IN2018_V08: Hobart to Hobart Research Voyage

27 December 2018-10 January 2019 This voyage explores whether the Balleny mantle plume played a key role in the Tasmanian-Antarctica breakup. Educators on Board are Chris Meagher and Emily Fewster.

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BLOG 13: It takes a village to go on a voyage

By Emily Fewster The final day of the two-week long voyage is here, the ‘rock and roll’ tour of the […]

Identified rock from D03– Vesicular Basalt

BLOG 12: Why Geology

By Chris Meagher For this blog I asked the science team how they got interested in geology and why geology […]

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BLOG 11: Researcher Profile: Dr Rebecca Carey

By Chris Meagher What is your job title and role on this voyage? My name is Dr Rebecca Carey and […]

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BLOG 10: On New Year’s Day we had a whale of a time

By Emily Fewster In the first of the two rock dredges we carried out on New Year’s Day we found […]

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BLOG 9: Meet the Rock Stars – treasures from the deep

By Emily Fewster On this voyage our aim is to use the rocks collected from each dredge to help piece […]

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BLOG 8: Processing the Rocks

By Chris Meagher One of the major goals of this voyage is to identify the age of the seamounts in […]

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BLOG 7: Researcher Profile: Karin Orth

By Emily Fewster Name and job title: Karin Orth, Lecturer in Earth Sciences and Research Fellow at the University of […]

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BLOG 6: How do you get rock samples from an underwater volcano?

By Emily Fewster Have you ever been fishing and got your fishing line snagged on something when reeling in your […]

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BLOG 5: Mapping

By Chris Meagher A critical goal of this voyage is the underwater seabed mapping which occurs continuously whenever the ship […]