Hi friends,
We've officially finished drilling at our final site! The drilling ended a bit prematurely due to a mechanical issue that will take a few days to fix, but we still managed to recover most of the sediments that we were hoping to drill at this site. Just another 12 hours of bringing the drill pipe back onto the ship and we'll be bound for Guam! The thought of tropical beverages alone has me excited at this point.
Two months is a long time to be away, but it has been a joy to meet scientists from all over the world and make many new friends in the process of doing science on board the ship. It's amazing to think about how much we've accomplished in such a short period, and even more so to imagine the research that will happen in the years to come using the samples we've collected. I'm looking forward to sailing again - but hopefully not for a few years and for a shorter amount of time 😊.
I'll be sure to post some photos here or on Facebook once I'm back in the land of fast Internet, but please check out some of the fantastic photos uploaded by the shipboard photographer (organized by week of the expedition) at this page.
I'll see many of you within a couple weeks, but for the rest - until next time!
Best,
Dan
