While awaiting departure from Colombo to the first site of drilling, one of our shipbpard scientists – Dr. Rajeev Saraswat, a…

It is Good Friday here in Columbo and a public holiday although apparently a Bhuddist not a Christian one, which…

After boarding the wonderful JOIDES RESOLUTION a couple of days back, we have been going through the intense shipboard orientation…

Like many large science organizations IODP has its own special ways of doing things and naming cores and samples and…

We did have to wait until after lunch today to find the get on the bus and get underway but…