Progress continues on all fronts with many small planning meetings and arrival of numerous shipments of goods. The data management team has made good progress in the last few days. The photo of the day shows Ralf Loewner and Richard Laframboise testing the core scanner system. As part of their data management duties Richard and Ralf will assure that all data collected during the project is properly archived in the GSC project data base the ICDP, Drilling Information System (DIS)., The first daily reports through ICDP have also been made available on a secure web site, using any web browser.