ECORD - European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling

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...

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

#ECORDScienceOperator #NewEngland #ScientificOceanDrilling #OceanScience 🌊🚢🔬

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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Call for proposals to the Magellan3 Workshop Series Programme now open!
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YouTube video by ECORD_IODP Coastal Communities Explainer

#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.🌎

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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/
📷Stewart@ECORD_IODP3_NSF
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Au large des Etats-Unis, une expédition scientifique recherche de l’eau douce… sous la mer Si la présence d’eau douce sous la mer, dans des aquifères, est connue depuis l’Antiquité, les géophysiciens ignorent encore presque tout des mécanismes qui la régissent. Une mission internationale co...

[➡️ #Hydrogéologie] 🌊🚰 Si la présence d’aquifères d'eau douce sous la mer est connue depuis l’Antiquité, les géophysiciens ignorent presque tout de leurs caractéristiques. L'expédition 501 de l' #IODP3NSF est la 1ère à les étudier. #OFG #Exp501 @ecord.bsky.social
www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

I’m offshore til 7/20 drilling into an LGM freshwater aquifer (www.ecord.org/expedition501/); expedition blog at expedition501.wordpress.com.

This Thursday, 7/3, at 1 pm UK / 8 am Eastern, when I’m on shift, there’s a public “ship-to-shore” broadcast tour:

le.ac.uk/gge/events/r...

Come see!

Andrew McIntyre, Adam Wspanialy and Graham Tulloch discuss logging and drilling strategies while Raushan Arnhardt and Margaret Stewart prepare for X501 team transfers.
📷LEBER@ECORD_IODP3_NSF
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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...
#ECORDScienceOperator #NewEngland #ScientificOceanDrilling #foodieoffshore

Wireline Complete, Engines Ahead: Captain in Command Operations at Hole M0111B wrapped up with the final wireline logging runs after core recovery. The logging team, Simon Barry and Erwan Le Ber, mobilised the wireline tools for a planned sequence of…

At night on the platform: Wireline Complete, Engines Ahead - Captain in Command
➡️ expedition501.wordpress.com/2025/06/22/w...

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Chasing freshened groundwater beneath the seafloor - Stockholm University Chasing freshened groundwater beneath the seafloor PhD student Sophie ten Hietbrink just came back from an expedition outside the United States east coast searching for freshwater beneath the seafloor...

Sophie ten Hietbrink from @stockholm-uni.bsky.social just came back from the #IODP3NSF expedition outside the US eastern coast searching for freshwater beneath the seafloor.
@ecord.bsky.social #Exp501 #Hydrogeology #NewEnglandShelf #ScientificOceanDrilling
Read interview: www.su.se/english/news...

Wooden post with signs that indicate where our science team members have their homes.

Homes ❤️
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Meet Mojgan Soleimani: Reading through history For many people, studying rocks may seem like a stagnant discipline, but for Mojgan Soleimani, it’s anything but. A post-doctorate candidate at the University of Montpellier in France, she views ge…

🚢🔬Meet Mojgan Soleimani: Reading through history
➡️ expedition501.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/m...

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ESO and Science Team members are sitting on benches to enjoy the sunset on the port side of the L/B Robert, view from above.

#picoftheday #IODP3NSF #Exp501: ESO and Science Team members enjoy the sunset on the port side of the L/B Robert
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UK IODP Newsletter 2025 Issue 6 June

Expedition 501 is at sea right now, exploring offshore freshened groundwater - learn more in our latest newsletter, as we hear directly from Co-Chief Scientist Brandon Dugan:

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Coring Ahead: Offshore Team on Expedition 501 Achieves Scientific and Operational Milestones at Site M0111 Two weeks into operations at offshore Site M0111, by 5 June 2025, 04:00 EDT, the team reached Core 171R at a depth of 389.18 meters below the seafloor in Hole B, with over 500 samples collected. In…

🛳️ Glance back: Celebrating operational and scientific milestones #IODP3NSF #Exp501 as a team!
➡️ expedition501.wordpress.com/2025/06/15/c...
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ESO Petrophysicist Tayyaba Khurram and geochemist Alizé Longeau take 5 minutes for a chat during a busy shift

ESO Petrophysicist Tayyaba Khurram and geochemist Alizé Longeau take 5 minutes for a chat during a busy shift #picoftheday #IODP3NSF #Exp501 🔬🚢#ScientificOceanDrilling
📷LeBer@ECORD_IODP3_NSF

Meet Avishek Dutta: Looking for life When onshore, Avishek Dutta is an assistant professor of geomicrobiology at the University of Georgia. Geomicrobiology is a pretty multi-layered word; as Dutta described, it means that he studies “…

🔬 Meet Dr. Avishek Dutta, Assistant Professor of Geomicrobiology.
As science team member for #IODP3NSF #Exp501 he is investigating life in the sub-seafloor environment. Read the latest blog entry here ➡️ expedition501.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/m...
#EarthScience #ScientificOceanDrilling

Establishing Routines, and Memories Now that my first few days of apparent chaos have passed, I have time to think. My arrival back on board the L/B Robert by helicopter seemed to happen in a gale – container doors took two people to…

Make time and a new routine: Read in the latest blog article how project manager Jez Everest spends ten minutes everyday to sit with a cup of tea and watch the sun rise. expedition501.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/e...