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<title>in transit</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naomi Barshi]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2016 03:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The horizon doesn’t change much as we transit through the Indian Ocean at 14 knots (25 kmph=16 mph–I’m told this is fast). We’re motoring at a bearing of 103º from port in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to our drill sites in the eastern Indian Ocean. We should get to our first site tomorrow morning. In the meantime,</p>
<p>we’ve been adjusting to life at sea on a research vessel. Safety briefings, life boat drills, lab tours, sampling methods, research protocol, seasickness—there is so much to learn and get used to!</p>
<p>A big adjustment is to shift to our assigned working hours. Everyone on the JR works 12 hours, with the other 12 hours free time to eat, sleep, exercise in the gym, watch movies in the TV lounge, or just hang out on the “steel beach” on the top deck of the ship. The scientists work 12 to 12—midnight to noon or noon to midnight. Some technical staff work 6 to 6, some daytime, some nighttime. Meals are 5-7 and 11-1, both am and pm. Each meal is breakfast for some, lunch for another shift, and dinner for others. Wishing someone “good morning” when you get up may be out of place since they’re eating their dinner. The scientists and educators have spent their first few days on the same daytime shift, but we’re diverging into our different groups as we get closer to getting core out of the ocean floor. Once we have core, we’ll be working hard at all hours to find out all we can about the nature of the sediments on the seafloor that make their way into the Sumatra Seismogenic Zone.</p>
<p>The scientists have been discussing how they will test their hypotheses and carry out their measurements, observations, and sampling. Keep an eye out for more details–for now it’s my bedtime!</p>
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<title>Hotspot Eruption in the Classroom</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Educator Ideas]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One advantage teaching science has over pretty much all other subjects is the ability to bring in cool demonstrations and hands-on activities to introduce and reinforce concepts. Here is a fun demonstration, created by Portugese teacher and 2009 <a href="http://www.oceanleadership.org/education/deep-earth-academy/educators/school-of-rock/">School of Rock</a> participant Helder Peirera, to show how a hotspot in the ocean can create a volcano (like the ones in the Louisville Seamount Trail). Materials and instructions are below, but if you want to see a video of what it looks like first, click on the video link with the “Hotspots and mantle plumes” activity on this webpage <a href="http://www.es-loule.edu.pt/biogeo/clube02_en.html" class="broken_link">http://www.es-loule.edu.pt/biogeo/clube02_en.html</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Hotspot Demo</strong></p>
<p>Supplies:</p>
<ul>
<li>Glycerin soap (available at a craft store like Michael’s)</li>
<li>Liter beaker</li>
<li>Beaker stand</li>
<li>Wire mesh (to allow beaker to rest on stand)</li>
<li>Sand</li>
<li>Water</li>
<li>Red food coloring</li>
<li>Alcohol lamp (or Bunsen burner, anything that produces a point of heat)</li>
<li>Denatured alcohol</li>
<li>Safety goggles</li>
</ul>
<p>Procedures:</p>
<ol>
<li>Prep work: Set up the beaker for the demo a day in advance to give time for the fine particles in the sand to settle. Cut up about 200ml of glycerin soap in the beaker. Place one drop of red food coloring on the soap. Place in the microwave for 10-20 seconds until it melts and covers the bottom. Let the glycerin soap cool and solidify, which will probably take a couple hours. Once solid, put about 500 ml of sand in the beaker so it forms a layer over the glycerin. Gently pour about 200 ml of water in the beaker over the sand and let it sit over night to allow particles to settle.</li>
<li>Tell the students they will be seeing a demo of how an underwater volcano can form. Show them the beaker. Tell them (or have them figure out) that the red layer represents the asthenosphere, the sand layer represents the lithosphere and the water represents the ocean.</li>
<li>Set up the beaker on the stand so it is in view of all the students but out of reach. The beaker should be 3-4 inches above the wick.</li>
<li>Have everyone put on safety goggles and then light the wick of the alcohol lamp (nothing dangerous will happen, but we still want to encourage safety). Tell them that the flame is like heat from the Earth’s core that rises to create a hot spot. This demo will take somewhere between 5 and 15 minutes before an eruption so encourage them to keep an eye on it, but you may need to have another activity going while they are waiting.</li>
<li>When the glycerin finally erupts, talk about how heat makes asthenosphere magma rise and expand. If the magma builds up enough pressure, it can break through the lithosphere as lava.</li>
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<title>Ship tour</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Pollard]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday they took us on a <a href="https://joidesresolution.org//node/8">tour of the ship</a>. It was simply amazing. We got to go all over the place – the bridge, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/OceanLeadership#p/u/30/6dNfvNmUYd4">the drill floor</a>, the engine control room, radio room and lots more. </p>
