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Coring Paleolimnology Workshop (2009)

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© 2009 University of Idaho FISH 503 - contact Frank Wilhelm for permission to use any image.

Freeze coring
Freeze Coring video

Watch Dan's video of core retrieval and scraping

  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. Close-up of sectioning, approx. 1 cm intervals.  
Gravity coring (K-B corer)
Core with oxidized surface layer and worm tubes Core with oxidized surface layer and worm tubes Core with high organic matter at surface Core with high organic matter at surface
Core with oxidized surface overlying reduced sediment Entirely reduced material over clay base Core tube transported Extruding tray
   
Extruding tray Dried and ashed sediment    
       
Oxygen - Winkler titrations    

Tim and Shannon adding MnSO4 and Alkali-iodide to fix oxygen

Floc formation in presence of oxygen Ben ready to add acid to samples Adding acid to liberate iodine from floc
Samples ready for titration Cindy measuring out volume to be titrated Titrating to straw colored end-point, then adding starch and discharging blue. Shannon demonstrating her HACH MS5 and Surveyor to the class