Science AMA Series: We are Drs. Gulick, Morgan and Lowery. In spring we drilled into the Chicxulub impact crater. Now the whole science party has met for the first time to have a closer look at the cores. AMA!

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Hi Reddit,

We are scientists Sean Gulick, Joanna Morgan, and Chris Lowery. In April and May we drilled one hole into the Chicxulub impact crater just off the Yucutan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico. The 66 million-year-old crater is directly linked to the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs (and most other life forms on Earth). The drilling expedition is part of International Ocean Discovery Program expedition #364 co-led by Sean Gulick from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) and Joanna Morgan from the Imperial College London. Chris Lowery is a postdoctoral fellow at (UTIG). Since mid September we’re at the IODP-core repodistory in Bremen (Germany) where we have a closer look at more than 800 meters of core, split the core and take samples. Our hope is to better understand the physical makeup of the crater and how life on Earth recovered after the cataclysmic event.

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">Science AMA Series: We are Drs. Gulick, Morgan and Lowery. In spring we drilled into the Chicxulub impact crater. Now the whole science party has met for the first time to have a closer look at the cores. AMA!