Close-up view of a large vein of calcite in a basalt core. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_123]
Sometimes a broken basalt core needs to be reconstructed, like a complex puzzle, to become complete again. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_124]
Kerry Swain (Schlumberger Logging Engineer, IODP JRSO) standing in front of his logging tools on the drill floor. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_125]
Kerry Swain (Schlumberger Logging Engineer, IODP JRSO) and the drilling crew retrieving the logging tools on the drill floor. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_126]
Kerry Swain (Schlumberger Logging Engineer, IODP JRSO) showing the high-resolution transducer on the Ultrasonic Borehole Imager (UBI) downhole tool. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_127]
Fabricio Ferreira (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO) working in the lonely Microscope lab. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_128]
Etienne Claassen (Marine Instrumentation Specialist, IODP JRSO) helping on the Bridge by coordinating with various teams during a fire drill. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_129]
Siem personnel putting on their fire safety gear during the fire drill. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_130]
Lisa Crowder (Laboratory Officer, IODP JRSO) and Eric Moortgat (Assistant Laboratory Officer, IODP JRSO) watching the live profile from the sonar dome as we move to our next site. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_131]
Refilling liquid nitrogen in preparation for more core at our third site (U1562). (Credit: Luan Heywood, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_132]
Vincent Percuoco (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO) in the background taking a headspace sample adjacent to where the interstitial water (IW) whole-round sample, in focus, was taken. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_133]
Carving the IW whole-round sample to extract the most pristine part for analysis. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_134]
Dry, flat IW whole-round sample, now referred to as the squeeze cake, after the liquid has been extracted. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_135]
A pod of pilot whales. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_136]
Doris Piñero Lajas (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO) sampling the split core. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_137]
Doris Piñero Lajas (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO) weighing a sample on the “unknown” balance of the paired, motion-compensated weighing system as part of the moisture and density (MAD) process. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_138]
The derrick on a foggy day. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_139]
Siem personnel detaching the core catcher. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_140]
Jenna Patten (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO) spraying down the catwalk between cores. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_141]
A full core rack. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_142]
Scraping split cores to bring out the bedding structures for imaging. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_143]
Leah LeVay (Expedition Project Manager/Staff Scientist, IODP JRSO) running core sections through the Section Half Imaging Logger (SHIL) as technicians receive a core on the catwalk. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_144]
Sunrise over the north Atlantic Ocean. (Credit: Jenna Patten, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_145]
Jenna Patten (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO) opening the –86° freezer to store a microbiology sample. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_146]