The corelab in Mondsee, in a building usually used for fish research by the Austrian Institute for Fishery in Scharfling (many thanks again, Ali!). The lake is just in three minutes walking distance. In the center a 6 m long table for cutting, description, preparation, and subsampling of the cores. The photo-lab is at the left hand, behind the black plastic sacs, used to reduce parasite light for better spectroscopy.
Core cutting tool
Sedimentologist, preparing mentally his core description
Radiocarbon specialist, picking out those fagus leaves which turned out to have been transported down-core
5mm-halfcore-slices for the ostracodologists being cut and stored in Petri-dishes (... no, the samples, not the o..ogists)
'Lichtscheues Gesindel': the photo- and spectro guy, being treated with his own weapons.