Just a walk on the wild side ...

My colleague Huaichun and I started developing cabin fever while on shift and felt the need to take a walk outside to the helideck!!! It does not smell great because the ship's engines exhausts are just there but at least it's outside!

Bird's eye view of the Joides Resolution

Shuhao Xie, one of our Education Officers, took this amazing photo with a GoPro camera mounted on a drone. Simply spectacular!

Down the rabbit hole ...

This morning, as our cryogenic magnetometer was not particularly cool, I caught a glimpse of Huaichun, my paleomagnetic colleague and friend, chasing the rabbit down the rabbit hole ...

Good morning America!

This is the rising sun over the South China Sea seen from my all-steel residence at 05:45 AM.
Enjoy the view!

Me ... having too much fun with the spinner magnetometer!

Obviously we were having a fire drill on the ship and while waiting for the alarm to ring, I wanted to continue measuring our samples ...

Team of paleomagnetists

This is our team of paleomagnetists from 3 continents on the JR deck.

Core on deck ...

A new core has just been born!

9.5 m long from Mother earth!