Logging While Drilling (LWD): Operational details and scientific objectives

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…