Knock Knock Knockin’ on Basement Door
Drilling sets my teeth on edge. It conjures hours spent with dentists, orthodontists, and memorably, an endodontist who root canaled…
Cretaceous Candy Cane
Following my 12-hour shift and a quick workout on the elliptical machine in the JR’s gym, I am more than…
Co-chief Gabi’s Update Week Three
By Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben, Co-Chief Scientist for Expedition 392 We reached the location of our first drill site on Saturday, February…
We Came, We Saw, We’re Sawing
By Peter Davidson, igneous petrologist, Oregon State University When I had approached the JOIDES Resolution on the day we boarded,…
Paleo-Fashion and the Green Stuff
At today’s noon crossover meeting, representatives from each of the scientific teams presented findings from the past 24-hours to each…
Co-chief Gabi’s Update Week Two
By Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben, Co-chief scientist, Expedition 392 We have been on our way for 10 days now. The Agulhas Plateau…
150,000 Pounds of Stuck
I celebrated the New Year 2022 by accepting a multi-day meditation challenge called Getting Unstuck. Six weeks later, here I…
Co-Chief Gabi’s Update Week One
By Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben, Co-Chief Scientist for Expedition 392 This expedition is different from every other I have participated in. This…
Get In My Belly
While lab teams huddled today to draft methods chapters and discuss shipboard sampling plans for #EXP392, I made 2 new…
Day 6 in Quarantine – No Red-winged Starlings Allowed
Laurel Childress, who has a geochemistry background and works for the International Ocean Discovery Program at Texas A&M University, is…