Facility Support: National Lacustrine Core Repository and Initial Core Analysis Laboratory (LacCore)

这笔赠款为明尼苏达大学(LacCore)的国家湖泊岩芯储存库和初始岩心分析实验室提供了三年的持续支持。LacCore运营开放式实验室，使社区能够获得专门的野外和实验室设备以及初始岩心描述(ICD)方法的工作人员专业知识，包括非破坏性多传感器岩心测井和数字岩心摄影。LacCore还提供冷藏核心存储和归档服务。LacCore目前拥有超过6000米的湖心。约80%的核心材料是从全球范围内进行的GREAD(全球湖泊钻探)项目中回收的，其余20%的核心材料来自较小的湖泊取心项目。预计将在支助期间扩大档案。Funding提供全职核心存储库馆长和核心分析实验室经理的工资。该设施为湖泊研究社区提供服务，进行有助于我们了解大陆过去气候、生态系统和生物地球化学动力学的研究。LacCore培训本科生和研究生核心描述和分析的方法，设施工作人员参加明尼苏达州美洲原住民初中和高中环境夏令营的外联活动。

Three years of continued support of a national lacustrine core repository and initial core analysis laboratory at the University of Minnesota (LacCore) is provided by this grant. LacCore operates open laboratories to allow community access to specialized field and laboratory equipment and staff expertise for Initial Core Description (ICD) methods including non-destructive multi-sensor core logging and digital core photography. LacCore also provides refrigerated core storage and archival services. LacCore currently houses in excess of 6000 m of lake cores. Roughly 80% of core materials were recovered from GLAD (Global LAkes Drilling) projects conducted worldwide, the remaining 20% of core materials are from smaller lake coring projects. Expansion of the archive over the period of support is anticipated. Funding provides salary for a full-time core repository curator and core analysis lab manager. The facility serves the limnological research community for studies that contribute to our understanding of past climates, ecological systems, and biogeochemical dynamics on the continents. LacCore trains undergraduate and graduate students in methods of core description and analysis and facility staff participate in outreach activities to Native American middle- and high school environmental camps in Minnesota.