Curation and Core Handling Lab Working Group Minutes

09/27/13

Present: Brad Julson, Amy McWilliams, Katerina Petronotis, Paul Foster, David Houpt, Rakesh Mithal, Don Sims, Kevin Grigar, Phil Rumford

Item 1: Comments from Exp. 341

None relevant to curation.

Item 2: Half Core APC.

Half Advanced Piston Corer (Half APC) is used to recover high-quality cores from short intervals of soft sediment between hard layers (e.g., ooze/chalk between chert layers) and to extend the depth of a piston core hole.

A table showing current core types is shown below: