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LacCore: National Lacustrine Core Facility

The LRC LacCore Facility supports lake sediment research in the field and laboratory, as well as through the curation of cores and distribution of samples.

Funded by NSF and the University of Minnesota, the Repository was established in 2000 and today archives several thousand meters of high quality sediment cores from large and small expeditions to lakes all around the world. LacCore staff support field, lab and curatorial logistics for lake drilling and coring projects at any locale, and fill sample and data requests for archived cores.

Within the University of Minnesota, LacCore maintains close ties with the Large Lakes Observatory (LLO) in Duluth and actively interacts and collaborates with the Institute for Rock Magnetism (IRM), the Minnesota Isotope Lab (TIMS and Stable Isotope Labs), the Minnesota Geological Survey, and the Departments of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior and Geography.

Core processing lab in Pillsbury Hall Analytical facilities in Shepherd Laboratories Microscope lab in Pillsbury Hall