✨ AND IT’S A WRAP ✨

Read about the end of Onshore Operations: the traditions, the goodbyes, and what’s coming next for #Expedition501. 🌊🔬

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https://expedition501.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/and-its-a-wrap/

And It’s a Wrap!

The Onshore phase of expedition 501 has drawn to a close. It is time to pack up, submit the final reports for Site M0113, confirm flights and travel plans, and pick up a few Bremen souvenirs before…

IODP³-NSF Expedition 501: New England Shelf Hydrogeology
🌍 Mentally drained, emotionally fulfilled. Thank you #Expedition501 team, it was a pleasure! Excited for the New England core science. The onshore phase may be over, but the blog will keep going: expedition501.wordpress.com
@MARUM
@ANZIC
@epc_leicester

While the onshore operations of #IODP3NSF #Expedition501 are coming to an end, we’re not done meeting the people behind the science.

Today, meet Bryce Mitsunaga from
Harvard

➡️ expedition501.wordpress.com/blog/

#NewEnglandShelfs #ScientificOceanDrilling

Following the path of a core arriving at the Bremen Core Repository for the onshore operations of #IODP3NSF #Expedition501➡️ the archive half
➡️ https://expedition501.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/il-flusso-del-nucleo-the-journey-of-the-archive-half/
The Core Flow: the journey of the archive half

The long journey of a sediment core at the Bremen Core Repository (BCR) at MARUM begins with the core being split lengthwise into two halves (see: From this moment on, each fulfills a distinct role…

IODP³-NSF Expedition 501: New England Shelf Hydrogeology

For the first time, a science team has directly documented and extensively sampled a freshened water system beneath the ocean floor 🌊

Discover the first insights from #IODP3NSF #Expedition501➡️
https://go.bsky.app/redirect?u=https%3A%2F%2Fecord.org%2Fextensive-freshened-water-beneath-ocean-floor-confirmed%2F
#ScientificOceanDrilling #NewEnglandShelf

Following the path of a core arriving at the Bremen Core Repository for the onshore operations of #IODP3NSF #Expedition501.
1️⃣First steps of the core flow: core inspection and core splitting.
Read the article here ➡️ https://expedition501.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/the-core-flow-core-inspection-and-core-splitting/
The Core Flow: core inspection and core splitting

The science team has gathered in person at MARUM, in Bremen for the onshore phase of IODP³–NSF Expedition 501, New England Shelf Hydrogeology. Starting on 14 January, sediment cores recovered durin…

IODP³-NSF Expedition 501: New England Shelf Hydrogeology
First-of-its-kind study finds 'secret #freshwater' that may stretch from New Jersey to Maine
This summer, a first-of-its-kind global research expedition followed up on that surprise. Drilling for fresh #water under the salt water off Cape Cod, #Expedition501 extracted thousands of samples from what is now thought to be a massive, hidden #aquifer stretching from New Jersey as far north as Maine.
https://fortune.com/2025/09/07/secret-fresh-water-under-the-sea-from-new-jersey-to-maine/
https://archive.ph/6JvBD
First-of-its-kind study finds ‘secret fresh water’ that may stretch from New Jersey to Maine

“We need to look for every possibility we have to find more water for society,” says Brandon Dugan, the expedition's co-chief scientist, from the Colorado School of Mines.

Fortune

When science meets poetry 🌎📜

New blog entry from #Expedition501 ➡️ https://expedition501.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/pure-poetry/

📷Yakutchik@ECORD_IODP3_NSF

#ECORDScienceOperator #NewEngland #ScientificOceanDrilling #OceanScience

Pure poetry

Beneath ocean floorFossil roots sleep in old soilWhispers of past land Geoscientist Sara Polanco penned this exquisite poem, a haiku, to describe a core that recently arrived on deck of the L/B ROB…

IODP³-NSF Expedition 501: New England Shelf Hydrogeology