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品的中央储存库。本次采集包括1813个深海岩心、586个疏浚样品和763个沿海和深海抓取样品。在过去三年中，对MGSL分发给合格调查员的沉积物、岩芯和疏浚岩石样品的需求持续旺盛。关于URI样本收集的信息现在可以通过MGSL网站在线获得，并配有用于确定样本分布的互动地图。预计随着新的岩心和疏浚样品的加入，对样品的需求将继续增长。URI通过在GSO聘请三名新的教职员工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，并向MGSL提供新的海底样本。在今后三年内，拟议的活动将包括管理新的岩芯和疏浚岩石样品，进一步说明现有的样品，加强MGSL网站，向新的岩心馆长数据库提交样品信息，为新的岩芯采集进行例行记录，以及在地球样品登记系统中登记所有储存库样品的新举措

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