Alyssa Stephens (Publications Specialist, IODP-USIO/TAMU) celebrates a birthday aboard the JOIDES Resolution. One of the Publications Specialist’s jobs is to coordinate the many birthdays that occur during a two-month expedition. This time Co-Chief Scientist Rick Murray (Boston University, USA) serves the cake, as Carlos Alvarez Zarikian (Expedition Project Manager/​Staff Scientist, IODP-USIO/TAMU) and Bobbi Jo Brace (Paleontologist, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA) take part in the celebration. (Credit: William Crawford, IODP/TAMU) [Photo ID: exp346_109] Back to expedition photos.