Short caption: The curator explains how to take core samples during IODP Expedition 311.

Long caption: Phil Rumford (Curator, IODP-USIO) explains how to take core samples and input the information in the curatorial database during IODP Expedition 311. From left to right: Michael Riedel (Co-Chief Scientist, Pacific Geoscience Centre), Tim Collett (Co-Chief Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey), Masanori Kaneko (Organic Geochemist, Okayama University), Michelle Ellis (Physical Properties Specialist, Southampton Oceanography Centre), Barbara Teichert (Sedimentologist, Bundesanstalt fuer Geowissenschaften & Rohstoffe), Yowsuke Higashi (Microbiologist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), Ulrich Wortmann (Inorganic Geochemist, University of Toronto), and Yoshitaka Hashimoto (back to the camera; Sedimentologist, Kochi University).