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Seamount Motion in the Ocean
Right now, the JOIDES Resolution is drilling on the second oldest seamount in the Louisville Seamount Trail. We would have drilled on the oldest one, except it is already on its way down the Kermadec...
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Why Starting a Relationship with a Hotspot is Going to be Complicated
Hotspots are like the strong, silent type. On the surface it is obvious they are very powerful, but it is difficult to find out what is going on with them underneath the surface, because there is no...
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Blowing Up Drill Pipe
Drilling two thousand meters below sea level into hard rock from a ship is not something you do on a lark. So when our drill pipe was stuck a couple days ago, it did not require a lot of guesswork to...
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Seamount Lasagna
The inside of a seamount is not the same from top to bottom. If it was the same, there would be no need to drill into it. We could just scrape some rock off the top of it and that would tell us...
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The Rise of a Volcanic Island
If you lived your life like a volcanic island, you would spend a long time growing without anyone knowing you were there, have an explosive debut into the atmosphere, continue growing but become much...
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The Decline and Fall of a Volcanic Island
Someday, seventy million years from now when the cockroach people are the dominant species on the planet, they are going to have their own marine research drilling program and are going to be drilling...
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Core Description to Kevin Bacon in Six Degrees
What the scientists are doing on the JOIDES Resolution right now may seem like a small, isolated event (particularly since we are out in the middle of the ocean where no one, except the bird that keeps...
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0.156 Years Before The Mast
As someone who has spent more than 99% of his life inside structures that do not sway back and forth rhythmically, where I was able to go outside and walk 100 meters in more than one direction and...
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Why Can’t the Louisville Hotspot Walk in a Straight Line?
Hotspots have been thought for a long time to be fixed underneath the lithosphere.read more
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Why a Magnetometer Can be a Hotspot Scientist’s Best Friend
The scientists’ ability to determine whether the Louisville hotspot has been moving inside the Earth is dependent on our paleomagnetists’ ability to see how the Earth’s magnetic field affects volcanic...
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The Liftboat Myrtle vs The JOIDES Resolution
The JOIDES Resolution and the Liftboat Myrtle are both being used as platforms for ocean scientific drilling, but, beyond that, they don't have a lot in common.read more
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Core description on land vs. core description at sea
The Chicxulub K-Pg Impact Crater expedition 364 scientists are in Bremen, Germany right now. They are describing the cores they drilled last spring in the Chicxulub Crater.read more
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Life at Sea vs. Life in Bremen
Today was the last day of core description for Chicxulub Impact Crater scientists who have been working at the University of Bremen in Germany. You would assume that doing scientific work on land for...
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