EXP400 ALO Technical Report

Owned by jr_barnes
Last updated: Oct 09, 2023
2 min read

 Heather Barnes and Doris Pinero

Expedition Info

Expedition 400 departed Iceland on Aug 17, 2023 and returned October 13, 2023. The expedition recovered sedimentary material with some rock (drop stone). Total recovery was 2299.10 m of core. Max Witek sailed as Thin Section technician. The cores will be offloaded in Amsterdam and are under EXP400T in AMS. All air freight and World Courier will be offloaded in Iceland.

COVID Protocol 

No hotel quarantine. Five days of covid mitigation onboard (masked and testing daily). We had several cases of covid which prolonged our shipboard mitigation. The only issue was that there were not enough quarantine rooms for everyone to have their own room, so covid cases had to double up in the quarantine rooms.

Shipping

CORE REEFERS (Off going in Amsterdam 400T)

1 x Working halves and residues going to BCR. 10 pallets of 15, 2 pallets of 14 each, 1 pallet of residues. 

1 x Archive halves going to GCR plus gas rack of empty 'single bottles'. 10 pallets of 15, 2 pallets of 14 and gas rack.

FAF

1 pallet by bridge deck elevator

RAF

2 kboxes by bridge deck elevator

SCHLUMBERGER (AF)

1 wooden crate on Heli deck

WORLD COURIER

2 x Frozen GDI80 world courier: ZIMM to Denmark, to be offloaded in Iceland.

1 x Frozen DGI45 world courier: TIBB to USA, to be offloaded in Iceland.

Inventory

IODP Store

  • Sold out of several items and had to use items in the display.

LAB Items

  • ROPs and RSLs were adjusted as needed, based on required amount to last until end of program.

General Notes:

  • Mettler Toledo balance #51049 is broken and is in 'pending EXP400T' in AMS for return to IODP. A box for it is being sent to the ship. 

  • The Sigma Aldrich USB stick on the ALO computer (SDSs) is no longer usable and Sigma Aldrich are no longer producing that product. Brad advised we should use AMS for SDSs. The SDSs for each chemical purchased is attached to the REQ. 

  • 150 heavy duty core pallets are coming to the ship in Amsterdam from Bremen. We need to forward 25 (or more?) to GCR in the SURF container leaving 400T.

  • Mettler balance stage will be hand carried to IODP by Julson. Paleo slides to be hand carried by Julson or Mitch to Leah Levay.

  • One dishwasher bottle opened inside the UTS drawer. Everything was cleaned. The mask boxes look damaged on the outside, but masks on inside were verified to be ok.

  • The password in the IODPS folder for the PAX CC machine is not correct - do you know what it is?

  • We started to send items back to IODP for DEMOB (eg Handheld Minolta).

  • Laurel Childress created two programs for visually reviewing the amount of gas (headspace) in the cores. They are written in R and installed in OPS, LO, other and ALO computers.

  • Orings on sediment traps are missing (accidently thrown out when emptying?). 

  • Blue mats are stored by RAD VAN, if you want them for the Transit and Tie-up.

Load Outs

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