ALT The Expedition 397 group photo on the bow of the ship.

ALT Science party members work on samples from site U1488A in the chemistry laboratory: (clockwise from top left) Bryce Mitsunaga (Organic Geochemist, Brown University, USA), Lucien Nana Yobo (Inorganic/Organic Geochemist, Texas A&M University, USA), Sophie Hines (Inorganic Geochemist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA), and Jiawang Wu (Inorganic Geochemist, Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

ALT Photo from IODP Expedition 318. Photo is a panoramic view of the Antarctic coast with a dark blue ocean in the foreground and ice sheets in the background. Caption: View of the Antarctic coast from Site U1357. Credit Etiienne Claassen, IODP/TAMU.

ALT Photo from IODP Expedition 374. Photo shows a dark blue ocean with a field of sea ice in the distance. Caption: After several weeks of ice-free operations in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, winds from the east push a tongue of sea ice toward the vessel, forcing us to temporarily abandon Site U1524. Credit: William Crawford, IODP JRSO.

ALT Photo from IODP Expedition 379. Photo shows a dark blue ocean with an iceberg in the background and a breaching humpback whale in the foreground. Caption: Breaching humpback whale with an iceberg. Credit: Reed Scherer & IODP.

ALT Photo from IODP Expedition 382. Photo shows a dark blue ocean with an iceberg in the center with a chinstrap penguin on it. Caption: A chinstrap penguin contemplates a leap from a growler iceberg into the icy Scotia Sea. Credit: Thomas Ronge & IODP.