Dr. Beverly Saylor
Dr. Beverly Saylor, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geological Science, uses the greenhouse laboratory for core storage and analysis. Dr. Saylor was storing sediment cores from the deepest parts of the central and eastern basins of Lake Erie in the greenhouse cold room at the farm. These cores were collected by piston coring from the Canadian Coast Guard Research Vessel Limnos. The longest core is approximately 16 meters and extends back in time to more than 6,000 years B.C. There are also short benthos cores that provide high-resolution records of the last 100 years. Dr. Saylor and her students worked on these cores and investigated the evolution of Lake Erie since the retreat of the glaciers 12,000 years ago. They studied the sedimentology and geochemistry of the cores.