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What Will Happen If This Iconic Research Vessel Stops Drilling in the Deep Sea?
The JOIDES Resolution in 2012 off the coast of Costa Rica, on an expedition to understand how earthquakes form Arito Sakaguchi & IODP/TAMU via Wikimedia Commons In July 2022, a football-sized, soft-sided UPS package from Germany arrived in my …