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I write about rocks and draw things ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - Research Geoscientist at BEG/UT Austin - Illustrating for UTOT www.nurschuba.com

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Here is a leftover comic from the #IODP Expedition 405 from last year.

This one covers the borehole observatories.
Bonus photo from the first installation attempt!

#comic

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11.09.2025 15:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here is a leftover comic from the #IODP Expedition 405 from last year.

This one covers IODP core centers~
Bonus images are snapshots from the Gulf Coast Core Core Repository (GCR).

#comic

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10.09.2025 11:33 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Chikyu Chronicles: Comics from IODP Expedition 405 | PDF to Flipbook Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker

Hey Laura, here is a link to the full comic book: heyzine.com/flip-book/69...

09.09.2025 12:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here is a leftover comic from the #IODP Expedition 405 from last year.

This one is about sampling parties!

#comic

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09.09.2025 11:19 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Here is a leftover comic from the #IODP Expedition 405 from last year.

This one is based on @callanbentley.bsky.social's spaghetti noodle analogy to convey the depth we had to reach.

#comic

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08.09.2025 12:54 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Here is a leftover comic from the #IODP Expedition 405 from last year.

This one is about LWD (which gave me PTSD from my time with Schlumberger).

#comic

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07.09.2025 12:33 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Here is a leftover comic from the #IODP Expedition 405 from last year.

This one is about the broad goal of the expedition (and subduction zones).

#comic

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07.09.2025 03:09 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Last photo dump from earlier this month.
1 - The long walk on the Dungeness Spit.
2 - The lighthouse.
3 - Jonathan on the light tower.
4 - On the flight back home, I think I took a snapshot of Mount Adams (foreground), Mount Hood (mid-ground), and Mount Jefferson (in the far distance). 🌋

17.06.2025 18:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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More photos from early June from North Bend~
1 - Went to Washington after Juneau. Jonathan climbed and I shortroped (and worried).

2 - More climbers on Little Si.

3 - We stayed with uncle Dave and Sue (and PeeWee)!

4 - From a glorious long walk in North Bend.

16.06.2025 18:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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More May photos from Alaska!

15.06.2025 16:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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More photos from late April/early May: Austria travels for EGU. Semmering hike and mostly Vienna memories.

14.06.2025 13:00 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Welp. I disassociated and now it’s June. I’ll share some photos and comics from April & May in a way to not feel bad about suddenly realizing half the year disappeared.

April was a lot of Texas travel. One of the trips was for the College Station, to the Gulf Coast Core Repository (GCR).

13.06.2025 12:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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I’m jelly!

09.05.2025 14:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
1: Helena and her mother are eating dinner. Helena is sheepishly asking „Um…Mom? Did you get a call from school today?“ „No“
2: Helena yells out „Oh, okay! Good! Uh, no reason!“ while her mother keeps eating dinner.
3: Helena looks at her mother in slight disbelief, almost knowing something’s coming. Mom is still eating dinner.
4: While eating dinner, Mom says „Just pay better attention in class“. „How did you know???“

1: Helena and her mother are eating dinner. Helena is sheepishly asking „Um…Mom? Did you get a call from school today?“ „No“ 2: Helena yells out „Oh, okay! Good! Uh, no reason!“ while her mother keeps eating dinner. 3: Helena looks at her mother in slight disbelief, almost knowing something’s coming. Mom is still eating dinner. 4: While eating dinner, Mom says „Just pay better attention in class“. „How did you know???“

Clairvoyance, Helena 122.

01.05.2025 14:48 — 👍 162    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 0
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(I’m alive)

Here are some short comics from the hourlies from a month ago. [3/3]

01.03.2025 15:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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(I’m alive)

Here are some short comics from the hourlies from a month ago. [2/3]

01.03.2025 15:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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(I’m alive)

Here are some short comics from the hourlies from a month ago. [1/3]

01.03.2025 15:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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More Japan photos (after IODP 405)

1 - Before we docked. We ended up sitting near Shimizu for a day.
2 - Our welcome party included the town mascot (which was a seal, I think)
3 - Kamakura! I will go back one day (to take reference photos, collect the temple stamps, and also go to Enoshima)

23.01.2025 14:02 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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I forgot to make one of these. Almost a month late, but here is my 2024 Art vs Artist thing (along with the last two years)

I like making these because it gives me an excuse to sit down and figure out what I did the year before (and what I enjoyed illustrating).

#illustration #comics #artvsartist

22.01.2025 03:01 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you! I shot them on a FujiFilm XS20. It’s a digital camera. I do love FujiFilm’s colors so much.

08.01.2025 01:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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More December photos!

1- Got to see @aikosmith.com one more time in 2024.

2- The art installation we saw at Ginza Six by Kenji Yanobe. It's called "Big Cat Bang".

3- The Urasawa drawing in question. Touching something Urasawa physically touched grants you drawing superpowers, right? (Right?!)

07.01.2025 13:08 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Some more memories from last month:

1- After coming back to land and separating from friends, I did a day trip to Kawagoe and visited some temples.

2- This was the entrance of the Ten’nenji Temple (1554).

3-The long flight back was dark, but... Houston-to-Austin connection had pretty skies.

06.01.2025 13:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Taking a break from expedition stuff! Here are some photos from Crux South:

1- Pre-Japan, I was practicing lead climbing and belaying (and short-roping Jonathan)

2- The boy in his happy place.

3- Crux South closed this week. We climbed there for the last time on the 28th. It was sad to leave.

05.01.2025 03:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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For the last few weeks, I was on the drill ship #Chikyu for the #IODP Expedition 405! Our goal was gathering data and samples to understand tsunamigenic slip across the Japan Trench.

Here's an emo comic about saying goodbye during crew changes.
#comic
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24.12.2024 01:05 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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These are some of the photos I took of people of #Chikyu during #IODP Expedition 405.

1: Assistant Driller Mine-san
2: Captain Inoe-san
3: Technical Engineer Akiyama-san

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23.12.2024 14:23 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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For the last few weeks, I was on the drill ship #Chikyu for the #IODP Expedition 405! Our goal was gathering data and samples to understand tsunamigenic slip across the Japan Trench.

(here's a comic about Chikyu sign language)

#sciencecommunication #comic
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23.12.2024 01:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chikyu reached land! The expedition is over, but I'll continue sharing photos and comics a bit longer.

1: Planning a comic by Fuji on the last day - by Yu-Chun Chang
2: Another helideck view
3: My first day on Chikyu - by Yoshi Kurata

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22.12.2024 14:16 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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I'm on the drill ship #Chikyu for the #IODP Expedition 405! Our goal is tracking tsunamigenic slip across the Japan Trench.

(the one about daily update meetings)

#sciencecommunication #comic #exp405
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18.12.2024 22:12 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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This is Shigako Nigi from the Kochi Core Center, one of the three core repositories for the IODP. Shigako and her team have been working diligently on Chikyu to archive the precious core samples we have collected during Expedition 405 (JTRACK) for future researchers.

16.12.2024 23:25 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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