✨ AND IT’S A WRAP ✨

Read about the end of Onshore Operations: the traditions, the goodbyes, and what’s coming next for #Expedition501. 🌊🔬

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#IODP3NSF #onshoreoperations #scientificoceandrilling #NewEnglandShelfs

🌍 Mentally drained, emotionally fulfilled. Thank you #Expedition501 team, it was a pleasure! Excited for the New England core science. The onshore phase may be over, but the blog will keep going: expedition501.wordpress.com
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While the onshore operations of #IODP3NSF #Expedition501 are coming to an end, we’re not done meeting the people behind the science.

Today, meet Bryce Mitsunaga from @harvard.edu
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Following the path of a core arriving at the Bremen Core Repository for the onshore operations of #IODP3NSF #Expedition501.
1️⃣First steps of the core flow: core inspection and core splitting.
Read the article here 👉 expedition501.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/t...
📷 Cores before,during and after splitting

Scientists tap 'secret' fresh water under the ocean, raising hopes for a thirsty world Scientists conducting a first-of-its-kind drilling operation have extracted samples of fresh water hiding in massive reservoirs deep under the ocean.

“Four parts per thousand was a eureka moment,” Dugan said, because the finding suggested that the water must have been connected to a terrestrial system in the past, or still is.

apnews.com/article/fres...

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#Expedition501 #ScientificOceanDrilling 🌊

Oh this is a cool time lapse. Our Chief Technologist Steve took video this leaving the L/B Robert scientific drill ship (yup, that's it way up above the water!) on the transport vessel the Gaspee. #ScientificOceanDrilling #Expedition501 🌊

After 74 days at sea, IODP³-NSF #Expedition501 has completed offshore operations!
Next step ➡️ onshore science at Bremen Core Repository to to split, sample, and analyze the sediment cores and water collected. Stay tuned! 🌎
Read more about the successful offshore phase: www.ecord.org/iodp%c2%b3-n...

Learn more about the SCIMPI sensor being deployed on #Expedition501 Almost in our backyard 😉 (Transcend is headquartered in Vermont, but we think we can feel the ocean breeze from here.) #oceanresearch #hydrogeology

#Expedition501: “New England Shelf Hydrogeology”
investigates freshened water under the ocean floor.
In this video, Co-Chief Scientist Brandon Dugan explains why sharing the impacts of #offshoreresearch with local communities is so important.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5f5...

#Picoftheday
Another day of work aboard the L/B Robert for #Expedition501.
In the photo, Rachel Bell and Alize Longeau collect a sample from a core at Hole M0113A, while Graham Tulloch observes.🌎

📷 LeBer@ECORD_IODP3_NSF

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Pure poetry Beneath ocean floorFossil roots sleep in old soilWhispers of past land Geoscientist Sara Polanco penned this exquisite poem, a haiku, to describe a core that recently arrived on deck of the L/B ROB…

When science meets poetry 🌎📜

New blog entry from #Expedition501 ➡️ expedition501.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/p...

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