Just swell!
Some people from home have asked us what life aboard the ship is like. Naomi posted about that earlier, and…
Biscuits and Gravy
Drilling can alter the core in a variety of ways. This morning, the core on the description tables is made…
Scales Are Not Just For Fish: A Blog Series about Time and Space in Geology
Blog Series Installment #1: Introduction One of the joys of geology is that we study really big things like mountains and really…
Tell me who you are, I will tell you where do you come from
There is an important question to answer for the sedimentologists: where do the sediments come from? One way to answer…
A few tidbits about life on the JR
Aside from the gentle rocking motion, the 12-hour shifts, the vacuum toilets, the noise of 12 thrusters keeping us in place, and…
Fifty shades of grey
When I saw this core in the core lab, I immediately asked myself (which I am doing all the…
So, what exactly is a diatom paleontologist…?
Hi, everyone! I will be sporadically blogging about my time sailing on the Joides Resolution as a diatom paleontologist during…
We reached the sea floor!
The drilling process is controlled from the rig floor. The pipes are stored in a large rack, located aft of…
Mosquitoes the size of what?!
A few of us realized recently that it’s hard to picture the JOIDES (a 143 m ship) lowering a drill…
Sampling Sampler
After the core comes on deck at the catwalk and whole-round samples are taken for fossils and chemistry, it comes…