Hi all. A reminder about Friday’s meeting (10am, Staff Club) to discuss Otago Core Analysis and Handling facilities:
Two topics to cover – facilities requirements and database requirements. Your input at this meeting will define what we end up with for the next few years so its very important you think about your requirements in advance.
Facilities
We’ll outline our preliminary thoughts on how to assemble the facility but we can’t finalise that until we know the scope of what folks want to use it for, so we’ll be seeking the following information from you at the meeting:
1. What are the future requirements for core storage? How much material, how much work to be done on it? Core diameter? Lengths?
2. Do you have any transitional facility requirements?
3. What facilities are required to work on core? What types of measurements do you want to make? How much space, how often and how much time will you need to make the measurements?
4. What services would you require in the containers? Power (phase?), light, heat, stable temperature?
5. How portable do you need these facilities to be? Where will we deploy them?
At this stage we have 3 refrigerated containers available for core storage though some work is required to add shelving and these are already partly full. Indicative costs for fitted out containers are:
Lab Container = $25k (air conditioned, stable temp, power, lighting, benches, shelves, internal door)
Core storage container = $20k (refridgerated, shelving, lighting, internal door
Working container = $15k (power, lighting, internal door – no furniture)
Current budget for containers = $70k
Database
DIS_Requirements_Catalogue_UOtago_2017_05_30 is an excel sheet requesting what types of information you want to see included in a sample database. Please look at this before the meeting and think about your requirements.
The plan is to set up a sample database similar to the ICDP-derived Drilling Information System (DIS) used on DFDP. If you would like a demonstration of the DFDP-DIS, please set aside some time on Friday afternoon from 2-4pm.
Thanks
Virginia, Gary and Bob
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Dr. Virginia Toy
Department of Geology, University of Otago
Ph: +64 21 127 1012
