UPDATE: AFTER A SHORT DELAY, THE L/B KAYD LAUNCHED AT APPROXIMATELY 10:30 DST, APRIL 30. April 30, 2009, Atlantic City, NJ—An international team of researchers working under the auspices of the Integrated Ocean Drilling program launched the New Jersey Shallow Shelf Expedition this morning in the early hours, taking advantage of the high tide to sail to the continental shelf just off the New Jersey shore. There, they will conduct coring operations to collect geological sediments that will inform them about Earth cycles that relate to sea level change, the mechanisms that force it, and that have impacted the geography...