FW: ICP-7 Workshop - Volunteers requested

[Katherine HARLE]

For more information contact Frank Rack
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From: Frank Rack [mailto:frack at brook.edu] 
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 1:20 AM
To: Paleoclimate List
Subject: ICP-7 Workshop - Volunteers requested



Dear All Paleoceanographers, 


This message is to announce a workshop to be held at the 7th International
Conference on Paleoceanography in Sapporo, Japan on Sunday, September 16,
2001, entitled: "Advances in Coring, Drilling, and Non-Invasive Measurement
Technologies for Paleoceanographic Investigations: A Community Discussion on
the State of the Art". The workshop will be sponsored by JAMSTEC/OD21 and
supported by JOI/ODP and IMAGES. 


Dr. Frank Rack will be the convenor of this workshop. 


The ICP VII Home Page is located at URL: www.iijnet.or.jp/JTB-CS/icp7 

Co-Conveneors: Hisatake Okada, Itaru Koizumi and Tadamichi Oba 


Volunteers are needed to talk about how researchers are applying any of the
individual techniques or combinations of techniques listed below. These case
studies could also lead into discussions of the issues regarding the
development of proxies, instrument calibration, standards, databases, etc. 


There is no fee for the workshop and all attendees to the ICP-7 are welcome.



Unfortunately, no travel funds are available to support attendance at this
workshop. 


Please contact Dr. Frank Rack (Email: frack at brook.edu; Phone: 202-232-3900,
ext. 216; Fax: 202-462-8754) if you are interested in presenting a 15-minute
talk on a topic of interest to this workshop, in leading a discussion on one
or more of the issues regarding non-invasive measurements, or would like to
attend this workshop. 


Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who may be interested in
these issues. 


I apologize for the lateness of this information, but hope that there is
enough interest in the topics to be covered that we will be able to have a
good number of participants. I would appreciate hearing from any interested
participants. 


Best regards, 


Frank 



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Workshop attendees would be asked to contribute their experience and written
comments to address a number of proposed topics and issues presented in the
workshop agenda below. 


Title of the Workshop: "Advances in Coring, Drilling, and Non-Invasive
Measurement Technologies for Paleoceanographic Investigations: A Community
Discussion on the State of the Art". 


This workshop will solicit community response to the issues raised in the
(1998) IMAGES NTSI standing committee report (available on-line at URL:
www.joi-odp.org/T3_report/T3_report.html, and Chapter 20
"Non-InvasiveSediment Monitoring Methods: Current and Future Tools for
High-Resolution Climate Studies" by Ortiz, J. and Rack, F., in 

"Reconstructing Ocean History: A Window into the Future", (1999) Abrantes,
F. and Mix, A. (Ed.) Plenum Publishers (NY). 


Draft Workshop Agenda: 


Sunday, September 16, 2001 10:00-15:00 


10:00-10:30 - Frank Rack - Non-invasive data collection methods in
paleoceanography: An overview 


10:30-11:00 - TBD - Coring methods and core quality (examples from ODP,
IMAGES, other coring platforms). 


11:00-13:00 - Case Studies of Non-invasive methods currently in use, and
under development: 


NOTE: Volunteers are needed to talk about how researchers are applying any
of the individual techniques or combinations of techniques listed below.
These case studies could also lead into discussions of the issues regarding
the development of proxies, instrument calibration, standards, databases,
etc. 


Please contact Dr. Frank Rack (frack at brook.edu) if you are interested in
presenting a 15-minute talk on one or more of these topics, or in leading a
discussion on one or more of these issues. 


(1) Reflectance spectroscopy (Minolta, SCAT, GEOSCAN, others) measurements
of sediment cores 

(2) U-channel magnetometer and rock magnetic properties (MS, ARM, SIRM, IRM,
etc) of sediment cores 

(3) Geoacoustic measurements (density, velocity) of sediment cores 

(4) XRF-scanning of sediment cores 

(5) Resistivity measurements of sediment cores 

(6) Digital Imaging of sediment cores 

(7) Volumetric Imaging techniques for studying sediment cores 

(8) Infrared Thermal Imaging of sediment cores 


13:00-14:30 - Discussion of Issues: 


How can non-invasive measurements be used to develop sedimentologic and
paleoceanographic proxies? 

What kinds of proxies have been developed to date? How effective are they? 

What more can be done? 


What has been the experience of researchers in using multi-sensor core
loggers and other systems? At sea? In the lab? 


How have researchers handled calibration issues? What are the pitfalls? What
are the lessons learned? 


How are these data being used? Qualitatively? Quantitatively? 


Have there been any attempts at intercalibration between labs or programs?
Is there any interest in doing this? 


14:30-15:00 - Summary Recommenendations and Conclusions 


15:00-17:00 - Presentation by JAMSTEC on the present status of IODP and
riser-drilling techniques. 


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Frank R. Rack, Ph.D. 

Assistant Director. Ocean Drilling Programs 

Assistant Director, U.S. Science Support Program 

Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc. 

1755 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Suite 700 

Washington, D.C. 20036 

United States of America 


Tel: (202) 232-3900, ext. 216 

FAX: (202) 462-8754 


email: frack at brook.edu 

JOI website: http://www.joi-odp.org 

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