Using LRC/LacCore facilities
Hundreds of researchers from institutions around the world use our facilities annually; costs are typically limited to supplies consumed.

Core Storage
Refrigerated (4°C) space for 10,000 meters of core, approximately 2,200 meters of which is at the Core Laboratory, and the remainder at two separate locations. Most of this space is in the form of racking for standard 1.5m ODP D-tubes. A refrigerated shipping container is also available for field storage and core transport to Minneapolis.

LRC Core Laboratory

• Large (~3,800 square-foot) laboratory with ample space for rapid, efficient core processing and dedicated stations for most procedures
• Dual medical cast saw core splitter
• Band saw for splitting indurated sediments
• Geotek standard multi-sensor core logger • delivered March 2004; whole- or split-core logging for gamma density, acoustic (p-wave) velocity, electrical resistivity, and magnetic susceptibility
• Geotek XYZ multi-section automated split core logger • delivered August 2004; split-core logging for high-resolution magnetic susceptibility, natural gamma radiation, and color spectrophotometry
• DMT CoreScan digital linescan camera • 100 or 200 pixels/cm, whole-core, glare-free images
• Geotek Geoscan-III digital linescan camera • 100, 200, or 400 pixels/cm, whole-core, glare-free images
• Core description tables and cradles
• Stations for: sampling, biogenic silica, diatom preparation, pollen prep, thin section prep, grain size prep, XRD prep, stable isotope prep, smear slide prep, pollen concentrate AMS-14C prep
• Liquid analysis spectrophotometer
• Binocular, petrographic, pollen, and diatom microscopes
• Centrifuges, drying ovens, fume hoods
• Freeze dryer
• Programmable muffle furnace
• UIC TIC & TC coulometer

Field Equipment
For surface cores: gravity corer, freeze corer, Hongve, Eckman dredge
For long cores: Kullenberg corer, Livingstone corer (with or without single-use liner modification), Mackereth corer, Nesje corer, vibracoring system for Livingstone corer
Two Carolina Skiff boats (for Kullenberg platform, with 20-foot tower and moonpool), pontoon boat with moonpool, 18-foot row/motorboat, 4 canoes, cataraft with solid platform and moonpool
Refrigerated shipping container for climate-controlled field storage and transport
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) for site surveys

Transportation
Two four-wheel-drive vehicles, for field work and transportation to Repository

Affiliated Resources
LacCore maintains strong connections with centers and institutions on the University campus and neighboring locations.