Lakes

•Zaca Lake, Santa Barbara County, CA

In July 2009 we cored 2 x 9m cores from the center of the lake, two littoral cores and cores from the overflow lake. Exciting work underway in Feakins and Kirby labs!

Zaca Lake 3ka paleoclimate reconstruction: Graduate student Michael Cheetham, USC

•Lake Elsinore, CA
       33º39’39, 117º21’13, 380 masl

Breaking news! Matt Kirby with the generous time and expertise of Gregg Drilling and Analytical, Inc. drilled Lake Elsinore to 30 meters below the sediment-water interface (Figure 1). Based on Holocene sedimentation rates, this new core will include the early Holocene to late glacial transition, the Last Glacial Maximum, and parts of MIS 3. Lake Elsinore’s location adjacent to the Santa Barbara Basin marine record will provide an opportunity to examine the relationship between marine climate and terrestrial climate in Southern California across some of the most dynamic and variable climate intervals in the past 35,000 or more years. Initial core description and sediment properties indicate already that this new core preserves a fantastic new climate record (Figure 2). If you are looking for an exciting MSc project, contact Matthew Kirby at mkirby@fullerton.edu or 657 278 2158.

Figure 1: Drilling Lake Elsinore, summer 2010

Figure 2: Lake Elsinore Core, collected summer 2010

•Baldwin Lake, CA
       34º16’25, 116º48’32, 2040 masl

•Clear Lake, CA
       

•Crystal Lake, CA
       34º19’06, 117º50’48, 1657 masl

•Dry Lake, CA
       34º07’14, 116º49’41, 2763 masl

•Big Bear Lake, CA
       34º15’17, 116º56’09, 2057 masl

•Mono Lake,CA
     

•Pyramid Lake, NV
     

•Walker Lake, NV