Monday 6 Sept 2010I am off to a good start flying across the country on my journey to join the scientific ocean drilling research vessel called Joides Resolution with the School of Rock crew waiting in Victoria Canada. We will be heading to the Cascadia Margin off the coast of British Columbia. We will be conducting geologic investigations using deep sea cores and logging data. We will also be observing the assembly and installation of an ACORK (a sub-seafloor observatory) that will take various measurements deep in the ocean floor.I will be blogging about my life at sea as I sail from 9 Sept to 19 Sept. I hope you will follow my with me and other members of the expedition on our adventure at www.joidesresolution.org . You can also become a fan of the JR on Facebook and on Twitter. http://joidesresolution.org/blog/207 I will also be doing a satellite conference with Doni Angel's middle school students at 8:15 am "ship time" 14 September. I will ask the IT folk if there is a way to upload this so you can see how it went.Below is a map showing where we will be (Site 889) to install the sub-seafloor observatory (48° 41.9964' N Latitude and 126° 52.3302' W Longitude). This is near where the Juan de Fuca and North American plates meet up. If I understand the map correctly the ocean is about 1300 m / 1.3 km (about 0.8 mile) deep here. The ACORK will be installed about 300 m below the sea floor using one really big drill!
Over half way there on my two week Science Ship Adventure!
Photos from the JOIDES Friends and Family page.... http://iodp.tamu.edu/scienceops/gallery/exp328/
Blog..... http://joidesresolutionorg/blog/207
Email... jrs_novak@ship.iodp.tamu.edu
Kimberly Novakklnovak@mac.com
