The morning shift hits different on a rig site.

The Core Runners: Scorch Trials.

DeepDust Scientists are guarding Pandora Crate#29.

Early morning core run with some new crew from Beloit College

Late night into very early morning core run.

Day 1 of the DeepDust Teacher Outreach Event. 30 Teachers from across Oklahoma came to take a look...

Early morning fog while working on the core.

First rain in weeks on the drill site.

Film crew showed up on site today. Working to capture some footage of coring operations!

Kathy and Fred are working in the mud hut collecting samples for an interval that had to be drilled...

Core is coming up looking great! Lots of great sed features showing up!

Cooking at DeepDust! Natsuko made curry and Andrew made Baklava.

Kat Cantner films drilling operations to prepare training materials for future continental...

During a lull in coring, the Science Party took a trip to the Wichita Mountains to check out the...

Interesting fractures in mudstones

Deep Dust drill rig at dawn

Leandro capping sections from today's run

Just passed 1000 feet (~305 m) of core recovered

Microbiology Sampling

Night time inspection

Morning Sectioning

Full inspection

What's inside the core?

Daytime Section Cutting

Overhead operations

40 feet (~12 m) of core!

Bringing in the team!

Schlumberger was onsite today logging the first 1000 feet of the well. Next we clean the borehole...

Science Party's first day on the rig.

We are fully rigged up and the well has spudded.

Auger preparing for the conductor pipe.

Heavy equipment was mobilized to the drill site this week and is prepping the drill pad. Looking...

A team of the project came to Potsdam for the Sample & Data Management training to learn and...