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Support for researchers who core and drill on land and in lakes
Chloe Allen from University of Victoria BC will analyze CT scans of cores from the ancient Roman concrete harbor structures collected by the Roman Archaeological Concrete Survey to determine the spatial distribution of pore space and aggregate particles.
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Chloe Allen from University of Victoria BC will analyze CT scans of cores from the ancient Roman concrete harbor structures collected by the Roman Archaeological Concrete Survey to determine the spatial distribution of pore space and aggregate particles.
VGSP Savannah Rivera from University of Oklahoma is sampling cores collected from three sites in Lake Tanganyika to study the impact of land use and climate change on the sediment over the past few thousand years.
November 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
VGSP Savannah Rivera from University of Oklahoma is sampling cores collected from three sites in Lake Tanganyika to study the impact of land use and climate change on the sediment over the past few thousand years.
VGSP Carson McFarland from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee is sampling cores collected in 2023 in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania for volcanic layers which he will correlate to previously described geologic units using geochemistry and mineralogy.
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
VGSP Carson McFarland from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee is sampling cores collected in 2023 in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania for volcanic layers which he will correlate to previously described geologic units using geochemistry and mineralogy.
Due today! Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
October 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Due today! Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
Due this Friday! Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
October 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Due this Friday! Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
October 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
Apply now for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
October 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Apply now for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
It's that time again! Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
October 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It's that time again! Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
Researchers from University of the Republic of Uruguay are splitting and describing cores collected in coastal lagoons between Uruguay and Brazil. They will use XRF, grain size, diatoms, and stable isotope data to study anthropogenic impacts and long term sea level oscillations.
October 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Researchers from University of the Republic of Uruguay are splitting and describing cores collected in coastal lagoons between Uruguay and Brazil. They will use XRF, grain size, diatoms, and stable isotope data to study anthropogenic impacts and long term sea level oscillations.
This week Lydia Olaka from the Technical University of Kenya, Cat Beck from Hamilton College and CSD staff collected water samples at springs and water sources around Turkana, Kenya for major ion chemistry, trace metals, and isotopes as preliminary work for the Turkana Basin Drilling Project.
October 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This week Lydia Olaka from the Technical University of Kenya, Cat Beck from Hamilton College and CSD staff collected water samples at springs and water sources around Turkana, Kenya for major ion chemistry, trace metals, and isotopes as preliminary work for the Turkana Basin Drilling Project.
CSD staff hosted a successful workshop on scientific drilling with Lydia Olaka from the Technical University of Kenya and Cat Beck from Hamilton College at the Colloquium for African Geology in Nairobi this weekend. We are thrilled to connect with the next generation of geoscientists in the region.
September 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
CSD staff hosted a successful workshop on scientific drilling with Lydia Olaka from the Technical University of Kenya and Cat Beck from Hamilton College at the Colloquium for African Geology in Nairobi this weekend. We are thrilled to connect with the next generation of geoscientists in the region.
Researchers from University of Pittsburgh are resampling cores collected in 2015 from Lake Junin, Peru to expand their data to include more glacial and interglacial cycles. This research will reveal what controls the South American summer monsoon under different conditions.
September 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Researchers from University of Pittsburgh are resampling cores collected in 2015 from Lake Junin, Peru to expand their data to include more glacial and interglacial cycles. This research will reveal what controls the South American summer monsoon under different conditions.
Researcher Paige Kohler from Michigan State University is back in the lab - this time sampling for paleomagnetic data to provide age constraints for her cores from the Lake Erie central basin. Paige is researching biogeochemical cycling in the Great Lakes throughout the Holocene.
September 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Researcher Paige Kohler from Michigan State University is back in the lab - this time sampling for paleomagnetic data to provide age constraints for her cores from the Lake Erie central basin. Paige is researching biogeochemical cycling in the Great Lakes throughout the Holocene.
CSD Facility Researcher Vania Stefanova is teaching Carl Martin from Calvin College to identify pollen from cores collected in Flat Iron Lake, Michigan.
September 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
CSD Facility Researcher Vania Stefanova is teaching Carl Martin from Calvin College to identify pollen from cores collected in Flat Iron Lake, Michigan.
These cores from Gull Lake, CA are being sampled by researchers from Georgia Southern University for stable isotopes, total organic carbon, and X-ray fluorescence to complement previous work on diatoms.
