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The rock and ice mechanics lab at Lamont-Doherty is led by PIs Christine McCarthy and Ben Holtzman. Now, more than ever, we are in the process of growing our lab and building our experimental program. Along with a team of postdocs, undergrads, grads, techs, and longtime staff engineer Ted, we are rehabilitating and revamping some of the old equipment and building and buying new rigs for exciting new experiments on both rock and ice. You can follow along with our progress here.

Saturday, 5 October 2019

Open Lab week and the Es

This year during the week before Open House, an Open Lab day was scheduled, where we at Lamont could check out what our co-workers are up to. This happened to coincide with an NYC school holiday. So, my wee ("E1") and my coworker's wee ("E2") were in for a treat.
They saw how the tree ring folks take little non-destructive cores of trees. I was told all about the significance of tree rings that night over dinner.
 And Nick showed them the IcePod and how it connects to an airplane to take radar measurements of Greenland and Antarctica.
E1 was pretty amused with the teeny tiny orange Ice Pod. 
Now as for Open House itself, I was too busy manning the slider block table to take any pictures, but there is a great highlight page here.


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