ALT Map of Antarctica and Southern Ocean surface current speed overlaid with drilling sites. Numbers note DSDP or ODP legs, or IODP Expedition numbers. Image credit: Alfred Wegener Institute

ALT Photo of a group of people in a workshop

ALT Close up photo of a couple of participants discussing topics of iodp

ALT A group of African Penguins sighted as the JOIDES Resolution leaves port. (Credit: Marlo Garnsworthy & IODP)

ALT An Adelie Penguin on a growler. (Credit Rob Dunbar & IODP)

ALT A penguin attempts to keep up with the ship during the transit from Site U1522 to Site U1523. (Credit: Giuseppe Cortese & IODP)

ALT Chinstrap penguins leap in and out of the water. (Credit: Marlo Garnsworthy & IODP)

ALT Photo from IODP Expedition 318. Photo is a panoramic view of the Antarctic coast with a dark blue ocean in the foreground and ice sheets in the background. Caption: View of the Antarctic coast from Site U1357. Credit Etiienne Claassen, IODP/TAMU.

ALT Photo from IODP Expedition 374. Photo shows a dark blue ocean with a field of sea ice in the distance. Caption: After several weeks of ice-free operations in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, winds from the east push a tongue of sea ice toward the vessel, forcing us to temporarily abandon Site U1524. Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO.

ALT Photo from IODP Expedition 379. Photo shows a dark blue ocean with an iceberg in the background and a breaching humpback whale in the foreground. Caption: Breaching humpback whale with an iceberg. Credit: Reed Scherer & IODP.

ALT Photo from IODP Expedition 382. Photo shows a dark blue ocean with an iceberg in the center with a chinstrap penguin on it. Caption: A chinstrap penguin contemplates a leap from a growler iceberg into the icy Scotia Sea. Credit: Thomas Ronge & IODP.

ALT Bathymetric map of the Ross Sea showing location of Site U1523 (yellow star).

ALT Penguin on a growler

ALT Three penguins on a large piece of sea ice

ALT Chinstrap penguins leap in and out of the water