Here's the late Art vs Artist compilation for 2025 (along with the last three past years)
I'm happy with the things I got to do last year... but I hope I make more time to draw and use traditional media in 2026. (And I hope I can continue to do SciComm comics and illustrations.)
Another photo dump from Chikyu.
1 - This is from a couple of days ago, when it was still nice weather and pleasant to walk on the helideck
2 - Yesterday strong winds and rain arrived.
3 - Drill crew have some Scots, so it truly sounded and felt like being back at a North Sea rig.
4 - We did some preliminary work for the upcoming expedition. Here is looking at sonar data.
5 - We made contact with seabed at about ~5.5 km for jetting. Curious rat-tail fish joined in, probably interested in the light of the underwater TV. I think we counted max of seven at a time. They were having a party down there.
@txgeosciences@jamstec
I am on D/V #Chikyu again for #IODP Expedition 502e. We are here to retrieve, maintain, re-program, re-deploy the temperature sensors from the two borehole observatories from last year's expedition (#JTRACK /Expedition 405).
It's been an exciting couple of days. We managed to retrieve all 185 sensors, individually connect to them one by one to download the recorded data from the past year, do some maintenance, and re-program them... all within the span of ~24 hours.
@txgeosciences@jamstec
I didn't remember to take many photos, but here are some snapshots from last week. This was the International Continental Drilling Program workshop about planning to drill into the eastern flank of Mount Etna for ✨science✨ (to better understand the physical mechanisms and triggers of volcano flank sliding).
#ICDP #mountetna @icdpdrilling
Congratulations to our 2025 DASH grant recipient: Nur Schuba!
Short Run is honored to help support the final production of Nur Schuba’s Chikyu Chronicles with a $500 grant.
Chikyu Chronicles is a bilingual (English & Japanese) science adventure comic based on Nur’s real-life experience as an onboard science communicator for IODP Expedition 405 aboard the deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu. Through humor, sequential storytelling, and approachable illustrations, the comics introduce readers to scientific ocean drilling, earthquake research, and life at sea. The book follows scientists and a fictionalized version of Nur as they navigate a high-tech research vessel, and try to understand strange scientific tools.
