Facilities, equipment and infrastructure

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Facilities, equipment and infrastructure
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• Additional drilling technology
• Core curation
• Sample access
• Core processing facilities
• Database
• Data access

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Additional drilling technology

• Improved GLAD800 current barge system cost
  750k Desire to drill deeper lakes - 3M to 5M,
  new barge, new rig, etc., modular
• Need for Jack-ups rare enough rental
• Capability to log while tripping out ICDP is
  developing 2 years
• (geotechnical capability commercial
  application)
• Additional rigs as community needs develop
• Capability to obtain biogeochemical/ microbial
  samples (solid and fluid, esp. GW) without
  contamination
• ARI (stimulus ) proposals require 30 cost share
  for non-profits a huge road block for DOSECC

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Site survey capability (funding)

• Current mechanism SGER, band-aid approach
• Need more coherent mechanism
• Approach IRIS

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Drilling in extreme environments

• Existing equipment OK to 300C
• QAQC for deep biosphere sampling has been done
  by others

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Core facilities

• Hard rock repository is lacking
• Encourage BEG to try again?
• Need to emphasize the value of cores (cf.
  cuttings)
• May need to be selective in what gets archived
  emphasize cores

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On-site core logging

• Series of mobile labs for different needs
• Whole core MSCL and technician on a van that can
  be shipped out for projects mobile lab for
  minimal measurements
• different needs for soft sediment and hard
  rocks?
• Geobiology and geochemistry mobile lab
  freezing, clean lab, DNA extraction
• Geoinformatics van

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Geoinformatics

• Agency requirements
• Application to education and outreach broadening
  community
• Metadata generation, metadata and data permanent
  storage
• Turn-key solution for project PIs
• Develop protocol for handling hard rocks
• Legacy data