Laurel Childress (Expedition Project Manager, IODP JRSO) celebrates her birthday with birthday cake and a JOIDES Resolution birthday card. Happy birthday Laurel! (Credit: Erick Bravo, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: 071_exp400_0735.jpg]
Laurel Childress (Expedition Project Manager, IODP JRSO) wakes up to a decorated office for her birthday celebration on the JOIDES Resolution. (Credit: Erick Bravo, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: 072_exp400_0748.jpg]
A beautifully colored sky after sunset. (Credit: Libby Ives & IODP) [Photo ID: 073_exp400_C0226.jpg]
Oscar Cavazos (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO) places a core section into the laser engraver as part of the section labeling process. (Credit: Erick Bravo, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: 074_exp400_0766.jpg]
Zenon Mateo (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO) writes the core and section numbers on endcaps as part of the section labeling process. Note that half of the numbers and letters are upside down; these will be right side up when the core section is split into working and archive halves. (Credit: Erick Bravo, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: 075_exp400_0770.jpg]
Yancheng Zhang (Physical Properties Specialist/Stratigraphic Correlator, Sun Yat-Sen University, P.R. China) works on the Whole-Round Multisensor Logger (WRMSL) track system, which measures magnetic susceptibility, density, and P-wave velocity of whole-round core sections. (Credit: Erick Bravo, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: 076_exp400_0760.jpg]
Rachael Gray (Inorganic Geochemist, Kent State University, USA), left, and Heike Zimmermann (Microbiologist/Observer, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark), dressed to avoid contamination, take a sample to be analyzed for sedimentary ancient DNA. (Credit: Lisa Crowder & IODP) [Photo ID: 077_exp400_C0225.jpg]
Helen Coxall (Micropaleontologist, Stockholm University, Sweden) works in the paleontology lab. (Credit: Erick Bravo, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: 078_exp400_0755.jpg]
Mei Nelissen (Paleontologist, Utrecht University, Netherlands) looks for palynomorphs in a micropaleontology sample of the core using a microscope. (Credit: Erick Bravo, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: 079_exp400_0758.jpg]
View from the JOIDES Resolution’s helideck. (Credit: Erick Bravo, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: 080_exp400_0817.jpg]
Georgia Grant (Sedimentologist, GNS Science, New Zealand), left, and Rachael Gray (Inorganic Geochemist, Kent State University, USA) enjoy a sunny day. (Credit: Erick Bravo, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: 081_exp400_0783.jpg]
A sun halo, including a trio of short sunbows, over the bow of the JOIDES Resolution. (Credit: Michelle Pratt & IODP) [Photo ID: 082_exp400_C0232.jpg]
Sandrine Le Houedec (Sedimentologist, University of Geneva, Switzerland) prepares a core section half to be analyzed by the Section Half Multisensor Logger (SHMSL) system, which measures color reflectance, magnetic susceptibility (point), and surface height. (Credit: Anne Jennings & IODP) [Photo ID: 083_exp400_C0228.jpg]
Libby Ives (Sedimentologist, USA) works at the core description table. (Credit: Anne Jennings & IODP) [Photo ID: 084_exp400_C0229.jpg]
Brian Romans (Sedimentologist, Virginia Tech, USA) describes core sections. (Credit: Anne Jennings & IODP) [Photo ID: 085_exp400_C0230.jpg]
From left, Jian Ren (Micropaleontologist, Second Institute of Oceanography, MNR, P.R. China), Michelle Pratt (Outreach Officer, USA), Sami Cargill (Paleomagnetist, Oregon State University, USA), and Yuka Yokoyama (Physical Properties Specialist, Tokai University, Japan) smile for a photo as they place sample flags in working half core sections. (Credit: Anne Jennings & IODP) [Photo ID: 086_exp400_C0231.jpg]
Volkan Özen (Micropaleontologist, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany) examines a paleontology sample. (Credit: Anne Jennings & IODP) [Photo ID: 087_exp400_C0233.jpg]
Double sun halos and a silhouette of the JOIDES Resolution’s derrick. (Credit: Erick Bravo, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: 088_exp400_0840.jpg]
Siem crewmembers pose for a photo after a safety drill. (Credit: Erick Bravo, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: 089_exp400_0848.jpg]