Dada TV
When it comes to geologic time, I am as dense as the 70-plus-million-year-old basalt we just recovered on the Agulhas…
Co-Chief Gabi’s Update Week Eight
By Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben, Co-Chief Scientist, Expedition 392 We arrived on site on Sunday and immediately started to trip pipe. Time…
An Acquired Taste
By Allie Tessin, inorganic geochemist, Expedition 392 I’ve spent a lot of my time at sea donned in a white…
What’s In a Name?
I cut my journalistic teeth in a newsroom lorded over by a cigar-chomping editor who breathed down reporters’ necks on…
Co-Chief Gabi’s Update Week Seven
By Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben, Co-Chief Scientist, Expedition 392 The deep hole has been drilled, the target horizon was reached. A first…
Oh Fudge!
I like visiting the nook on the far side of the core lab where paleomagnetist Courtney Sprain hangs out. She’s…
Co-Chief Gabi’s Update Week Six
By Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben, Co-Chief Scientist, Expedition 392 The Transkei Basin. A deep basin southeast of South Africa. The seafloor at…
A Foram Fairy Tale
Once upon a time, on a faraway sea, Ashley Burkett was renowned for her fondness of foraminifera. Also known as…
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…