Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists » coring http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:40:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Our First Coring Attempt http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/our-first-coring-attempt/ http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/our-first-coring-attempt/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:46:22 +0000 Rob Dunbar http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/?p=2159 JOIDES RESOLUTION, OFF THE COAST OF WILKES LAND, ANTARCTICA– Here we see our very first try at drilling a hole in the seafloor 3800 meters below the ship – the first real work of the expedition and the first time any attempt has been made to drill at this spot...]]> ABOARD THE JOIDES RESOLUTION, OFF THE COAST OF WILKES LAND, ANTARCTICA– Hello Everyone! Here is Video Blog #2 from IODP Expedition 318, Wilkes Land, Antarctica. Here we see our very first try at drilling a hole in the seafloor 3800 meters below the ship – the first real work of the expedition and the first time any attempt has been made to drill at this spot. There is a surprise ending! But not to worry – the expedition goes on!



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]]> http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/our-first-coring-attempt/feed/ 2 Lake Coring in Greenland & NYC http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/lake-coring-in-greenland-and-nyc/ http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/lake-coring-in-greenland-and-nyc/#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:32:38 +0000 Billy D'Andrea http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/?p=280 PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND– Lake sediments are perfect for investigating past environments and climate change. But when your study lake is frozen over and the sediments lie more than 100 feet down, extracting them takes some ingenuity. Here’s how we do it and what it might look like on 5th Avenue.


]]> http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/lake-coring-in-greenland-and-nyc/feed/ 4 Our Last Day at Sea http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/our-last-day-at-sea/ http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/our-last-day-at-sea/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:05:23 +0000 Maria Vernet http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches-new/?p=64 We have come to the end of our 16th annual LTER cruise, and what a wonderful one it was. Thank you to everyone who has followed our dispatches. Below are some photo selects from over the years, as well as our group photo.

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Our scientists drill on thin ice.
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Young Adelie penguin males showing off their rock piles.
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A beautiful iceberg arch.
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Humpback whales are often spotted around Palmer Station.
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An iceberg in the fading light.

One of the beautiful aspects of a research cruise is the growth of a sense of ‘family’ from the starting mixture of people you have known for years and those you have just met. Here is our ‘group photo’, taken after our last station and before we started to disperse to our various destinations. Some folks were on watch or could not leave to join us on the bow of the ship, and others (inset) were busy taking the picture – but all on board helped make this 16th annual LTER cruise smooth running and productive.

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The 16th annual LTER team.
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