Ocean of Extremes
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A Day in the Life at Sea
Two months at sea, collecting drill cores in the stormiest ocean on the planet, can feel both extremely epic and fairly routine.
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WOW-ing and RAW-ing in the South Pacific
Despite all the “Waiting on Weather” and “Running Away from Weather,” the expedition recovered exciting new sedimentary climate records in the remote and notoriously stormy Southern Ocean.
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How a Drilling Ship Pulls Cores From 2.5 Miles Below the Sea
Recovering ancient seafloor sediments requires complicated machinery and a skilled crew.
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Wiggle Wrangling on a Core-Drilling Ship
A scientist explains how she lines up wiggles on a screen to recover the missing layers in cores drilled from the bottom of the ocean.
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After a Long Wait, Expedition 383 Drills its First Seafloor Core
It took six days to sail to Point Nemo, the most inaccessible point of the ocean on this planet, to drill a sample from the ocean floor.
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New York City to Punta Arenas: The Beginning of Our Journey
Scientists aboard the R/V Joides Resolution prepare to set sail into the Southern Ocean.
