian Romans is a geologist and assistant professor at Virginia Tech. He uses this blog to share photos from the…
As we begin Week 3 of Expedition 340 many guests have come aboard to join us from classrooms around the…
After a few busy days in Ponta Delgada, that beyond the loading and refueling operations included tours of The JR…
A crucial part of science is data collection. Repetition, duplication, same old thing, time after time after time. On the JR, everyone…
Today is a different kind of day on the JR than we’ve had in past 8 days. So the blog on…
In today’s blog, I’ll walk you through my sampling process- I realized I’ve shown some of the experimental methodology I…
No, not me! What is this blue line on me? The ship has some scientists on board who specialize in…
Today’s sunrise was magnificent! Each day seems to be offering bluer and bluer skies. The scientists are busier than ever…
The Joides Resolution is an amazing ocean research drilling ship. It is 470 feet long and 70 feet wide. The…
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 With any luck, we will have our first “Core on Deck” by this time tomorrow. It…
Twas the Night Before Christmas On the JR Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the ship The report…
Believe it or not, even scientific language has its own slang. In the micropaleontology world, the tiny microfossils called foraminifera…
When last we saw our story’s hero, the core, it had been through a traumatic experience. Okay, actually it’s not…
Chris Beveridge is a Physical Properties Technician on Expedition 323. He has agreed to share some of his experiences and…
Sev will document the daily process of a foram paleontologist on board the JR. He specializes in benthic (bottom dwelling)…
Hi again, after some really busy days, the sedimentologists now have a little time to calm down. Although new cores…