John Schutt, David Reyes (taking picture), Aaron Zent and Bruno set up drilling equipment while the rest of the team hunts for fossilized wood and other plant fragments in the lake sediments. The drilling equipment used may be considered a prototype for martian drilling. Constraints placed on the drilling equipment include no use of liquid lubricants, avoiding contamination and heating of the returned samples, and yet having a technique which will allow drilling into ground ice. The plant fragments collected will be analyzed with the help of Dr. Leo Hickey at Yale University. The plant fragments are approx. 23 million years old (Miocene), when the area was more like the Toronto area having coniferous forests in a continental climate.