December 2, 1999

Dave DeMaster, Mark McClintic, and Sue Boehme celebrate a successful boxcore.

Our watch brought more boxcores and mega cores... We finally had some real successes in the boxcore department! Obtaining a decent boxcore has become something of a quest for an illusive grail. After a few miserable attempts, in a rough sea, we were finally getting the knack of it (or getting lucky). The surface interface was undisturbed and in good shape. This particular core had been subdivided into several sections, in order that precious sediment be shared among various researchers.

Boxcore contents.

Nobody was more happy than Sue Boehme, an American recently returned to Rutgers University from a post-doctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany. She is on board as a radio isotope specialist with a background in carbon isotope biogeochemistry. Her area of expertise has been in developing techniques for analyzing a variety of fluxes, in situ, or in a field situation. As part of DeMaster's chemistry-oriented group, Sue would be looking at carbon flux, among other things, and she was just as happy digging into a fresh juicy core as running analyses in her lab on the Gould.

Sue Boehme, before...

...and after.