Please see our flyer and website le.ac.uk/iodp/summer-... for application details. The Summer School is open to applicants from all career stages and geoscience backgrounds with a ⏰Deadline for application of 8 April at 9 am BST. #scientificoceandrilling #downholelogging #iodp3 #summerschool

✨ 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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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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The last core is being split.

Curator taking both core halves for further analyses

Science team looks together at both split halves of the last core.

There goes the last core of #IODP3NSF #Exp501.

#lastCore #NewEnglandShelf #ScientificOceanDrilling #picoftheday

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For the first time, a science team has directly documented and extensively sampled a freshened water system beneath the ocean floor 🌊

Discover the first insights from #IODP3NSF #Expedition501➡️ ecord.org/extensive-fr...

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The Bloody Core … Profanities have no place in IODP3, and the code of conduct is taken seriously by everyone on board. Language, however, has a habit of finding small gaps. Mild intensifiers do sometimes slip throug…

"In these moments language moves between literal and figurative" - New blog post about language, #ScientificOceanDrilling and core flow.
#IODP3NSF #Exp501 @epc-research.bsky.social @marumunibremen.bsky.social @anzic.bsky.social
➡️expedition501.wordpress.com/2026/01/31/the-bloody-co...

Looking back: What was it really like for operations Manager Leo Barbosa? Before IODP3-NSF Expedition 501, all my offshore experience had been on oil and gas rigs and never for longer than 14 days at a time. So the thought of living and working on an offshore vessel for …

New blog post alert ! 🔔

Today we meet an other member of the science team, Leo Barbosa from the British Geological Survey #BGS, telling us his experience as operations manager on board of #IODP3NSF #Exp501

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#NewEnglandShelf #ScientificOceanDrilling

Meet the Team: Gretl King Who are you?My name is Gretl King, I’m a PhD candidate at Binghamton University, based in the state of New York. What is your scientific objective for this expedition?I’m one of two mic…

Meet the Science Team of #IODP3NSF #Exp501!

🚀 Today is the turn of Gretl King, from Binghamton University.

Read the blog article here: expedition501.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/m...

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Meet our Science Team #IODP3NSF #Exp501! Today: Sophie from @stockholm-uni.bsky.social

#NewEnglandShelf #ScientificOceanDrilling

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Expedition 501 has transitioned from sea to shore. With 718 sediment cores recovered, nearly 873 m of core material, and >50,000 L of fluids, the science teams are now focused on sampling and analysis at MARUM. 🧪📊 #Exp501 #LabLife #ECORDScienceOperator #IODP3NSF #Exp501 #ScientificOceanDrilling

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.

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SCIMPI History: The SHRIMPI — Transcend Engineering Simple Cabled Instrument Measuring Parameters In-Situ (SCIMPI) is modular, when deployed down a borehole the components are separated by floats to maintain their position. A command module is position...

What scientist doesn't love thinking up a good acronym? 😜 🌊 #scientificoceandrilling #subsea

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 🌊

SCIMPI: An origin story. — Transcend Engineering The first SCIMPI prototype was deployed in May 2013 during IODP Expedition 341S—but that’s not where the story begins. Like many breakthroughs in science, SCIMPI’s origin is a story of vision, persist...

Even a SCIMPI has an origin story, here's mine...

#IODP #ScientificOceanDrilling #ScientificDrilling

Good bye L/B Robert! 93 operational days. 74 days at sea. 718 cores. 3 Sites. 6 Holes. 9 pump tests. 61 scientists and ESO team members at sea. 122 transfers on and off the L/B Robert. It is now time to say good bye to…

Good bye L/B Robert, good bye offshore operations of #IODP3NSF #Exp501! Thanks to our fantastic drilling team, ship's crew and science team!
Check out some quick numbers ➡️ expedition501.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/g...
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The final core from the final Hole! From left to right the Boart Longyear team Chris Redding (Helper), Co Chief Brandon Dugan, Chandler Maine (Supervisor), Nick Boehne (Driller) and Lalo Aguilar (Helper).

#picoftheday: Final core from the final Hole! #IODP3NSF #Exp501 The Boart Longyear team (from left) Chris Redding (Helper), Co-Chief Brandon Dugan, Chandler Maine (Supervisor), Nick Boehne (Driller) and Lalo Aguilar (Helper). #ScientificOceanDrilling
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Glimpse into life offshore: Ship-2-Shore Event “What different jobs do people have on the platform?” was one of the manyquestions asked during the Q&A portion of the recent IODP³-NSF X501 ship-to-shore event that was hosted by the School of…

New Blog - glimpse into life offshore: Ship-2-Shore Event ➡️
expedition501.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/g...

#ECORDScienceOperator #NewEngland #ScientificOceanDrilling #OceanScience
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Hidden stories - on hard hats #IODP3NSF #Exp501 ➡️ expedition501.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/h...

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Reporting from M0112A: With Superstition, Science, and a Side of Sea Fog - new blog entry from #IODP3NSF #Exp501
➡️ expedition501.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/r...

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#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.🌎

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#clipoftheday 📹 Sunrise on L/B Robert during IODP³-NSF Expedition 501 🌅

Footage: 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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Research is a process. Read about the processes during #IODP3NSF #Exp501 pump tests in the latest blog entry.

➡️ expedition501.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/p...
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X501 team members being transferred onto the L/B Robert by Billy Pugh basket after a foggy transit.

#IODP3NSF #Exp501 team members being transferred onto the L/B Robert by Billy Pugh basket after a foggy transit.
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Tasting Science. And Root Beer. With Ice Cream? New Blog entry #IODP3NSF #Exp501
➡️ expedition501.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/o...
🔬🚢🧪#Oceanlove #ECORDScienceOperator #NewEngland #ScientificOceanDrilling

#IODP3NSF #Exp501 Co-chief Becky Robinson explaining the manifold setup before pump testing begins.

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Moving As 90-ish days of science at sea go tick, tick, ticking by, the fog rolls in and out. Waves rise and fall. Researchers and crew come and go from near and far as offshore stints begin and end. Exped…

“But the Earth will do what the Earth is gonna do.” - New blog entry ➡️
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#IODP3NSF #Exp501 #Oceanlove
#ECORDScienceOperator #NewEngland #ScientificOceanDrilling

A rainy view to the working deck while waiting for the vessel to be safely at location.

Rainy view.
More Info ➡️https://www.ecord.org/expedition501/
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Andrew McIntyre, Adam Wspanialy and Graham Tulloch discuss logging and drilling strategies while Raushan Arnhardt and Margaret Stewart prepare for X501 team transfers.
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The Galley That Runs the Ship: Expedition 501’s True Command Centre Out here in the middle of the ocean, on IODP³-NSF Expedition 501, the nearest grocery store is somewhere back on land, and the weather can throw a tantrum at any minute. Food isn’t just food. It’s …

Netflix recommendations, but for your stomach: Read in our latest blog how Chief Steward Thomas organises the menu for crew and science team on L/B Robert #IODP3NSF #Exp501.🚢 🔬 🌊 ➡️ expedition501.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/t...
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