Over the weekend Reb Daly and Shikha Sharma (WVU) were in Morgantown to oversee the collection of Marcellus shale sidewall cores from the MSEEL site. The whole operation was a success, and the cores are now back at OSU being processed – imaged, washed, and ground-up for DNA & PLFA extractions, culturing, noble gas analyses, and mineralogic characterization. Some pics below….