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Posted by: Ute_Kaden Aug 22 2005, 06:44 PM

Pizza and Science Work Continued
TREC 8-21-05

Our Pizza dinner was a great success. We had lots of fun in the kitchen. It is quite a challenge to cook for 142 people. Asa from Sweden was preparing the Pizza sauce. Stirring the huge pot she told me that the taste does not want to change regardless how much of the spices she puts in. 50 tasty Pizzas and a spicy soup prepared by Paula got served to the crew by the science party. The clean up was handled professionally by our science clean up group- always impressive to see men cleaning a kitchen with style☺.


Christina the coast guard cook helps Vibeke to find the right spices.


Paula, Vibeke and Asa cooking


The Cooking Pot is Huge!


Germain, Sandrine, Walter are serving pizza


Dennis Darby serves Pizza to Second commander Jackson


Map for 8-21-05

Saturday was also the day of arriving at coring station six. During the night to Sunday we successfully retrieved a multi core and two JPC (Jumbo Piston Cores). One JPC was more than 15 m long! The activity concluded about 6 am, Sunday morning. Our seismic people talked about the data they collected. It is very, very good.


John Hopper from Texas A& M University explains the seismic data to David Hassilev

During coring the seismic equipment is on deck. After putting it back into the water we had some tense moments. Heavy ice caused the air guns to fire in the air instead of into the water and the streamer with the sensitive hydrophones got beaten up by the ice. Thankfully nothing broke.


Chief seismic scientist Ingve Kristoffersen from Norway and High School student Karina are observing the seismic equipment in the water. Ingve is a great teacher as well!

I helped Sandrine from Canada to package the mud slices obtained from the multi core. 100 little bags filled with 0.5 cm thick slices of ocean floor sediment got labeled and stored for future analysis. We crossed 80 N and had some snow showers during the day.


Sandrine & Ute processing the multi core sediments

Best regards,

Ute