Archiving is completed! 3.6 km of core has been split, photographed and lithologically described by logging the core centimeter by centimeter. Our Russian colleagues Dima and Sasha, who were the backbone of the archiving enterprise, are safely back in Petrosavodsk. After months of vigorous activity, the core repository is strangely quiet. But not for a long. We expect to see most of the FAR DEEP partners to collect specimens for their research at the sampling party that starts already in March. Check the information on the web and plan your sampling and research strategies.