Marine Geological Samples Laboratory: Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island

本提案要求为海洋学研究生院海洋地质样品实验室（MGSL）的策展活动提供资金。该设施是研究生院教职员工和学生收集的海洋地质样本的中央储存库。目前的收集包括1813个深海岩心，586个疏浚样本和763个沿海和深海抓取样本。在过去三年中，对从地质调查局分发给合格调查人员的沉积物岩心和疏浚岩石样本的需求持续强劲。有关在URI收集样本的资料，现可透过MGSL网站在网上查阅，并附有互动地图，以确定样本的分布情况。随着新的岩心和挖泥样品的增加，预计样品需求将继续增长。URI通过在GSO雇用三名新教师来展示其对该设施的机构承诺，他们都有积极的研究计划，将利用现有的海底样本，并为MGSL提供新的海底样本。在接下来的三年里，拟议的活动将包括管理新的岩芯和疏通岩石样本，进一步描述现有样本，增强MGSL网站，向NGDC岩芯管理人员数据库提交样本信息，对新采集的岩芯进行常规记录，以及向地球样本注册系统登记所有储存库样本的新举措

This proposal requests funding for curatorial activities at the Marine Geological Samples Laboratory (MGSL) of the Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO). The facility serves as the central repository for marine geological samples collected by faculty, staff and students of the Graduate School. The present collection consists of 1813 deep sea cores, 586 dredge samples and 763 coastal and deep-sea grab samples. During the past three years there has been a continued strong demand for sediment core and dredge rock samples distributed from the MGSL to qualified investigators. Information about the sample collection at URI is now available online through the MGSL website with interactive maps for determining sample distribution. It is anticipated that sample request demand will continue to grow as new cores and dredge samples are added to the collection. URI has demonstrated its institutional commitment to the facility through the hiring of three new faculty members at the GSO who all have active research programs that will utilize existing, and provide new, seafloor samples to the MGSL. During the next three years, proposed activities will include curation of new core and dredge rock samples, further description of existing samples, enhancement of the MGSL website, submittal of sample information to the NGDC core curators' database, routine logging for new core acquisitions, and a new initiative to register all repository samples with the System for Earth Sample Registration