27 PROGRAM NEWS the MD203 ACCLIMAtE expedition was the first coring cruise onboard the Research Vessel Marion Dufresne since her midlife refit in 2015 (Rousseau et al. 2016). taking place in March 2016 in the south Atlantic Roaring Forties and Howling Fifties, this cruise provided a full-scale exercise to test, in rough sea conditions, the latest generation of sediment coring equipment. to illustrate the unprecedented quality of long sediment sequences taken with the improved giant CALYPsO piston corer, we compared two deep-water cores collected ~13 km apart on the south African margin (Fig. 1): (1) core MD02-2587 taken in 2002 with the former coring facilities and (2) core MD16-3510 recovered with the new coring facilities.
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