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<p>There is so much more going on here than meets the eye. I am impressed with the skill of the crew – I can’t even imagine all the things they have to juggle and keep an eye on to make sure everything here works as it should. Especially considering they can’t run to the store for parts or supplies! </p>
<p>Without the crew there would be no research, because we’d have no lights, no computers, no phones or even showers or food. Most of them do this for their fulltime jobs, so they are at sea six months out of the year, sailing on every other expedition. </p>
<p>The technicians who work with the scientists in the labs are on the same kind of schedule – rotating between expeditions. They are a great bunch of people as well. They keep the instruments in line, and make all the work the scientists need to do possible. What amazing teamwork, and I’m so proud to be a part of it!</p>
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<title>An unexpected port call…</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katie Inderbitzen]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Juan de Fuca CORKS]]></category>
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<description><![CDATA[Another note from Katie Inderbitzen, our CORK expert (and School of Rock instructor) aboard the RV Atlantis… Karma, it seems, is... <div class="read-more"><a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://joidesresolution.org/an-unexpected-port-call/" title="Continue reading An unexpected port call…">Read more<i class="fa fa-angle-right"></i></a></div>]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Another note from Katie Inderbitzen, our CORK expert (and School of Rock instructor) aboard the RV Atlantis…</em></p>
<p>Karma, it seems, is not being all that kind to us this cruise! Sometime during the transit out of Seattle the <em>Atlantis</em>‘s starboard thruster broke, leaving only the port and bow thrusters usable for dynamic positioning and maneuvering while launching the Alvin.</p>
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<p>This is a pretty big safety issue, but since we were already so close to Axial Volcano at the time, we did 2 dives there so that the biologists could collect specimens and get some of their scientific goals accomplished. Then, after getting a not-so-favorable weather report for the area, we decided to come into port in Astoria, Oregon…which is where I am now!</p>
<p>Fortunately the parts we need should be here by morning, so the engineers on board are confident that we should be back out on Juan de Fuca in a few days. Once we get back out we’ll immediately start servicing the CORKs: we’ll download all the accumulated data from the past year and replace the instrument strings that hang down inside 1301A and B.</p>
<p>In the meantime, however, the CORK group on board has had LOTS of time to prepare our gear and get ready for our dives. Andy Fisher, Dustin Winslow, and I spent time calibrating the thermistors (temperature sensors) that will go on the instrument strings. This involved using a very accurate temperature probe and a water bath that we put the thermistors in. After recording data at different temperatures, we’re able to calculate how accurate the thermistors are. This is really important to know because all our data could be rendered useless if a thermistor isn’t performing well.</p>
<p>After calibration, we attached the thermistors to the Spectra cable that will hang down the hole. This uses a lot of plastic zipties that we weave through the cable. Then the thermistor gets wrapped in a woven Kevlar jacket to protect it from rubbing against the side of the hole (or any renegade gun-toting fish…Kevlar is what they make bulletproof vests out of!). After we put all the thermistors on the Spectra, we coiled it all up so it’s ready to use when we deploy the new instrument strings.</p>
<p>One other exciting thing is that Geoff Wheat’s geochemistry group has been producing some short videos about the cruise so far! They’ll be updating the channel every few days, so make sure to check back!</p>
<p>Stay tuned for more! And feel free to send along any questions you have!<br />
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<title>Checking on the Juan de Fuca CORKs</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katie Inderbitzen]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from the northeastern Pacific Ocean! I’m not writing from the JR today, but from the <em>R/V Atlantis</em>, support ship for the Alvin submersible. If you were following blogs during the School of Rock expedition, you might remember that a very important part of that cruise was to dump cement around several seafloor observatories (CORKs) that were leaking. Well, it’s been over a month since we ended that cruise, but that means it’s time to look in on the instruments to see if what we did worked! We’ll dive 2600m to the bottom of the ocean, download data from our instruments, and see if the cement has successfully cut off flow between the formation (porous basalt) and the open ocean.</p>
<p>We just left Seattle this morning, so our first dive will be on Saturday. We won’t get to dive on the CORKs until several days after that, but I’ll be sure to keep you posted on what we’re working on in the meantime!</p>
<p>If you have questions, feel free to send them along! The science party spans many disciplines, so if I can’t answer your question, I’m sure I can find someone who will!<br />
