Core Retrieval

The Core Facility operates a number of different coring systems suited to different lake sizes and sediment thicknesses.

Surface coring
MUCK
Freeze corer
Ekman dredge

Shallow lakes (< ~30m): push piston coring
Bolivia/Livingstone new, revised, and much improved, March 2008

Mid-depth lakes (~30-200m): gravity piston coring
Kullenberg

Deep lakes (> 200m): drilling
GLAD200 and GLAD800

Water sampling
Hydrolab Quanta
Sampling kits

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Core image: Brush Lake, Montana
updated March 12, 2008