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Collecting Core Sample On-board Drillship
Caption:
Kai Hinrichs, an organic geochemist from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, collects a sediment sample that was drilled from the ocean floor. The work was performed on-board the ocean drillship JOIDES Resolution during an expedition off the northwest coast of South America. The expedition was conducted by Texas A&M; University’s Ocean Drilling Program.
Observing the procedure are Bo Jørgensen, co-chief of the Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology in Germany; Kim Bracchi, a core lab technician; and Kathryn Ford, a physical properties specialist from the University of Rhode Island.
More about this Image
The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) is funded by the National Science Foundation and 22 international partners.
ODP explores on a global scale, the Earth's crust beneath the ocean in order to learn more about the composition, structure, and history of the submerged portion of the Earth's surface. The drilling process involves collecting and logging geologic samples from the floor of deep ocean basins through rotary coring and hydraulic piston coring. The logs and samples of the cores are available to qualified scientists throughout the world for research projects.
Samples have been taken at various sites, including the North Atlantic Ocean, Norwegian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, southern and equatorial Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean off the west coast of South America, Weddell Sea off Antarctica, Indian Ocean, and western and equatorial Pacific Ocean.
The general contractor for the overall management and operation of the ODP is Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc. (JOI), a consortium of major U.S. oceanographic institutions. The drilling operations are managed by Texas A&M; University; logging is managed by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.
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| Credit: |
Credit Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M; University |
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2002 |
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Categories:
OCEAN SCIENCE / Ocean Drilling
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Restrictions:
No additional restrictions--beyond NSF's general restrictions--have been placed on this image. For a list of general restrictions that apply to this and all images in the NSF Image Library, see the section "Conditions".
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