63 days at sea on #IODP #exp389 : I worked with some incredible people, saw 63 amazing sunrises, ate a ton of junk food, worked out of a shipping container in full PPE, and collected some amazing rock cores! On my first day off the ship I want to find a vegetable and a bathtub.

Wondering what's up at Kilauea #volcano? After a busy 2023, including late December shallow magma intrusions, HVO reports low gas emissions & elevated seismicity. The ground in the caldera is still quite hot in these live, early-AM USGS webcam images from usgs.gov/volcanoes/kila…

#Hawaiian #CoralReef in a tube. All the cores we collected 3 months ago on the first leg of #IODP #exp389 lined up together at the Bremen (Germany) repository. Cores will be split, imaged, described in detail, and sampled starting tomorrow. It's an amazing #climatearchive

1st day sampling #HawaiianDrownedReefs #IODP #exp389 rock cores. Loads of corals, but also a lovely clinkery 'a'a lava that I sampled for chemistry & dating. These undersea lavas will tell an unexpected yet important volcanic history story (see expedition389.wordpress.com/2023/09/27/bla…)

Fresh & dense picrite, fresh aphyric 'a'a, basalts with infilled vesicles, and those with sharp flow contacts: #hawaiian lavas cored well below modern sea level on #IODP #exp389 are showing a surprising range of #volcanic textures... all in the first site we've examined thus far.

Identifying and taking an amazing array of samples in the lab this week from fossil #Hawaiian #CoralReefs cored on #IODP #exp389. These will be used for a variety of science applications. Stickers correspond to different use cases. After sampling, foam forms sit in empty spaces.

Snowy scenes from my backyard in Rhode Island. Yeah, yeah, I know it's probably nothing new for most of you. But this Californian's 1st #winter in New England is full of new experiences, especially after living several decades in Hawaii.

Have a great #AGU 2024 Ocean Sciences Meeting to those who are attending!! I am sad to be missing #OSM2024, as I participate in the equally exciting onshore phase of #IODP #exp389 about #DrownedHawaiianReefs. This photo was taken in the offshore phase last October.

What a wonderful expedition, wonderful; team, and wonderful story by the GSO comms team. sorry I am just getting around to sharing this. looking forward to the next phase of cool sea level and volcano science!

Stoked to be heading to DC next month for CHOW 2024, as part of the URI Graduate School of Oceanography delegation! It is our first time attending as a sponsoring institution. This year explores traditional and new ways that communities are adapting to a changing planet. Many awesome events on the agenda.

Earth's most active volcano excites: amazing footage of the newest eruption at #Kilauea #volcano in #hawaii. This eruption started yesterday, is the first one outside Halemaumau, at the summit caldera, since 2018, and the first one on the Southwest rift zone since 1974.

USGS HVO reported the June 3 SW Rift Zone eruption at #Kilauea #volcano was paused as of the afternoon on June 4. Significant glow is visible in webcam images of part of the eruption fissure overnight on June 5th. awaiting updates on the ground if this is incandesce or effusion.

The Gala was great, but it wasn't all fun and games at #CHOW2024. Ocean displays & presentations, networking, & I made multiple visits to Senate offices with other URI Graduate School of Oceanography and national oceanographic institution leaders to discuss enhanced ocean science funding and infrastructure.

Interesting discussion of #OffshoreWind development, implementation, and engagement today at #CHOW2024 by indigenous, industry, and gov't panelists. As with so manyenvironmentally sensitice topics,integrating knowlege and perspectives of different stakeholers is key.

Thank you National Marine Sanctuaries Foundation for a wonderful week at #CHOW2024. May we all gain more respect, admiration, and desire to learn and protect our oceans 🌊. Here are a few favorite shots from my life spent at sea this past year, shot offshore #hawaiinei #aloha

Happy #WorldOceanDay! I have been lucky to have an oceans career: 40 years, countless sea days, 100s of fantastical visits to the deep sea floor! And yet I worry about a future sea with more pieces of plastic than fish, ecosystem degradation, carbon loading... Let's do better

We are innovating! Sen. Whitehouse, URI president Parlange, and many notable others were on hand today for the dedication of the Blue Technology Innovation Center on URI's Narragansett Bay campus (NBC), made possible with the senator's steadfast support. #BlueEconomy

New #Kilauea #volcano #eruption brewing? USGS-reports fairly intense deformation (see InSAR image), earthquakes, & infrasound between Maunaulu & Makaopuhi Crater (see map) on the East Rift zone, site of multiple long-lived historical eruptions, the last of which ended in 2018.

So Cool that Napau Crater at the East Rift Zone of #Kilauea #Volcano is erupting again! Such a fitting place to being this new episode of ERZ activity, after the 35-year-long Pu'u 'O'o eruption began there in 1983, returned in 1997, and again in the mid 2000s. USGS-HVO images

Amazing shots overnight of days-old 2024 #Kilauea #MERZ #eruption lava cascading down the hill into Napau crater via new cam: usgs.gov/media/webcams/… I still remember the "olden" days when we would wait patiently for USGS pics of eruptions out of sight of regular webcams. Bravo!