Scientists get ready for a core to arrive. From left to right: Michi Stasser (Sedimentologist/student trainee; Switzerland), Marion Pfender (Physical Properties; Germany), Heiner Villinger (Co-chief scientist; Germany), Paola Vannucchi (Structural Geologist; Italy), Evan Solomon (Geochemist; USA), Matthias Haeckel (Organic Geochemist; Canada), Burkhard Schramm (Petrologist; Germany), Adam Klaus (ODP Leg Project Manager), Miriam Kastner (Geochemist; USA), and Demian Saffer (Physical Properties; USA).