Credit: IODP-USIO

A year later than planned, the US research vessel JOIDES Resolution has been rebuilt. The ship departed from Singapore for Hawaii on 25 January after two years of overhaul and laboratory additions costing US$130 million (see _Nature_ 453, 7; 2008).

With more than 20 years of research-cruise experience, she is the sole US ship in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, which also includes the Japanese vessel Chikyu and European platforms. The JOIDES Resolution will drill cores in the bed of the equatorial Pacific to document extreme climate-change events.