This section documents the procedures and methods employed in the shipboard laboratories on the R/V JOIDES Resolution during International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 363. This information applies only to the shipboard work described in the Expedition Reports section of the Expedition 363 Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program volume. Methods used by investigators for shore-based analyses of Expedition 363 data and samples will be described in separate, individual publications. This introductory section provides an overview of operations, curatorial conventions, depth scale terminology, and general core handling and analyses.