In the mud for love
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end”….
Weekend Specials
It’s the weekend! That means everything proceeds as normal on board, except on-shore colleagues don’t read their emails, we don’t…
What’s an Earthquake?
Earthquakes may bring to mind fear and danger or perhaps confusion and curiosity. Some earthquakes can be very destructive, as…
Everybody wants to be a cat
When you hear “CORE ON DECK- CORE ON DECK” (it’s always twice, not once, not three times, just twice), you…
What is a subduction zone?
If you look for the position of the JOIDES Resolution on Google, you will find that we are actually drilling…
Today in Geology History: In Memory of Marie Tharp, Pioneering Oceanographer
Think of the first time you saw a map of the world. It probably looked like colorful patches mostly connected…
The best room on the ship
You can argue about this–perhaps the Core Lab, the Chem Lab, the Gym, one’s own cabin–but I think the best room…
It’s the case-ing !
Yesterday, we starded our next hole in a new way because this time, we want to drill until the sediment/basement…
Scales Are Not Just For Fish: Time and Space in Geology
Blog Series Installment #2: Space as Time When you make a layer cake, you lay the first slab of cake…
Attack the mud!
Deep hole often requires several changes of drill bits. When you drill the bottom of the seafloor, we can use…