Seafloor Samples Laboratory

根据该合同，专业研究员将负责伍兹霍尔海洋研究所海底样品实验室的工作。 如果继续提供资金，该储存库将能够跟上对与广泛收集有关的材料和数据不断扩大的需求，从而能够开始、继续或通过使用以前获得的海洋地质样本来加强各种全球研究方案。在最近的资助期内，该储存库与来自全球8个国家40多所大学和研究机构的调查人员分享了18，000多个样本。此外，储存库还增加了284个新的岩心，202个新的疏浚样本和58个新的样本位置，来自17个阿尔文潜水。 该资料库将支持和更新一个基于地图的搜索网站www.whoi.edu/corelab/explore，该网站包括数以千计的PDF格式的岩心和疏浚描述，可供立即下载或在线浏览，这使得通过这一“开放渠道”即时广泛访问我们丰富的信息成为可能。该储存库还提供关于取样作业的技术咨询以及一套现代化和维护良好的定制设备，用于收集所有类型的海底样本。每年，该实验室将通过其在姆克林实验室的设施领导许多教育和技术小组，以描述样品采集过程中的程序，并展示和描述构成收集的许多类型的海底材料。 凭借该奖项，该实验室将继续维持所有样本存档和采集支持活动。

Under this award the PIs will be responsible for the duration of the Woods HoleOceanographic Institution Sea Floor Samples laboratory. With continued funding the repository will be able to keep pace with the expanding demands for material and data related to their extensive collection, enabling a wide array of global research programs to begin, continue or be enhanced by the use of previously acquired marine geological samples. In the most recent grant period, the repository shared more than 18,000 samples with investigators from more than forty universities and research institutions located in eight nations around the world. In addition the repository had added 284 new cores, 202 new dredge samples and 58 new sample locations from seventeen Alvin dives. The repository will support and update a map-based search site www.whoi.edu/corelab/explore that includes thousands of core and dredge descriptions in PDF format that are available for immediate downloading or online browsing which makes possible instantaneous broad access to our wealth of information via this 'open channel' of communication. The repository also provides access to technical advice on sampling operations and a suite of modern and well-maintained, custom-built equipment for the gathering of sea floor samples of all types. Annually, the lab will lead numerous educational and technical groups through its facilities at the Mclean laboratory to describe the procedures in the sample acquisition process and display and describe the many types of sea floor materials that make up the collection. With the award the lab will continue to sustain all of the sample archiving and acquisition support activities.