Helping hands
Today we are continuing to deepen our drilling at Hole U1456C but in the meantime we should not forget some…
All change
What a difference a day makes. This time yesterday we were getting quite deep, more than 400 m below the…
Sizzling in the sun
It’s the end of our first week at sea and because it is Sunday we are having a deck barbecue…
Core tsunami
Busy times on JOIDES Resolution. Our desire for core is being well met to put it mildly. Now we are…
First day of core flow
We have now been coring sediment in our first site for around 24 hours now and things seem to be…
Sieving the goodness through sediments for IODP expedition 355
As soon as we had the first core on deck early morning today, our biostratigraphy team has been putting their best foot forward…
Misty, moisty morning
We arrive on site today to begin our first operations in this region. Even before we had arrived the familiar…
Meetings, meetings, meetings and then a few more meetings
I had a fairly good idea of the work to be done onboard, as one of my colleagues Dinesh, sailed…
Almost at the site
Still underway and preparing for the core to come. Are now just to the west of the Chagos islands, around…
Underway at last!
After the long portcall and all the bureaucratic wrangling with customs we are finally underway. Shortly after 9 PM we…