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

该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。目前收集的样品包括1 813个深海岩心、586个疏浚样品和763个沿海和深海抓斗样品。在过去三年中，对从MGSL分发给合格调查人员的沉积物岩心和疏浚岩石样品的需求持续强劲。关于URI样品采集的信息现在可以通过MGSL网站在线获得，该网站带有用于确定样品分布的交互式地图。随着新岩芯和疏浚样品的加入，预计样品请求需求将继续增长。URI已经通过在GSO雇用三名新的教员来证明其对该设施的机构承诺，他们都有积极的研究计划，这些计划将利用现有的海底样本，并为MGSL提供新的海底样本。在未来三年内，拟议的活动将包括管理新的岩心和挖掘岩石样本，进一步描述现有样本，增强MGSL网站，向NGDC岩心管理员数据库提交样本信息，对新岩心采集进行例行记录，以及在地球样本登记系统中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