Short caption: Laboratory technicians cut the core into sections and a geochemist prepares to take a gas sample during IODP Expedition 308.

Long caption: Karen Johnston (Marine Laboratory Specialist [MLS], IODP-USIO), Peter Kannberg (MLS, IODP-USIO), and Tim Bronk (Assistant Lab Officer, IODP-USIO) cut the core into sections as Yoshinori Takano (Organic Geochemist, Hokkaido University) prepares to take a gas sample and Roy Davis (Lab Officer, IODP-USIO), Jennifer Henderson (MLS, IODP-USIO), and Carlos Pirmez (Sedimentologist, Shell International Exploration and Production Inc.) look on during IODP Expedition 308.