- Gary Wilson is the ‘2IC’ for these
- Schedule for meetings this year… mostly the 2nd Monday of the month with a few modifications:
- 19 Mar
- No meeting in April
- 14 May
- 11 June
- etc….
3. OAR Update
We have agreement from Property Services to move into the old Wickliffe Press building, and are currently waiting for them to clear the space and install some power, lights, water and internet. We have ordered three new containers – one fridge, one office, one for the Geotek – which will probably be delivered there in the next 4-6 weeks. Then there will be a staged operation to shift materials already in other refrigerated containers into those, followed by their containers. We will need a workforce for this.
The database is being constructed at present and we expect a trial version to be delivered in late March.
Data technician position – a work in progress.
4. Dave Prior is about to put in two funding applications
(i) To the Div Sci Strategic Fund and then perhaps the Australian Antarctic Division for funding to support development of a novel device to use laue refection of X-rays to determine crystal orientations of the surfaces of ice or rocks (including cores). It may also be able to do CT scans. $1-1.5M development costs.
(ii) An ice-coring system known as an Eclipse drill to the Otago Large Equipment Grant scheme. Can drill <300m dry in ice/snow and is very portable. $200k.
Contact Dave (david.prior@otago.ac.nz) if you envisage these items might be of use to you and thus you can support his applications.
5. IODP stuff
- Please do read the ANZIC Bulletins I have posted recently and will continue to post
- See associated post that I just put up about forthcoming port calls for the JR and a seismic vessel in Dunedin
6. A reminder to distribute the add about the Short Course in Scientific Drilling in Japan 18 June – 7 July. Add here
That’s all folks!
V
