{"id":17555,"date":"2014-12-12T08:46:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T00:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/\/students-want-to-know-q-a-with-co-chief-steven-clemens"},"modified":"2018-09-25T10:11:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T02:11:14","slug":"students-want-to-know-q-a-with-co-chief-steven-clemens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joidesresolution.org\/students-want-to-know-q-a-with-co-chief-steven-clemens\/","title":{"rendered":"STUDENTS WANT TO KNOW: Q &#038; A WITH CO-CHIEF STEVEN CLEMENS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--break--><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n<style>\n<!-- \/* Font Definitions *\/ @font-face {font-family:\"?? ??\"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1791491579 18 0 131231 0;} @font-face {font-family:\"Cambria Math\"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;} @font-face {font-family:\"Comic Sans MS\"; panose-1:3 15 7 2 3 3 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:\"Comic Sans MS\"; panose-1:2 11 6 0 4 5 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-520090897 1342218751 0 0 447 0;} \/* Style Definitions *\/ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:\"\"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Comic Sans MS; mso-ascii-font-family:Comic Sans MS; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:\"?? ??\"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Comic Sans MS; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:\"Comic Sans MS\"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:\"?? ??\"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:\"Comic Sans MS\"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page WordSection1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --><br \/><\/style>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; text-transform: uppercase; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: #5C437A; mso-style-textoutline-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-colortransforms: &quot;shade=50000 satm=;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What does it take to lead a group of people on a ship. What are the expected traits? <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Grande';\">Leading an expedition like this at sea is all about planning ahead. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Grande';\">For example, scientists on the ship have a wide range of scientific experience, from master&#8217;s students to Ph.D. students, to post-doctoral researchers, all the way through full professors.<br \/>\nSome have sailed before, some have never sailed before. In this case, for every lab group, we have taken care to pair more experienced scientists with less experienced scientists so that no one is overwhelmed and all can learn from one another. \u00a0The easy part of leading a group like this is that every one here is very excited to be part of the team and is willing to work 12 hours a day for 60 days with no breaks in order to accomplish the expedition goals. Leading such a willing team is easy.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Sans MS';\">Another example of needing to plan ahead is that one never really knows what might happen at a given drill site. We have identified our drilling targets using seismic data that provides us a preliminary estimate of what we might find but there can still be surprises (both good and bad). In the event that a drill hole goes bad and we cannot drill it as planned we have back-up targets we can move to.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 115%;\" align=\"left\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; text-transform: uppercase; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: #5C437A; mso-style-textoutline-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-colortransforms: &quot;shade=50000 satm=;\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How<\/span> many cores are you expecting to find in the Indian ocean<br \/>\nregion? <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';\">We expect to recover a total of about 5.5 kilometers section (~3.5 miles) from six sites. This equates to somewhere between 500 and 600 cores<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; text-transform: uppercase; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: #5C437A; mso-style-textoutline-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-colortransforms: &quot;shade=50000 satm=;\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; text-transform: uppercase; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: #5C437A; mso-style-textoutline-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-colortransforms: &quot;shade=50000 satm=;\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0 How <\/span>big are the core samples?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>E<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';\">ach core is 9.5 meters (~30 feet) long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px solid; margin: 0px;\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/u344\/corelong.jpg\" alt=\"corelong\" width=\"390\" height=\"254\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; text-transform: uppercase; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: #5C437A; mso-style-textoutline-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-colortransforms: &quot;shade=50000 satm=;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; text-transform: uppercase; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: #5C437A; mso-style-textoutline-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-colortransforms: &quot;shade=50000 satm=;\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How can the core sample help you study the past?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 115%;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Sediments in the ocean build up layer on top of layer over time such that the oldest sediments are at the bottom and the youngest are at the top (at the sea floor). \u00a0The important point to know is that these sediments that pile up on the sea floor over time were actually created on land and in the surface oceans as the result of changes in climate (surface temperature, wind patterns and biological productivity). \u00a0\u00a0We can analyze the physical, chemical, isotopic and biological composition of the sediments and reconstruct the changes in climate<br \/>\nover time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 115%;\" align=\"left\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; text-transform: uppercase; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: #5C437A; mso-style-textoutline-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-colortransforms: &quot;shade=50000 satm=;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; text-transform: uppercase; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: #5C437A; mso-style-textoutline-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-colortransforms: &quot;shade=50000 satm=;\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Have you made any recent scientific discoveries? have you made any new discoveries?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>It will take several years of research back in our laboratories before we know the answers to the questions we have come here to answer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; text-transform: uppercase; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: #5C437A; mso-style-textoutline-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-colortransforms: &quot;shade=50000 satm=;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; text-transform: uppercase; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid; 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