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Support for researchers who core and drill on land and in lakes

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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 2h
Sam Matson & Isaac Gagner (Univ of NE State Museum) are using our SEM to examine 12 Ma algal mats from Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park. Several mats preserve tracks, likely from bone-crushing dogs that scavenged on the rhinos, horses, and camels that died at the waterhole from inhaling ash
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Eric Leonard from Colorado College is accessioning 21 cores collected in the Canadian Rockies between 1979 and 2004. The material will be split and archived in our repository to support future research.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Aidan Brennan from Western Washington University is splitting cores collected in the Cascades of northern Washington to understand the timing, rate of motion, and morphology of deep seated slope deformations. Field photo by Alex Grant, USGS
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
VGSP Isabel Strachan from McGill University is sampling cores from lakes in Guatemala for analysis of fecal stanols. She will compare census data with the human waste indicators to see if quantitative demographics can be determined from the sediment proxy.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The ICDP DeepDust team has already collected 2151 feet of core from the Permian sediments of western Oklahoma. The cores record the history of equatorial Pangea during a crucial time of environmental change on Earth.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
VGSP Julia Bradshaw and Victoria Toriello from University of Connecticut and Aspen Hein from University of Oklahoma are sampling cores from Lake Tanganyika as part of the NSF BoCP project. The studies will allow for more detailed reconstructions of past environments and future changes in the lake
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Marta Wojewódka-Przybył from the Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, is sampling sediment cores collected from Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. She will analyze remains of tiny crustaceans to reconstruct how lake biological communities responded to climatic changes.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Tyler Karp and Ella Wood from the University of Chicago are sampling archived cores collected in the Pittsburgh Basin in southern Illinois in 1995. This is a pilot study to determine if lipid biomarkers in the sediment can detect the differences in the population densities of large herbivores.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
VGSP Oluwatunmise Akanmu from Georgia Southern U has split and described the cores he collected in Blue Ridge Lake, a reservoir formed following dam construction in 1930. He will combine sedimentological observations with geochemical analysis to study nutrient storage and environmental change.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The Trans Amazon Drilling Project team has finished splitting and sampling their cores from the 925 m deep borehole at Marajo, Brazil. Sample analysis will continue at the researcher's home institutions for phytoliths, charcoal, diatoms, ostracods, pollen, fish fossils and other geochemical proxies.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
CSD Facility staff are in the field in Turkana, Kenya supporting planning for the TARGET project. We are working on site selection, water access, camp planning, community engagement initiatives, and relationship development: www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This month 25 team members from 15 institutions and 5 countries are working to process 734 meters of core collected at the second drill site for the Trans Amazon Drilling Project. Initial results from their first site have been published in Scientific Drilling: sd.copernicus.org/articles/35/...
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Researchers from Washington University in Saint Louis are sampling cores collected from lakes Lachuá and Amatitlán in Guatemala for leaf waxes which will help them reconstruct Holocene hydroclimate and ecosystem changes.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
CSD Facility staff presented at the ICDP Workshop DeepCHB: Deep Chew Bahir Drilling Project in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This project aims to drill deep enough to access the base of the Quaternary, enabling detailed reconstructions of the region’s climatic, ecological, and anthropogenic evolution.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Researchers from the University of Kentucky are splitting gravity cores collected from Lake Tanganyika. Ancient environmental DNA and other proxies will be analyzed from subsamples of these cores to study the food web dynamics of this critical East African fishery.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
CSD Facility staff collected cores with the Kentucky Geological Survey in Lake Metropolis, Paducah, KY. They are investigating changes since European colonization, flood events, and heavy-metal pollution. The lake sits in the Ohio River floodplain, ~100 km before the confluence with the Mississippi.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Amarbat Otgonganbat from SUNY ESF is sampling cores he collected in Lake Dood Tsagaan, Mongolia to analyze biogenic silica and diatom taxonomy to determine whether water quality changes over the past few hundred years could be responsible for the decline in the endangered humpback whitefish.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
VGSP Lina Cabrera Saenz from Florida Inst of Tech is describing cores from Ecuador and Peru in regions with a long history of human occupation. She will use XRF data to study the ecological legacies of cultivation and forest management in Amazonia. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We are excited to roll out the zero waste program in the lab! facilities.umn.edu/our-services/waste-recycling-reuse/zero-waste
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We are hiring a new lab manager to operate the XRF core scanner in Duluth. Responsibilities include operating the XRF, interfacing with users, and overseeing data management. Requires regular travel between Duluth and Minneapolis - Apply now to join the team! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/373...
