37 Audio and Video
Podcast Series
Tales from the Deep: Stories of Scientific Ocean Drilling is a collection of recorded audio conversations in StoryCorps Archive that shares the experiences of students through retired professionals in the scientific ocean drilling community. Episodes highlight the range of careers connected to scientific ocean drilling, the scientific and social experiences of sailing on the drill ships and mission-specific platforms, as working with archive core material from the repositories.
Individual Podcast Episodes
The Smoko Podcast (2024) – Dr. Emily Estes: Geomicrobiologist & IODP (International Ocean Discovery Program) Staff Scientist. Audio online with show notes and transcript.
Unexplainable (2021) – How an ill-fated undersea adventure in the 1960s changed the way scientists see the Earth. On Spotify. Article/audio on Vox.
Third Pod from the Sun (2018). E11 – Deep Sea Drilling with Dawn [Wright]. Audio online with transcript.
Oral History Archive
Oral Histories of Scientific Ocean Drilling aims to collect and preserve the history of seafloor exploration through the experts who have contributed to it from multiple perspectives, institutions, fields of expertise, and time periods. The project is developed at the Institute for Marine-Earth Exploration and Engineering (MarE3), from the Japan Agency of Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan). It is funded by the JAMSTEC Young Research Fellowship 2023-2026.
Videos
Several videos are contained within the pages of this OER, with additional videos available on the JOIDES Resolution YouTube site
Videos discussing Project Mohole
- Project Mohole Global Marine Deep Sea Drilling Operation into Earth’s Mantle 21084 (PeriscopeFilm)
- The First Deep Ocean Drilling (National Academy of Sciences)
Documentary North Pond: The Search for intraterrestrials (OKI Productions and C-DEBI, 1 hour 36 min)
Interview Transcripts
- Van Keuren, D.K., (1995, March 20). An Interview with Dr. Gordon Lill. History Office, Naval Research Laboratory, 44 pp. (PDF file)
- Congressional Hearing with Willard Bascom about Project Mohole (1961, May 22).