Acknowledgements

I am grateful to ANU Press for giving me the opportunity to tell part of the Glomar Challenger story. Brian Kennett, as Chair of ANU Press’s Editorial Board for Science and Engineering, steered the book through its early stages. For editing and comments on an earlier version of the manuscript thanks go to Neville Exon and Bernadette Hince and to Geoffrey Hunt for careful copy editing. Two referees, Jo Whittaker of the University of Tasmania, and Kiyoshi Suyehiro of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) provided valuable overviews of the manuscript.

Any mistakes in the text are my own.

I owe thanks to Professor Stephen Eggins of the Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, for providing me with the opportunity to work in that research environment; to Brian Harrold for assistance with photographs; to Lynne Bean for discussions and to Leanne Armand, Program Scientist for the Australian and New Zealand International Ocean Discovery Program Consortium, for much encouragement.

Clive Hilliker has been an efficient draughtsman. Jane Truswell helped with particular illustrations and technical advice. Thanks are due to the many individual authors who allowed the reproduction of their illustrations, and to the institutions who were most helpful in providing access to maps and photographs. Included here are Geoscience Australia (with special thanks to Alix Post); the National Library of Australia; the State Library of Victoria; the Mitchell Library of the State Library of NSW; the Royal Geographical Society, London; the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge; Kew Gardens, London; and the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK. In Japan thanks are due to JAMSTEC, Tokyo.

In the United States I must thank the National Geographic Society, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the Estate of Marie Tharp, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and Princeton University Library.

Above all, I thank my shipmates on the Glomar Challenger, scientists, technicians, cooks, drillers and crew, for sharing the excitement of this voyage during long hours in laboratories, late night discussions, good cheer and the occasional social event. And for their abiding interest in the post cruise aspects of the science.