Siem personnel adjusts equipment on the drill floor. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_198]
Siem personnel receives core on the drill floor. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_199]
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) micrograph of a few fossil groups together to get a sense of scale. Shown here are zooplankton (shrimp, radiolarians, Foraminifera) with coccoliths (the red donuts) dusted all over them. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_200]
Siem personnel deliver a core on the drill floor. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_201]
Pod of pilot whales. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_202]
Leah LeVay (Staff Scientist/Expedition Project Manager, IODP JRSO) watches a pod of pilot whales bob around in the waves. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_203]
Luan Heywood (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO) and Leah LeVay (Staff Scientist/Expedition Project Manager, IODP JRSO) stare out over the ocean. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_204]
Etienne Claassen (Marine Instrumentation Specialist, IODP JRSO) secures the buoy for the air gun to a cable. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_205]
Lisa Crowder (Laboratory Officer, IODP JRSO) radios into the bridge. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_206]
Etienne Claassen (Marine Instrumentation Specialist, IODP JRSO) and Siem personnel secure the buoy and the VSP air gun to the crane. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_207]
Etienne Claassen (Marine Instrumentation Specialist, IODP JRSO) and Lisa Crowder (Laboratory Officer, IODP JRSO) quickly pose for a photo before the VSP air gun is lowered into position. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_208]
Siem personnel waves through the window while he performs routine ship maintenance. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_209]
Our protected mammal watch starts with a visit from a large, dispersed pod of pilot whales. Sarah Kachovich (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO) keeps a careful watch on one of the groups as they move away from the ship. (Credit: Fabricio Ferreira, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_210]
A curious juvenile pilot whale sticks its head out of the water as the pod swims away. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_211]
In the Chemistry Laboratory, glassware is lined up after analysis. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_212]
Vincent Percuoco (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO) carefully dispenses a sample into a vial that will be analyzed by inductively coupled plasma–atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES). (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_213]
A reflection of Vincent Percuoco (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO) as he sets up a sample for inductively coupled plasma–atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES). (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_214]
A ship runs on its stomach. The Entier catering crew restocks the dessert cabinet. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_215]
Luan Heywood (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO) cleans a core after it has been split with the saw. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_216]
Split surface of a basalt sample showing radial alterations. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_217]
Leah LeVay (Staff Scientist/Expedition Project Manager, IODP JRSO) and Lisa Crowder (Laboratory Officer, IODP JRSO) mark basalt samples to be cut for thin sections. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_218]
Peering through the floor grate from above at Siem personnel cleaning the ship. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_219]
Expedition 395C technician group photo. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_220]
Expedition 395C group photo. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_221]
Expedition 395C night shift group photo. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_222]
Expedition 395C Science Party group photo. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_223]
Technicians receiving core on the catwalk. From left: Vincent Percuoco (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO), Katy Smith (Curatorial Specialist, IODP JRSO),Lisa Crowder (Laboratory Officer, IODP JRSO), and Zenon Mateo (Assistant Laboratory Officer, IODP JRSO). (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_224]
Freshly split sedimentary core. (Credit: Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO) [Photo ID: exp395C_225]