Participants on
pond setting up extraction tripod and freeze corer
Dan Nelson
filling freeze corer with dry ice and ethanol, then closing it
Frozen
condensation on outside indicates the box is already cold
Lowering
corer through ice to sediments
Setting corer in
place for 20-30 minutes.
Rigging tripod to
extract corer after freezing in place for 20-30 minutes
Extracted corer
with sediment attached. The pond sediment was relatively hard given
it's a recently constructed pond.
Close-up of sediment before
scraping.
Shot of front face
Ben Ho with corer
Dan Nelson with corer.
Cindy Adams with
corer
Scraped sediment,
we think the first white layer is Mount St. Helens ash from 1980.
Run 2 with
leftover dry ice.
Core two
extracted and back on top.
Frank Wilhelm
scraping core two.
Cindy Adams and
Connie Bozarth sectioning one of the frozen faces by hand - we didn't have
access to a band saw in a walk-in freezer which is the usual way to section
this type of core.