We spent the day setting up the research lab and ran into a pretty big snag. We have a machine (a Geotek MSCL) for measuring the physical properties of the cores, including their magnetic properties, which is very important for our research. Something must have gotten jostled during shipping, as the magnetic sensor is not working. As you can see, Ryan is horrified. I think (hope?) we'll get it working, but it's going to be days spent chasing down electronics problems on a complicated system. (TDP on facebook)