Jeremy Deans (Structural Geologist, University of Southern Mississippi, USA) marks the whole-round cutting lines in the core splitting room. (Credit: Tatsuo Nozaki & IODP) [Photo ID: exp376_061]
Jung Hun Seo (Volcanologist, Inha University, Republic of Korea) examines a piece of core. (Credit: Tatsuo Nozaki & IODP) [Photo ID: exp376_062]
Yuichi Shimmoto (Technical Engineer, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology [JAMSTEC], Japan) cuts his birthday cake. (Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp376_063]
Yuichi Shimmoto (Technical Engineer, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology [JAMSTEC], Japan) celebrates his birthday with technicians and scientists. (Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp376_064]
Yuichi Shimmoto (Technical Engineer, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology [JAMSTEC], Japan) and Tobias Höfig (Expedition Project Manager/Staff Scientist, IODP JRSO). (Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp376_065]
The Siem Offshore drill floor crew stabs a joint of pipe. (Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp376_066]
Ken Takai (Microbiologist, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology [JAMSTEC], Japan) takes a sample in the core splitting room. (Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp376_067]
A Siem Offshore Welder works on a reentry cone. (Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp376_068]
Perry Hyde (Education/Outreach Officer, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand), Tobias Höfig (Expedition Project Manager/Staff Scientist, IODP JRSO), Frank Tepley (Igneous Petrologist, Oregon State University, USA), Steve Midgley (Operations Superintendent, IODP JRSO), and Yuanfeng Cai (Alteration Mineralogist, Nanjing University, China) observe the reentry funnel and mudskirt landing frame, which are ready for deployment. (Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp376_069]
Siem Offshore workers use a pipe wrench to wrestle the heavy pipe into place on the drill floor. (Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp376_070]
A Siem Offshore drill floor worker operates the “iron roughneck.” (Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp376_071]
Scientists and technicians watch as the long arms of the stabber position the turbine-driven coring assembly over a timber for testing. (Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp376_072].
There it blows! The turbine-driven coring system core barrel is tested on the rig floor. (Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp376_073]
Perry Hyde (Education/Outreach Officer, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand) is ready for the next coverage. (Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp376_074]
Seth Frank (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO) [blue hard hat] and Erik Moortgat (Assistant Laboratory Officer, IODP JRSO) [yellow jacket] receive the first core recovered from the inner core barrel of the turbine-driven coring system. (Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp376_075]
Anna Kutovaya (Organic Geochemist, RWTH Aachen University, Germany) and Cornel de Ronde (Co-Chief Scientist, GNS Science, New Zealand). (Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp376_076]
Steve Midgley (Operations Superintendent, IODP JRSO), Samuel McLelland (Siem Offshore Drilling Supervisor), and Cornel de Ronde (Co-Chief Scientist, GNS Science, New Zealand) watch the rig floor action. (Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp376_077]
Agnes Reyes (Physical Properties Specialist/Downhole Measurements, GNS Science, New Zealand) works on the third-party fluid-inclusion system. (Credit: Tobias Höfig, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp376_078]
Yuichi Shimmoto (Technical Engineer, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology [JAMSTEC], Japan) and a Siem Offshore Toolpusher. (Credit: Philipp Brandl & IODP) [Photo ID: exp376_079]
Sunset. (Credit: Tammy Orilio & IODP) [Photo ID: exp376_080]
The subsea camera system is lowered through the moonpool. (Credit: Andrew Martin & IODP) [Photo ID: exp376_081]
Aida Farough (Physical Properties Specialist/Petrophysics, Kansas State University, USA). (Credit: Andrew Martin & IODP) [Photo ID: exp376_082]
Agnes Reyes (Physical Properties Specialist/Downhole Measurements, GNS Science, New Zealand). (Credit: Andrew Martin & IODP) [Photo ID: exp376_083]
The Siem Offshore drill floor crew stab pipe. (Credit: Andrew Martin & IODP) [Photo ID: exp376_084]
Jill McDermott (Fluid Geochemist, Lehigh University, USA). (Credit: Andrew Martin & IODP) [Photo ID: exp376_085]
Frank Tepley (Igneous Petrologist, Oregon State University, USA) and Dominique Tanner (Igneous Petrologist, University of Wollongong, Australia). (Credit: Andrew Martin & IODP) [Photo ID: exp376_086]
Terry Skinner (Siem Offshore Captain) instructs Anna Kutovaya (Organic Geochemist, RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Aida Farough (Physical Properties Specialist/Petrophysics, Kansas State University, USA), and Jill McDermott (Fluid Geochemist, Lehigh University, USA). (Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp376_087]