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<title>Last on-boat blog</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Abernathy]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Cleary]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Wow is not good enough.</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Hurd Finnegan]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow is not good enough. I really do not have the words to describe today. We were to be in the galley early this morning for breakfast. We had all put our names in a basket to be drawn out for a prize the day before.</p>
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<p>Anyway the only morning I depended on an alarm clock to wake me up the thing did not work properly. Anyway Dudley and I were scrambling around trying to both get dressed in the matchbox. I think I got my leg in his shirtsleeve once. Anyway we got to breakfast just on time and after we had set down to eat the phone rang. It was the Captain and he wanted to talk to me.</p>
<p>It seems as though my name was drawn from the hat and my treat was to go up and help get the <em>JR </em>underway from our station to head in to Victoria. Now I have driven a lot of things, from matchbox cars to school buses to big trucks, but I had never operated anything on the water bigger than a canoe. I get up there and just about all of the Rockers joined me on the bridge. Captain Pete went over all the controls with me and told me exactly what we were going to do.</p>
<p>One thing that I really found of interest was that the bridge crew still kept paper charts. Even with tens of thousands of dollars of navigation equipment, a paper chart, pencil and a triangle were the failsafe for navigation. It is a good lesson for my son and the other scouts in our troop. Even if you have a really cool GPS you still had better be able to do it the old fashioned way.</p>
<p>Well as the time approached to leave station I found myself repeating the prayer that Alan Sheppard prayed just before he went up in the first manned Mercury mission. “Oh God, please don’t let me mess up.” Rest assured that Captain Pete was very close at hand to make sure that it did not happen. We are now just outside the Strait of Juan de Fuca and our journey is just about over. As the end draws near I find that the frustration and weariness I was feeling at the end of the last school year is gone, and a profound excitement is beginning to grow for the upcoming school year. This will not be my last blog here. After we leave Victoria, I am off on a new adventure to climb Mt. St. Helens. I’ll let you know how that turns out later.<br />
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<title>Return to operations</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jean-Luc Berenguer]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Well, it is time to come back to the coast.</p>
<p>Hurd, one of the Rockers and the Captain Pete of JR turned on the ship this morning.</p>
<p>Cap : 70 deg / North East</p>
<p>We are expected in Victoria (BC) harbour sunday morning for the sunset.</p>
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<p>It was also a special day, the independance day … a lot of colors in the mess and a very nice lunch.</p>
<p>The JR’s kitchen is fantastic. Bravo !</p>
<p>We approach the end of the expedition 321 T, a true success for the JR’s team.</p>
<p>It is time to clean the ship, the lab, the conference room …and soon to pack our backpack.</p>
<p>I enjoy a lot to become a school rocker.</p>
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<p>A great moment : Hurd and Pete, the JR’s captain</p>
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<p>The mess : a wonderful staff</p>
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<p>Upstairs / downstairs : with my new SOR’s T shirt<br />
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<title>Dry Weight</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Cleary]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday we got a little tour of the dynamic positioning unit of the ship. The Chief Mate Terry Skinner told us about the 12 thrusters that get used during drilling operations to hold the ship in place. The ship also points the bow into the winds to stabilize it. The instrumentation panel is very impressive and they have a back-up instrument for everything, just in case anything goes wrong.</p>
<p>I asked Terry Skinner about what parts of his job make him think, “I can’t believe I am doing this!” and he told me about measuring the dry weight of the ship. When the <em>JR</em> went under rennovation, a lot of things needed tallying so that it would be buoyant once it got out of the dock. One important measurement for achieving buoyancy is knowing the dry weight of the vessel. So, on this big scientific vessel, someone has to go around and weigh every single thing contained in the ship (from the cabinets and bunks and instruments down to boxes of bolts in the machine shop).</p>
<p>The weights have to be logged and their position measured in the ship, so that the center of gravity can be determined. Terry says it takes him about 3 weeks to do such a job. I can barely imagine how much work that would be. His favorite part of working on the <em>JR</em> is going into and out of ports. I hope Terry will be having a good day tomorrow, as we will be landing in Victoria soon, and I don’t think there is any call for a dry weight measurement of the ship anytime soon…<br />
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