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The ocean drilling freighter may be on its last voyage – here’s why scientists don’t want JOIDES Resolution shelved

Sadly, the JOIDES Resolution, also known as JR, may have set sail for the last time. It docked in Amsterdam on August 2, 2024, with no clear path to raise the $72 million per year needed to operate the ship. Most of that funding comes from the US National Science Foundation, which announced in 2023… Read More »

Seafloor sediment reveals previously unknown volcanic eruption in southern Aegean Sea 520,000 years ago

“Core on deck!” For two months, every time I heard that scream, I would run to the deck of the JOIDES Resolution and watch as the crew removed a 30-foot (10-meter) cylindrical tube filled with layered, multicolored rocks and sediments that had been drilled from the seabed beneath our ship. The crew drilled more than… Read More »