Days on the JR
Mobile alarms, oh, it is already 23:20. ‘Wake up’, mind strikes and forces me to get up from the bed….
Drilling into the Depths of the Bengal Fan
Preparations are underway at our third and deepest site. Our target depth is 1500 meters below the seafloor, which is…
Tripod on a Boat?
As a photographer and filmmaker, I am a huge fan of the tripod. I’ve been using one since the beginning…
Our Coring Toolkit
A few days ago we broke the scientific ocean drilling record for the deepest APC core ever obtained (687.4 meters below the…
A Day in the Life of a JR Sedimentologist
I’ve never seriously studied sediments before. I’m used to working with “hard rock” – specifically basalt, which is rock that once…
Splitting Core…and Peering Back in Time
Once core has come into the labs, adjusted to room temperature and pressure (this can take a few hours), and…
Life After the First Core Came Up
Yes! Life suddenly became different. Many of us, mostly the scientists, who were sailing on-board the JOIDES Resolution as well as on…
Planning for Core
Today at 6 AM we reached the first site that we are going to core in the Bay of Bengal….
Shifting to Shifts
As we approach our first drill site, the scientists and technicians onboard the JOIDES Resolution have started moving to their…