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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.

Friday, 1 September 2023

Summer 2023 in the lab

 Some highlights from the lab this summer. We had a crew of three high school interns: Vincent, Maya, and Sam. Vincent was exploring ice sliding on different rock types. Maya used active acoustics to characterize two ice interfaces at different normal stress. Sam used bench top test of carbon mineralization while looking at the effect of stress and pH. They were a great crew!


During this summer we also had a visitor from New Zealand, Lucy, who brought with her some samples from Dave Prior's lab. Lucy was here to learn about attenuation and Hatsuki's new apparatus. We decided to hold a mini-workshop about Q and invited folks from nearby U.Penn.
I can't remember why it was that Travis brought his dewar, but I realized that between his, Lucy's and ours (which Kris was loading up and getting ready to take to the UK), we had an outright gaggle of dewars.