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doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.301.103.2005

Acknowledgments

Given the limited time available between scheduling and the start of Expedition 301 (~9 months), the design, construction, and deployment of CORK systems could not have been accomplished without the extraordinary efforts of many individuals. We are grateful for the dedication, skill, and ingenuity of numerous Transocean personnel while at sea, including Core Technicans Joe (Bubba) Attryde and Phil Christie, Operations Manager Wayne Malone, Tool Pusher Jose (Pepe) Estevez, and Drillers Nick Parrish and Charlie Watts. We also thank the shipboard technicians and the rest of the Expedition 301 science party for their assistance and patience. Two equipment/supply deliveries by helicopter during Expedition 301 were essential for completing the CORK installations; we thank the staff of the U.S. Implementing Organization for arranging these and for all of their support for Expedition 301. John Bennest, Dave Miles, Jonathan Schmidt, and Ken Beverley devoted many extra hours to make the pressure logging system come together under a very tight schedule, and Keith Shepherd and the pilots of ROV ROPOS and Captain Adam Parsons and the officers and crew of the Thomas G. Thompson provided the vehicles and expert help with handling postdrilling installations and OsmoSampler recovery. Josh Plant helped to build the OsmoSampler systems. William Rugh, Radu Popa, Stefan Sievert, and Michael Storrie-Lombardi helped to build microbiological flow cells. These experiments were supported by the U.S. Science Support Program for IODP; U.S. National Science Foundation grants OCE0400462 (CGW), OCE0400102 (HJ), OCE0400471 (KB), and OCE0241791 (KJE and WB); the NASA Exobiology program (MF) NSF projects OCE9618243 and BES97-14286; and NASA project NNA04CC08A (JC).

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