Stories From the Core

Stories From the Cores

Find out about some of the amazing stories we have learned from cores! Ice age megafloods! Dinosaur destruction! Life living under the seafloor!

Stories from the Cores is a series of video games that let players act like scientists studying cores drilled from the ocean and uncovering their secrets. Watch this trailer to see what the games are like. Scroll down to learn more about the science behind each game. You can download this game to play on you home computer here.

Die-nosaur!

Click here to learn more about the asteroid impact that ended the Age of the Dinosaurs and how the JOIDES Resolution has helped us learn more about what happened.

Deep Dark Life

Click here to learn more about how cores have helped us discover the amazing organisms living under the seafloor.

How are the characters in the deep dark life game like the real microbes that live under the seafloor? Find out the answers in the:

Stories From the Cores Deep Dark Life Drill Down Sheet

Mysteries of the Core game

Mysteries of the Core

Learn more about the cores that uncovered the secrets of the glacial floods in the Pacific Northwest of North America by clicking the links below.

WHEN AND WHERE WERE THE GLACIAL MEGAFLOODS? DID ANYONE SEE THE GLACIAL FLOODS DURING THE ICE AGE? Find out the answers in the:

Mysteries of the Core drill down sheet

Learn about the expedition that retrieved the cores that uncovered the secrets about the glacial megafloods.

Check out a research poster that explains some of the science of the Pacific Northwest glacial megafloods.