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Looking toward the future of ocean drilling

Nature Geoscience spoke with Susanne M. Straub, an igneous geochemist at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory; Susan Q. Lang, a chemical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and Yige Zhang, a palaeoceanographer at the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, about science supported by deep ocean drilling and the impact of the recent decommissioning the JOIDES Resolution drilling vessel run by the International Ocean Discovery Program.

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Super, J. Looking toward the future of ocean drilling. Nat. Geosci. 17, 1189–1192 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01600-4

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