Kia Ora from Lyttelton! I’m thrilled to be one of three onboard education and outreach officers for Expedition 374: Ross Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History who will be blogging throughout our nine week journey. My name is Kim Kenny and my communication colleagues are Rosa Hughes-Currie and Agnès Pointu. The expedition is led by co-chiefs Laura De Santis and Rob McKay. View the full team here.  The JOIDES Resolution pulled into the port of Lyttelton,...…

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The Education and Outreach department of the United States Science Support Program for the International Ocean Discovery Program would like to wish everyone a happy new year. In honor of a successful and productive year, we’ve put together an infographic round-up of E&O related activities from 2017. We received many wonderful thank-you notes from the JR Live! ship-to-shore broadcasts, saw our social media channels steadily increase thanks to some high-profile expeditions, developed a training manual...…

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I got to sit down with IODP expedition project manager and staff scientist Leah LeVay from the United States to learn about what a marine geochemist does. Watch the interview here and learn about STEM careers at sea!

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My research topic is identifying the source and migration of fluids in marine sediments using radioactive iodine (129I) with a half-life of 15.7 million years. Half-life is the time it takes half of the atoms of a material to decay. Previous work with iodine isotopes (isotopes: atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons) has demonstrated that the way a fluid (e.g., water, gas) moves through sediment depends on the physical properties (e.g., porosity,...…

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NgaÌ„ mihi o te tau hou!! Happy New Year from the JOIDES Resolution! We had the pleasure of celebrating the start of 2018 just west of the international date line, in the first time zone!! 2018 is an important year for IODP because it represents 50 years of the scientific ocean drilling program. The program name may have changed over the years, but the goals and objectives have continued to be related to discovering Earth’s...…

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I got to sit down with science party member Katja Heeschen, a geochemist from GFZ in Germany, to learn about what a marine geochemist does. Watch the interview here and learn about geology and chemistry careers at sea!

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When I tell people I’m a marine geoscientist who gets a lot of information from drilling wells in the ocean, a few questions come up frequently. Two of the most frequent are “are you drilling for oil?” and “how does the hole stay open during drilling?”. The answer to both of these questions relies on safety assessment for scientific ocean drilling. This ranges from risk analyses before we drill to real-time safety monitoring during drilling....…

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Expedition 372 has been a bit of a different expedition for most of the technicians and crew in that we were only coring ~190 meters of sediment and were spending the majority of our time Logging While Drilling (LWD). Since LWD is not a common operation for the JR, I had some questions about what it’s like on the operational side as well as what the purpose of LWD is for the expedition 372 scientific...…

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I got to talk with Sandra Herrman, the JR Assistant Lab Officer to find out learn about what a lab officer does on IODP expeditions. Check out Sandra’s interview below! Tell us a little bit about yourself… My name is Sandra and I work as an Assistant Laboratory Officer on the JOIDES Resolution. I oversee a 12-hour shift during which I lead half a dozen technicians and orchestrate the workflow in the laboratories. What is...…

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An unanticipated need to send the JOIDES Resolution survey camera platform down along the drilling pipe at our second study site near the north island of New Zealand turned into a pleasant surprise for me. Once again, I would have video imagery collected to explore upon the cameras’ return! At this site we drilled in much deeper waters than our first site – approximately 2,650 metres deep. That’s almost 4 times as deep as our...…

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