A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea

By Lucas Kavanagh

In 2015, a scientific expedition set out to be the first to ever drill to the mantle. This is an archival feed of the podcast mini-series documenting that attempt.... more

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The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.

A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea episodes:

August 16, 2020 Chapter 4 - The Limits Of Life
Ginny and Jason search for life, hundreds of meters below the seafloor.
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27min
August 16, 2020 Chapter 3 - The Life Of A Core
Follow a sample of rock as it is analyzed by the many scientists in the onboard labs of the JOIDES Resolution.
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23min
August 16, 2020 Chapter 2 - The Theory That Changed Everything
An episode consisting of three stores: an idea that no one believed, how to start the hole itself, and an expedition of tragedy and discovery.
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20min
August 16, 2020 Chapter 1 - The JR Meets The Press
Media attention reveals public concern over expedition 360 and a brief introduction to the JOIDES Resolution and a couple of the people who call it home.
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20min
August 16, 2020 Prologue - The Quest To Touch The Mantle
What is the mantle and why do we want to get our hands on it so badly? On this first episode we talk to chief scientist Henry Dick and staff scientist Peter Blum about the history leading up to expedition 360 and what we might learn from the next two months.
Correction: this episode incorrectly states that seismic waves travel faster in denser rocks. The correct relationship is seismic waves travel faster in stiffer (more rigid and incompressible) rocks.
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23min
February 23, 2020 Episode 4 Passion
Dolphins or Dust? What would you choose? Scientists Rosie Sheward and Ann Dunlea talk to Claire about their excitement over the tiny things that can be found in sediment, and what they can tell us about past climate.
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26min
February 23, 2020 Episode 5 People
Science is a process supposed to eliminate all subjectivity so that we can truly understand the nature of the world around us. But science is a process created by people, and carried out by people! How does being at sea for long times affect people emotionally, and how can they overcome this to collaborate to advance science in a truly significant way? Claire speaks to Debbie Thomas, Kevin Grigar, Dan Marone and Ann Dunlea in this final episode of This is Science: Expedition 378.
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26min
February 19, 2020 Episode 3 Precision
'Core on Deck, Core on Deck' a phrase that kicks off a hive of activity on the JOIDES Resolution. Claire talks to JR tech Dan Marone about the choreography of the core flow through the labs, and to scientists Chris Hollis and Ann Dunlea about processing core samples.
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26min
February 12, 2020 Episode 2 Asking Questions
Geological time boggles the brain. Millions of years in the past the Earth looked very different than it does today. But the past is in the past, right, why dig it up? Well it might help for the pickle we seem to be getting ourselves in to. We can't run whole Earth climate experiments but we can look back at previous ones to ask questions about what might be to come. Scientists Debbie Thomas and Laura Haynes explain to Claire why Expedition 378 is focusing on the climate during the Paleogene period.
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26min
February 09, 2020 Episode 1 Big Ideas
Journeying to a remote area in the South Pacific Ocean to drill into the seabed floor to recover sediments for science - clever idea or crazy idea? What about the idea of drilling to the Earth's Mantle at a time when no proper equipment existed?! In this episode Claire talks to Lindy Newman about the amazing story behind how ocean drilling for science got started.
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26min

FAQs about A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea:

How many episodes does A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea have?

The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.