shares founded 1994 headquarters daventry uk products core logging equipment slogan sensors systems and surveys website http www.geotek.co.uk geotek is a uk company that designs and manufactures specialised geological and oceanographic equipment . contents 1 company history 2 products 3 awards 4 references 5 external links company history edit founded by peter schultheiss in 1989 geotek was incorporated in 1994 when quentin huggett joined as a company director and the business moved from haslemere surrey to its current location in daventry northamptonshire where john roberts joined as technical director . the company supplies of equipment for the automated analysis of sediment and rock cores . the multi sensor core logger has been sold and contracted to universities institutions and survey companies which who use the instrument for applications including studies of climate change 1 2 3 offshore site investigation and oil gas and minerals exploration . the company also specifies and manages marine environmental surveys of the seafloor and managed the strategic environmental assessment for oil and gas and renewable energy for the department of trade and industry . this was the uk s first fully online government consultation process . 4 in recent years geotek developed pressure core analysis 5 particularly for the study of gas hydrates 6 and has worked in a number of gas hydrate investigations funded by national governments . 7 8 products edit the geotek multi sensor core logger mscl is non destructive core logging equipment 9 that can work with both whole round and split cores of both hard rocks and soft sediments . the mscl systems enable a number of geophysical measurements to be obtained automatically on sediment or rock cores under a variety of conditions . 10 awards edit queen s award for export in 2000 citation needed references edit wunsch c. ; d. e. gunn 2003 . a densely sampled core and climate variable aliasing . geo marine letters . 23 1 64 71 . bibcode 2003gml ... 23 ... 64w . doi 10.1007 s00367 003 0125 2 . bloemendal j. ; x. m. liu ; t. c. rolph 1995 . correlation of the magnetic susceptibility stratigraphy of chinese loess and the marine oxygen isotope record chronological and palaeoclimatic implications . earth and planetary science letters . 131 3 4 371 380 . bibcode 1995e & psl .131 . .371 b. doi 10.1016 0012 821x 95 00016 6 . robinson simon g. ; mark a. maslin ; i. nicholas mccave 1995 . magnetic susceptibility variations in upper pleistocene deep sea sediments of the ne atlantic implications for ice rafting and paleocirculation at the last glacial maximum . paleoceanography . 10 2 221 250 . bibcode 1995paloc . .10 . .221 r. doi 10.1029 94pa02683 . offshore sea schultheiss peter j. ; timothy j. g. francis melanie holland john a. roberts h. amann thjunjoto r. john parkes derek martin martin rothfuss floris tyunder peter d. jackson 2006 . pressure coring logging and subsampling with the hyacinth system . new techniques in sediment core analysis . special publication . 267 . london geological society . pp. 151 163 . cite uses deprecated parameter coauthors help holland melanie ; peter j. schultheiss ; john a. roberts ; matthew j. druce 2008 . observed gas hydrate morphologies in marine sediments . proceedings of the 6th international conference on gas hydrates . 6th international conference on gas hydrates . vancouver british columbia . hdl 2429 1201 . schultheiss peter j. ; melanie e. holland ; gary d. humphrey 2008 . borehole pressure coring and laboratory pressure core analysis for gas hydrate investigations . offshore technology conference . houston . schultheiss peter j. ; melanie holland ; john a. roberts ; gary d. humphrey 2008 . pressure core analysis the keystone of a gas hydrate investigation . proceedings of the 6th international conference on gas hydrates . 6th international conference on gas hydrates . vancouver british columbia . hdl 2429 1200 . http www.sams.ac.uk analytical capabilities weaver p. p. e. ; peter j. schultheiss 1990 . current methods for obtaining logging and splitting marine sediment cores . in ernest a. hailwood robert b. kidd eds . . marine geological surveying and sampling . dordrecht kluwer . pp. 85 101 . isbn 978 0 7923 0788 4 . cs1 maint uses editors parameter link external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title geotek & oldid 740155553 categories scientific equipmentmanufacturing companies of the united kingdomcompanies based in northamptonshirebritish companies established in 1994hidden categories pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameterscs1 maint uses editors parameterall articles with specifically marked weasel worded phrasesarticles with specifically marked weasel worded phrases from april 2013all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 19 september 2016 at 11 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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