Topic I - Advances in limnogeology > I-7-From garage tips to very big deals: the never-ending challenge of taking mud from lake bottoms

 Conveners

1. Fabien Arnaud (EDYTEM / Continental Coring France / OSUG, CNRS, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, France)
2. Antje Schwalb (Institute of Geosystems and Bioindication, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
3. Anders Noren (LacCore, Minneapolis, USA)
4. Peter Dal Ferro (USGS -Pacific Coastal and Marine, USA)
5. Katja Heeschen (ICDP Operationnal Support Group, Potsdam, Germany

Despite humanity’s fantasy of colonizing other planets, taking a nice well-preseved piece of mud from a Planet Earth lake bottom remains a daily challenge for limnogeologists and paleolimnologists. Yet, taking a good core is the fundamental act conditionning most of our community’s studies. With this session we aim at offering a forum to those of us, researchers, engineers, technicians and managers who act to offer the community new tools and organisations that help us, both on the field and in the lab, with the scientific act of collecting, storing and handling cores.

The presentation of any initiative/innovation is welcomed, from the very smallest DIY low cost/low tech tips, up to big machines and international organisations, provided it permitts to investigate lake bottoms (bathymetry, sediment profiles, etc.), take cores (corers, platforms, etc.), as wele as storing and handling them in the lab (core openers, sampling benches, etc.). A particular attention will be paid to initiatives that favor open access, in the aim of sharing tips (open hardware) and opening access to mutualised ressources. If possible, we aim at accompanying this session with a half-day of demonstrations on Lake Bourget.