2007.03.01 • LacCore Funding Renewed
NSF has awarded a three-year grant renewal to continue LacCore operations. Staffing levels will remain constant and the expansion refrigerated repository space will be constructed and occupied within months. This new space will be designed to accommodate split cores of widely varying diameters, whole cores, cores not stored in D-tubes, grab/dredge samples, and other materials. Minor equipment upgrades will be made, including a trinocular head with digital camera and on-screen image capture for our petrographic microscope.
2007.02.01 • Upcoming Field/Outreach Activities
LacCore staff Kristina Brady, Amy Myrbo, and Anders Noren are leading three education-related coring expeditions this month. The first, to urban Brownie Lake in Minneapolis, is for an undergraduate Lab Workshop class on lake sediment analysis. Eleven students from Geology, Geography, and other departments will collect cores, describe and analyze them, collect historical information about the site, and present their findings in a poster session on April 30. Later in February, the staff will travel to Cloquet, MN, to participate in the Fond du Lac band's gidakiimanaaniwigamig winter camp for tribal middle-school students. In addition to demonstrating coring equipment and showing students what mud from different lakes over time looks and feels like, LacCore will be working with the Reservation's Environmental Program staff to begin a research project comparing long-term water quality in a lake with shoreline development to that of an undeveloped lake growing wild rice. The third trip is part of a continuing collaboration with high school teachers and students in Chippewa Falls, WI, who are researching environmental changes over the past 150 years in a local lake. Students and teachers from the Fond du Lac and Chippewa Falls groups will visit LacCore in March to conduct initial core description and sampling.
2006.10.04 • Updated listing of LacCore holdings
The Collections page on this website has been updated to show more of the cores, samples, data, and metadata archived at LacCore. You can now download a .kml file for viewing the geographical distribution of sites on Google Earth. If you want your cores/lakes shown on the map among the other sites, email the Curator.
2006.12.01 • CoreWall v0.8.5 available for free download
A new version of CoreWall has been posted on the web. CoreWall is the core image and data display software being developed and written by graduate students at the Electronic Visualization Lab, University of Illinois-Chicago, in conjunction with the LRC/LacCore, IODP, and numerous other institutions. Download at: http://www.corewall.org/downloads.php
2006.09.01 • A busy summer concludes
Between May 1 and September 1, 2006, LacCore hosted 78 visiting scientists for more than 400 visitor-days, and remotely assisted (through consultations, equipment rental, and field work) another 42 scientists more than 500 additional times.
2006.08.08 • Splicer/Sagan replacement available for free download
NCLIP is stratigraphic correlation tool designed to replace Splicer and Sagan. It is available for a variety of platforms, and its stability and ease of set-up and use are vastly improved. Download at: http://www.iagp.net/NClip/index.html
