by Brendan Reilly | Aug 24, 2018 | News, P-mag Lab in the Field
The P-mag Lab will continue to have a strong partnership with IODP in the 2018/19 academic year and is committed to developing, implementing, and achieving IODP scientific objectives. We are starting the year by participating in two IODP workshops focused on planning...
by Brendan Reilly | Nov 20, 2015 | News, P-mag Lab in the Field, Petermann Gletscher
After a successful field season to Petermann Glacier, we are now hard at work and ready for the suite of sediment cores to arrive (hopefully) next month. Check out this video by Oregon State University graduate, Saskia Madlener and her company 77th Parallel...
by Brendan Reilly | Jul 16, 2015 | News, P-mag Lab in the Field, Petermann Gletscher
Next week, Joe, Brendan, and Mo will head to Thule, Greenland to sail on the Swedish Icebreaker, Oden, to Nares Strait and Petermann Fjord. The field project will include sea floor mapping, marine sediment coring, paleo-shoreline investigation, and cosmogenic...
by Brendan Reilly | Mar 29, 2015 | IODP Exp 354: Bengal Fan, News, P-mag Lab in the Field
With the last core on deck, final paleomagnetic measurements made, and all reports submitted, Expedition 354: Bengal Fan is coming to an end. We will be in Sri Lanka soon and then I head back to Oregon. It has been a great experience to work and learn with scientists...
by Brendan Reilly | Mar 8, 2015 | IODP Exp 354: Bengal Fan, News, P-mag Lab in the Field
After successfully drilling and reaching our target of pre-fan sediments at our deepest site, we are returning to our second site to drill deeper with the RCB system. We hope to extend our record of fan deposition, Himalayan uplift, and evolution of the monsoon at...
by Brendan Reilly | Feb 23, 2015 | IODP Exp 354: Bengal Fan, News, P-mag Lab in the Field
Now at the second hole of our third site, the Exp 354: Bengal Fan team is preparing to start drilling the deepest hole of the expedition using an RCB (Rotary Core Barrel) system to a depth of 1500 meters below the sea floor! We expect this hole to recover sediments...