We're currently coasting through the gnarliest storm on the planet at a cool 5 knots. Thankfully, @TheJR is as seaworthy as they come. Waves are between 9-10 meters, and saluting us at the Bridge Deck windows.
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ALT The Expedition 397 group photo on the bow of the ship.
ALT Science party members work on samples from site U1488A in the chemistry laboratory: (clockwise from top left) Bryce Mitsunaga (Organic Geochemist, Brown University, USA), Lucien Nana Yobo (Inorganic/Organic Geochemist, Texas A&M University, USA), Sophie Hines (Inorganic Geochemist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA), and Jiawang Wu (Inorganic Geochemist, Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
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.
A surprising visitor delighted us at sunrise today; an eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) all the way out at the Shackleton Site U1385. Eagle owls are one of the largest species, growing up to a length of 75Â cm with a wingspan of 188Â cm! #exp397@TheJR
Welcome to my week of @IAmSciComm! I'm Laura Guertin (my students call me Dr. G) and I teach introductory-level Earth science courses for non-STEM majors at @PSUBrandywine. I have a passion for helping all people increase their scientific literacy and see how/why science matters.
ALT Photo of person in front of a ship, listing social media account handles
Magnificence coming up from the watery depths. It's mind-blowingly cool to split these and lay the first human eyes on these absolute stunners.
Rock saw is undeniably best saw.
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