Wonderful & Interesting to See @ Sea
Today is the official ‘Half Way Point or Hump Day’ on the JR. So this post will be a collection…
Stratovolcanoes: Just Our Type
Because students have been asking many questions about volcanoes the next series of blogs will be about— you guessed it— volcanoes. We are…
Ocean Detective: Andy Fraass
I'm a PhD candidate from UMass, where I study Micropaleontology and Paleoceanography. I'm really interested in figuring out how the…
LIVE Aboard the JR: Hello California and Florida!
Thursday students from Fairlands Elementary in California USA joined us aboard the JR for a day of learning during our…
What Are The Cores Revealing: Week 2 Science
The main objective of our core sampling was to characterize the eruptive history of Montserrat back to the early beginnings…
Location 2 off coast of Montserrat: More Cores!
This post is a summary of our progress thus far at our 2nd location only a bit further offshore still…
First Cores on Deck!
This post is a summary of our 3 days at our 1st sampling location closest to Montserrat where the younger deposits…
A note from Co-Chief Ishizuka
The following is a brief summary of the drilling progress during week one of expedition 340. From co-chief scientist O…
Why Montserrat?
We are sailing in the Lesser Antilles or West Indies of the Caribbean Sea. Scientists aboard the JR such as…
Day 4 @ Sea: My favorite memory for today
Today I visited the moon pool. This is one of the coolest places on the Jr. It is located on…