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A-1 OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION
A-1.1 The Ocean Drilling Program
The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) has developed and extensive set of guidelines related to their large-scale, ship-based drilling operations. Because of the multi-investigator, multi-national character of ODP projects, standardization of methods is a critical consideration. Many of the ODP guidelines are directly adaptable to smaller-scale operations focused on sediments in lakes.
ODP guidelines are published in their Technical Report Series. They are available free of charge from:
Publications Distribution
Ocean Drilling Program
1000 Discovery Drive
College Station, Texas 77845-9547, U.S.A.
The following Technical Report (report numbers, titles, and dates) are especially pertinent to lake drilling operations:
· 3, Shipboard scientist's handbook (1990)
· 6, Organic geochemistry on the JOIDES Resolution - an assay (1986)
· 7, Shipboard organic geochemistry on JOIDES Resolution (1986)
· 8, Handbook for shipboard sedimentologists (1988)
· 9, Deep Sea Drilling Project data file documents (1988)
· 10, A Guide to ODP tools for downhole measurements (1993)
· 12, Handbook for shipboard paleontologists (1989)
· 15, Chemical methods for interstitial water analysis aboard JOIDES Resolution (1991)
· 18, Handbook for shipboard paleomagnetists (1993)
This information and a variety of other information is available through the:
ODP World-Wide Web site at: http://www-odp.tamu.edu/
A-1.2 Research Protocols for PALE
The Paleoclimates of Arctic Lakes and Estuaries (PALE) Project has published an extensive set of protocols for its project. The report contains an extensive discussion of coring, sampling, analytical, and dating methods, including detailed recommendations concerning techniques. Although the discussion is focused on high-latitude lakes and estuaries, much of it is applicable to lake sediments in general.
The report is PAGES Workshop Report 94-1 and is available from the:
PAGES Core Project Office, Bärenplatz 2, CH-3011 Bern, Switzerland
Email: pages@ubeclu.unibe.ch.
A-1.3 IMAGES Science and Implementation Plan
The science and implementation plan for IMAGES (International Marine Global Change Study) contains a rationale for studying high-resolution marine records, which parallels the one in this report. The IMAGES document discusses methods related to paleoclimatic records derived from marine sediments and offers a number of recommendations, much of which are pertinent to studies of lakes sediments.
The report is PAGES Workshop Report 94-3 and is available from the:
PAGES Core Project Office, Bärenplatz 2, CH-3011 Bern, Switzerland
Email: pages@ubeclu.unibe.ch.
A-1.4 LRC Core Lab Facility Handbook
This unpublished report discusses the research program, facilities, and methods in use at the Core Laboratory of the Limnological Research Center (LRC) at the Univers-ity of Minnesota. It is a useful guide to an integrated approach by one laboratory to paleoenvironmental reconstructions derived from lake sediments.
The report is available on the World-Wide Web at:
http://www.geo.umn.edu/orgs/lrc/lrc.html,
or from the Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota, 310 Pillsbury Dr. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0219, USA
A-1.5 Ocean and Land Sample Repository at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory maintains one of the premier core archives in the world. The Lamont Ocean and Land Sample Repository is seeking to expand its role for non-marine cores. An unpublished document describing the facilities at the Repository and the procedures used for core logging, description, sampling, and archiving is available from:
Rusty Lotti Bond, Curator
Deep-Sea Sample Repository
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Palisades, NY 10964 USA
Email: curator@lamont.ldeo.columbia.edu
A-1.6 PAGES Workshop Report: Global Paleoenvironmental Data
This report, the result of an effort initiated by PAGES but coordinated with all of the Core Projects of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program, especially the Data and Information Systems (DIS) Project, describes the importance, use, and benefits of paleoclimatic data, ranging from analytical and field results to data needed and generated by climatic modeling. It contains recommendations for data formats, database construction and management, and data archiving.
The World Data Center-A (WDC-A) for Paleoclimatology in Boulder, Colorado, USA, serves as the data coordination center for PAGES; information and data files can be obtained through the WDC-A World-Wide Web site at: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html.
The report is PAGES Workshop Report 95-2 and is available from the:
PAGES Core Project Office, Bärenplatz 2, CH-3011 Bern, Switzerland
Email: pages@ubeclu.unibe.ch.
A-1.7 Edited Volumes on Lake Sediments
A number of volumes on various aspects of lake sediments have been compiled over the years, and they serve as useful overviews, guides to methods, and sources of other information. They include:
Berglund, B. E., (ed.) (1986) Handbook of Holocene Palaeoecology and Palaeohydrology. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester.
Bradbury, J.P. and Dean, W.E. (eds.) (1993) Elk Lake, Minnesota: Evidence for Rapid Climate Change in the North-Central United States. Geological Society of America Special Paper 276, Boulder, CO.
Haworth, E. Y. and Lund, J. W. G. (eds.) (1984) Lake Sediments and Environmental History. Leicester University Press.
Lerman, A. (ed.) (1978) Lakes: Chemistry, Geology, Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York.
Gray, J. E. (ed.) (1988) Aspects of Freshwater Paleoecology and Biogeography. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, volume 62.
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