“How hard can it be? Muddy scientist debate Many shades of grey.” A haiku by Lisa Tauxe (Paleomagnetist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA), inspired by the efforts of the Expedition 355 science party to describe the cores. In this photo, James Bendle (Organic Geochemist, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) and Huayu Lu (Sedimentologist, Nanjing University, P.R. China) examine the core while Erik Moortgat (Chemistry Laboratory, IODP JRSO) places the next split core section on the description table. (Credit: Bill Crawford, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp355_039]