September 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
These cores from Gull Lake, CA are being sampled by researchers from Georgia Southern University for stable isotopes, total organic carbon, and X-ray fluorescence to complement previous work on diatoms.
Sam Randall from Western Washington University is describing cores collected from small high altitude lakes near Mount Baker, WA. He is focusing on tephra deposits from the most recent explosive eruption around 6,700 years ago to study how the magma changed throughout the duration of the eruption.
August 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Sam Randall from Western Washington University is describing cores collected from small high altitude lakes near Mount Baker, WA. He is focusing on tephra deposits from the most recent explosive eruption around 6,700 years ago to study how the magma changed throughout the duration of the eruption.
Professor Kate Flick from the College of Menominee Nation recently visited the lab to split the cores she collected in Berry Lake, WI with the help of Facility staff last winter.
August 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Professor Kate Flick from the College of Menominee Nation recently visited the lab to split the cores she collected in Berry Lake, WI with the help of Facility staff last winter.
USGS geologists are studying how earthquakes are represented in sedimentary records using archival New England cores from the 70s & 80s to look for evidence of the 1638 New Hampshire & 1755 Cape Ann events. Stanley Lake, ID cores provide them a modern record of the 2020 M6.5 Stanley earthquake.
August 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
USGS geologists are studying how earthquakes are represented in sedimentary records using archival New England cores from the 70s & 80s to look for evidence of the 1638 New Hampshire & 1755 Cape Ann events. Stanley Lake, ID cores provide them a modern record of the 2020 M6.5 Stanley earthquake.
Researchers from Georgia Southern University are splitting and sampling cores from Lake Ypacaraí, Paraguay to study Holocene climate variations using stable isotopes and sediment characteristics such as grain size and shape from magnetic susceptibility data.
August 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Researchers from Georgia Southern University are splitting and sampling cores from Lake Ypacaraí, Paraguay to study Holocene climate variations using stable isotopes and sediment characteristics such as grain size and shape from magnetic susceptibility data.
VGSP Hunter Allen from Northern Arizona University is working on cores from lakes across Alaska as part of a large project studying glacial-fed lakes. Hunter uses these sediment cores that span the deglacial to the Holocene, trying to identify how changes in past climate impacted glaciers.
July 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
VGSP Hunter Allen from Northern Arizona University is working on cores from lakes across Alaska as part of a large project studying glacial-fed lakes. Hunter uses these sediment cores that span the deglacial to the Holocene, trying to identify how changes in past climate impacted glaciers.
CSD Facility staff recently returned from coring Lake Ypacaraí, Paraguay in support of a project to explore the history of environmental change in the context of urbanization and agricultural applications in the watershed since early Spanish colonization.
July 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
CSD Facility staff recently returned from coring Lake Ypacaraí, Paraguay in support of a project to explore the history of environmental change in the context of urbanization and agricultural applications in the watershed since early Spanish colonization.
University of Toledo researchers are collecting sediment samples for genetic analyses to understand how aquatic communities responded to the marine incursion events in Lake Izabal and Golfete, Guatemala.
July 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
University of Toledo researchers are collecting sediment samples for genetic analyses to understand how aquatic communities responded to the marine incursion events in Lake Izabal and Golfete, Guatemala.
Researchers from Missouri S&T are generating lithologic descriptions and analyzing XRF data to identify marine incursion events in Lake Izabal Guatemala that caused the well-mixed lake waters to stratify and form anoxic bottom environments throughout the Holocene.
July 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Researchers from Missouri S&T are generating lithologic descriptions and analyzing XRF data to identify marine incursion events in Lake Izabal Guatemala that caused the well-mixed lake waters to stratify and form anoxic bottom environments throughout the Holocene.
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July 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
These happy visitors know how important our lab technicians are - and we're hiring! Please share this posting with anyone in the Twin Cities area who may be interested. lnkd.in/g9UNs4kY
Researchers from University of Notre Dame are sampling for aquatic and terrestrial organic molecules to examine the impacts of hydroclimate and sea level changes on Lake Izabal, Guatemala.
July 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Researchers from University of Notre Dame are sampling for aquatic and terrestrial organic molecules to examine the impacts of hydroclimate and sea level changes on Lake Izabal, Guatemala.