New paper out in nature today! Turns out #MidOceanRidges can still surprise us… 👇🏻 nature.com/articles/s4158…

.@TheNASEM: '...the capacity for future scientific ocean drilling for the United States and its present international partners will likely be reduced to approximately 10 percent of its current capacity'

Report out today: nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27414

FYI the Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences interim report on Scientific Ocean Drilling is going to be released a week from today, there's going to be an online presentation summarizing it which you can register for here: nationalacademies.org/event/42266_03…

U.S. InterRidge is launching a brand-new monthly webinar, with everything from mid-ocean ridges to the deep abyss: science above, at and below the #seafloor !

Next speaker: Masako Tominaga, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
6 March | 12pm ET
Register: ucsd.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Upcoming schedule 👇

Have you ever wondered what happens to all the core? Let me show you where the core from #EXP395 ended up! #IODP #NSFFunded

China will conduct the 1st sea trial of its self-developed and world's most advanced ocean-drilling research vessel, Mengxiang, in S China's Guangzhou on Dec 22. The ship, with a max range of 15,000 nmi, can operate for 120 consecutive days and drill in waters as deep as 11,000m.

New research from Brian Tucholke & Deborah Smith Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Ross Parnell-Turner Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows that magma supply—not the rate of seafloor spreading—is the strongest predictor for how seafloor morphology is formed. #AGUPubs
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Do you study mid-ocean ridges? There's a townhall for you at #AGU23 !

Meet your colleagues, hear from funding agencies, and bring ideas on working together.

Share your input: forms.gle/pixNfgRgk7vmfs…

Sail on JOIDES Resolution for two weeks between Naples and Reykjavik: a lifetime opportunity for undergrads!!! 🤩
Deadline: January 7th!
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By cancelling scientific ocean drilling ship JOIDES Resolution, the US is “ceding the leadership role in this field that we’ve had for 50-plus years”

There is No JOIDES in Mudville eos.org/features/there…

An update for those who signed our letter to U.S. National Science Foundation asking them to support the scientific ocean drilling community in the U.S.: Director McManus sent us a reply, detailing much of the same we’ve been hearing— the future of our field remains uncertain.

Quick display of IMO's earthquake locations the last 6hrs using map.is. A good,free tool to play with. It certainly looks like a dyke intrusion propagating both SW and NE from Svartsengi. Note that seismicity indicates that the dyke reaches under Grindavík town

NEW: we need to talk about UK graduate wages, and the idea that Britain sends too many people to university.

American readers should stick around for the UK/US comparisons 👀

Let’s start with this: the UK graduate wage premium has fallen substantially over the last 25 years

Academia is held together by free labour, coffee, and the two people who nod encouragingly during presentations

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Senate Appropriations committee is “surprised” by NSF’s decision to scrap ocean drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution

Scientific ocean drilling folks! Please consider signing and sharing our letter to U.S. National Science Foundation detailing why we need concrete commitments now to support our field given the rapidly approaching retirement of JOIDES Resolution

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