Here on expedition 372, we have completed coring! Coring is only scheduled for one site and we cored to just over 188m below the seafloor. During operations, it was all hands on deck for the 40 or so hours of coring (an extremely short coring session for typical JR expedition)! Every 30-40 minutes, the driller would announce “Core On Deck!” over the intercom and everyone would rush to the catwalk to receive the core from...…

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I got to sit down with Susan Boehm, a marine technician on the JR from the United States, to learn about what a JR marine technician does. Watch the interview here and learn about STEM careers at sea!

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Earlier this year, East Coast LAB (Life at the Boundary) and GNS Science in New Zealand ran a competition for primary school students from the Gisborne region – just onshore from the EXP372 sites – to promote awareness of the Hikurangi plate boundary. Students had the opportunity to create artwork on styrofoam cups and I’ve brought the submitted entries on the JOIDES Resolution to send them to the seafloor. The pressure at the bottom of...…

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For all scientists wanting to make positive impacts and promote STEM fields to our future generations, let me tell you about a great program called “Letters to a Pre-Scientist” (http://www.prescientist.org/). This program sets up scientists as pen pals with students from under-resourced communities in order to inspire and empower them to pursue STEM careers. I highly encourage others to join it! This past year I joined this awesome program and received my first letter from...…

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I got to sit down with Imee Ebarat, a steward on the JOIDES Resolution from the Philippines and ask her a few questions about herself and her job. See her written responses to my questions below and learn about different careers at sea!   Please tell us a little bit about yourself… Hi! My name is Imee Rose Ebarat and I’m from the Philippines. This is my first time on board the JOIDES Resolution and...…

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I got to sit down with science party member Aggeliki Georgiopoulou, a structural geologist from Ireland, to learn about what a marine geologist does. Watch the interview here and learn about geology careers at sea! Aggeliki is originally from Greece and has translated her answers into Greek for us! Πες μας λίγα πράγματα για τον εαυτό σου: Με λένε Αγγελική Γεωργιοπούλου, όλοι με φωνάζουν Άγκυ, που είναι πιο εύκολο για τους μη ελληνόφωνους φίλους και...…

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I got to sit down with science party member David McNamara, a structural geologist from Ireland, to learn about what a structural geologist does. Watch the interview here and learn about geology careers at sea!

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I got to sit down with science party member Joshu Mountjoy, a marine geologist from New Zealand, to learn about what a marine geologist does. Watch the interview here and learn about geology careers at sea!

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Sometimes working the night shift has sparkly benefits! Lately, we have been going outside on deck at night to take advantage of most of the lights being off during our transit across the Southern Ocean and Tasman Sea, from Australia to New Zealand. The stargazing has been great, with beautiful starry skies ✨ and an easily visible Milky Way galaxy spreading across the sky – things that are difficult to see when you live in...…

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While we are still transiting from Fremantle to New Zealand, I got curious about navigation. How is the course planned? How do weather and ocean currents affect plotting a course? How has technology changed the way ships are navigated around the ocean? Thankfully, Second Mate Edmund Ancheta was kind enough to answer my questions again. His responses are paraphrased below. What are the different ways the ship’s track is planned and followed? The passage undertaken by...…

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