<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><h2 style="margin:12px 0px 10px;padding:0px 10px;font-size:20.93000030517578px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(22,54,122);line-height:22px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Drilling and Coring Summer Institute</h2><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">A comprehensive two-week hands-on training course for graduate students, postdocs, and early-career researchers, especially those who will be involved in continental scientific drilling or coring projects in the next ~five years.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></p><center style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Two sessions in 2017: <br><u>June 26 - July 7</u> and <u>July 24 - August 4</u> <br>University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus</b></center><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Summer Institute is offered by LacCore and the Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office (CSDCO), and is taught primarily by <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kuc0sF0AAAAJ&hl=en" style="color:rgb(68,106,188)">Dr. Amy Myrbo</a>, with other LacCore/CSDCO staff and guest presenters.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Participants’ costs are limited to personal transportation and some meals. Expenses for participant lodging (dorm room double occupancy), materials, field trips, equipment use, LacCore/CSDCO personnel time, and most meals are funded by the National Science Foundation.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Topics in the classroom and field may include, pending availability and participant interest:</b></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Site selection and survey:</b> Ground-penetrating radar (GPR), CHIRP seismics. Interpretation of geophysical data. Water chemistry profiling and sampling.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Project planning and management:</b> workshop planning and execution, budget development, personnel and time allocation, equipment and sample import/export, contracting, preparation of NSF and ICDP proposals, field logistics, project management software, data management, core handling and field curation, post-field logistics, tracking, allocation. </p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Broader impacts:</b> developing meaningful outreach, diversity, and education activities. Teaching with cores in formal and informal education settings.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Free and open source core software and resources:</b> CoreWall/Corelyzer, PSICAT, Correlator/Feldman, TMI, Flyover Country. Geoinformatics, databases, EarthCube.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Coring and drilling equipment:</b> Ekman dredge, HTH gravity surface corer, Griffith drive rod piston surface corer, modified Bolivia surface corer, Livingstone/Bolivia square rod piston corers, Nesje percussion corer, vibracorer, Kullenberg gravity piston corer, Winkie drill, diamond-bit wire-line drilling tools for soft and hard sediments, downhole logging, field subsampling and processing.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Initial core description (ICD):</b> Multisensor core logging, core splitting, surface preparation, digital imaging, petrographic smear slides, coarse fractions, lithological description, core correlation and composite depth scales, facies interpretation, subsampling, curation. </p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Downstream analyses:</b> Scanning X-ray fluorescence (XRF), environmental scanning electron microscopy (SEM), color analysis using digital images, age-depth modeling using Bacon software, tours of other UMN Twin Cities facilities.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Presentation:</b> Giving lightning talks and better scientific presentations. <br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#FF0000">To apply</font></b>, fill out the form at <a href="http://z.umn.edu/dcsiapply" style="color:rgb(68,106,188)">http://z.umn.edu/dcsiapply</a> by 11 PM Central Time April 1, 2017. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance status by April 17, 2017.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Enrollment is limited to 15 participants in each 2017 course. Additional courses of varying lengths will be scheduled in 2018 and beyond. <i>Ad hoc individual and group training in any of the listed topics can be arranged with LacCore/CSDCO outside of this workshop as well.</i></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please contact <a href="mailto:amyrbo@umn.edu" style="color:rgb(68,106,188)">Amy Myrbo</a> with questions.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://lrc.geo.umn.edu/laccore/DCSI_flyer_20170129.pdf" style="color:rgb(68,106,188)">Print-friendly color flyer</a> (1.6 MB .pdf)</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 1em;font-size:12.609999656677246px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><em>The Drilling and Coring Summer Institute is funded by the National Science Foundation - Instrumentation and Facilities Program as part of the CSDCO cooperative agreement (NSF-IF-1338382).</em></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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