Paleontologists Xin Su and Kuo-Yen Wei in search for nannofossils, while Bernhard Diekmann (on the right) cannot wait to get this core dated.
The physical properties group next to the vane shear device (left to right): Dave Hart, Stan Hammon (one of our undergraduate students), and Simon Dean.
Paleomagnetists Charlie Endris and Carl Richter with their silver "toy."
Craig Moyer, microbiologist, during his search for strange and yet to be discovered live forms in rocks from deep below the ocean floor.
Jack Lockwood, volcanologist and structural geologist, taking a close look at a piece of serpentinite recovered from Site 1200.
Sedimentologists Nicole Januszczak and Bernhard Diekmann at their desk right behind the core description table.
The petrology team, Ivan Savov, Bernhard Diekmann (sedimentologist), Massimo D'Antonio, and undergraduate student Mette Kristensen.
Geochemist Mike Mottl during his discovery of some of the strangest sub-seafloor pore water samples ever recovered.