Professor Damon Teagle, from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton and a veteran of numerous
scientific ocean
drilling expeditions, said: «It is very exciting for IODP to be using a British
ship and new technologies to investigate the strange reactions that occur when seawater meets rocks of the upper mantle.
He participated in several
scientific cruises both in New Zealand waters overlying the continental shelf with NZ based groups and in the southern Pacific with the big time, Ocean
Drilling Program research
ships funded by the U.S.