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6 July 2008

Ice Breaking!

• Welcome
• Cake coring activity
• Ocean Drilling Greatest Hits

7 July 2008

Drilling, Cores, and the Ocean Crust

• How and why we drill - the basics of drilling, coring, and important differences between industry (oil) and scientific drilling
• Core on deck - presentation of coring process on the ship
• Lab & Repository tour
• Sedimentation and lithostratigraphy
• Introduction to seafloor spreading and paleomagnetism

8 July 2008

Sediment Cores and Stratigraphy

• Biostratigraphy
• Magnetostratigraphy
• Curriculum, Connections, Communication (C3) time

9 July 2008

The Ultimate in Climate Change

• Hot Times on Planet Earth: the PETM
• Texas A&M campus tour: Geosciences Stable Isotope Lab
• PETM continued
• C3 time

10 July 2008

Paleoclimate from the Low Latitudes

• Field trip to Lake Somerville Upper Eocene outcrop with multiple coal layers interspersed with marine and ash layers
• C3 time
• Movie: "Ice Age, the Meltdown"

11 July 2008

Paleoclimate from the High Latitudes

• Window on Arctic climate evolution
• Saanich Inlet glacial lake floods

From Ophiolites to Oceanic Basalts

• Expedition 309/312: The "Hole Story"
• C3 time

12 July 2008

Logging and Physical Properties

• C3 time
• Logging and physical properties
• Site selection and seismic profiles - why drill here?

13 July 2008

Assimilation/C3

• Assimilation, writing, sharing plans, and extra lab time if needed
• Night at the Museum: Dinner at the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History

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