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Charlie Alavi from Western Kentucky University is sampling 13 cores collected during different projects in Jackson Lake, WY to isolate charcoal fragments preserved in the sediment. Charlie will compare their results with the historical record of fire activity in the area.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Students in Jill Coleman Wasik's Environmental Analysis at University of Wisconsin River Falls visited the lab to split and describe the cores they collected at Twin Lakes, WI this past winter.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Check out the NAS report on a Synthesis Center for Paleoenvironmental Records of Extreme Events. It examines how paleo data inform understanding of extreme events, reviews existing repositories and resources and identifies key considerations for a new center: nationalacademies.org/publications/29290
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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...
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Due tomorrow! Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
VGSP Will Vuyk from Penn State is splitting frozen cores collected on Ossabaw Island off the coast of Georgia. This interdisciplinary project seeks to explore the legacy of 5,000 years of water management through landscape modification on modern freshwater species distribution and ecology.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Apply this week for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Use the weekend to apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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...
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
VGSP Kasey Rodriguez from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is processing pollen from cores collected in 2022 in Sardinia. This study will extend the paleoclimatic record of Sardinia back 25,000 years and help researchers contextualize the history of stone age human occupation.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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...
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Sadie Southwell and Paige Kohler from Michigan State University are sampling cores for paleomagnetic data - this time from the Eastern Basin of Lake Erie. The project focuses on understanding past biogeochemical cycling in the Great Lakes to inform future restoration and water management targets.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Drew Osman and Sarah Gibson from St. Cloud State University are using historical records and surface cores from Ann Lake, MN to identify sediment proxies that may highlight differences on the residential and the Sand Dunes State Forest sides of the lake.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
CSD technician takes subsamples of rock cores from Unaweep Canyon, Colorado for Shannon Dulin from University of Oklahoma for paleomagnetic analysis.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Did you know we develop and support software for core data visualization, processing, and analysis? PSICAT is for core lithologic description that is built to fit the workflow of section-by-section core description. New PSICAT tutorials are up on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@csdfacility...
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The UMN Earth Surface Dynamics class split and described the cores collected at Twin Lake to learn about land use effects on lake sedimentation.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
CSD staff took University of Minnesota students in the Earth Surface Dynamics class out to collect surface cores on Twin Lake
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
CSD Facility staff presented at the Minnesota Earth Science Teachers Association annual conference last week to engage educators in core-focused classroom activities to address 6th and 9th grade science standards.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
On Saturday CSD Facility staff cored two sites on Schulz Lake with students from Carleton College. They sampled the full record through the bottom of the lake sediment to the glacial barrier below. Students will work to correlate these cores to those collected last year.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Dan Maxbauer from Carleton College brought his class to the lab yesterday to explore climate records in cores collected at local lakes Schulz and Holland. Students compared these with cores collected across Minnesota and in Lake Tanganyika.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Start the New Year off right by reading the CSD Paleoecology Working Group's article in Trends in Ecology and Evolution (TREE) "Advancing ecology and evolution through continental scientific drilling": www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The Federal Office of Science and Technology Policy is requesting input on Federal policy updates relevant to scientific research in America by December 26: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Today is the last day to visit our booth at AGU 2025 - Come find us at booth 823 before 1 pm today! We would love to catch up and hear what you're working on.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Attending AGU? Come visit us in the Exhibit Hall at booth 823! We would love to catch up and hear what you're working on.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Tonight! Meet ICDP and CSD Facility representatives and scientists for program updates and future developments at the ICDP-CSD Town Hall Meeting on Monday, December 15th at 6:30 pm at the SpringHill Suites New Orleans Warehouse District (301 Saint Joseph St.)
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Meet ICDP and CSD Facility representatives and scientists for program updates and future developments at the ICDP-CSD Town Hall Meeting on Monday, December 15th at 6:30 pm at the SpringHill Suites New Orleans Warehouse District (301 Saint Joseph St.) during the AGU Fall Meeting!
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Chloe Allen from University of Victoria BC is making descriptions of the marine encrustations preserved on the upper segments of the drill cores collected from ancient Roman harbor structures by the harbor sites by the Roman Archaeological Concrete Survey.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Chloe Allen from University of Victoria BC is describing and characterizing the biological encrustations and their impact on cores of Roman concrete collected from submerged harbor structures.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Researchers from DiSTAR at Univ. Federico II Italy, Univ. of Victoria BC, Univ. of Utah, and Univ. of Colorado is creating an archival database of drill cores of ancient Roman marine concrete collected from 11 harbor sites by the Roman Archaeological Concrete Survey.
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CSD Facility @csdfacility.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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.
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