Montclair State University in (Ant)Arctica

Blog on seafloor drilling and fieldwork near ice sheets - views are those of the blogger

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Arrived on Site in Baffin Bay

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After a 6-day transit from Iceland across the Arctic circle and into Baffin Bay, we have arrived on site offshore northwest Greenland and th...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Expedition video trailer

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We are scheduled to take fuel tomorrow and to start our journey the day after. Expedition education and outreach officer Beth Doyle made thi...
Sunday, August 13, 2023

IODP Expedition 400 is about to begin!

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International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 400 will depart for Baffin Bay this week. Today the science party is scheduled to mo...
Monday, March 18, 2019

The longest core off West Antarctica

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We are back in port in Punta Arenas, Chile, with on board many sections of drill core. This IODP (International Ocean Discovery Program) exp...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Life on the JR: we still have pineapples!

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We have been drilling down hundreds of meters into the seafloor and we have been processing a lot of core. At the moment we are waiting on i...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Dancing with icebergs: the re-entry cone

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Due to the unexpected erratic movements of icebergs, we have had to pull the drill bit up in the hole or even out of it above the seafloor m...
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Saturday, February 9, 2019

Ancient icebergs and polar oceans

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The team I am part of on board the Joides Resolution, is the Sedimentology team. We have several jobs: one is to X-ray the core sections t...
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