Finished!
Wow, the final week and a half of this cruise went by super quick. We sampled one more seamount and…
Why Microbiology Rules!!!
Jason Sylvan is a microbiologist on an expedition about deep-sea volcanoes. As our last expedition was all about microbiology, you…
Processing rocks for microbiology sampling
In today’s blog, I’ll walk you through my sampling process- I realized I’ve shown some of the experimental methodology I…
Near Disaster!
Life can be dangerous for those who work on the sea- especially if you are an iPod. I narrowly escaped…
How do we know our samples are clean?
Obtaining clean samples from seafloor drilling can be a challenge- the drilling itself pumps massive amounts of surface seawater into…
How fast do these microbes grow?
We know that there are microbes living in the rocks below the seafloor, but very little is known about how…
Be prepared for the unexpected
Seafloor drilling is a technologically challenging task, and sometimes things don’t go as planned. We have now twice run into…
Inductively Coupled What?!?
Here you’ll learn what the heck the subject of that picture is, and why it’s important to IODP Expedition 330. …
It's Cold in the Cold Room!
Intro to seafloor drilling
Seafloor drilling is quite a technological feat, as I can now attest from first hand experience. In today’s blog, I…