Seafloor Samples Laboratory

伍兹霍尔海洋研究所海底样品实验室为国际海洋科学家提供始终如一的高质量设施和服务。每年收集的资料为各种项目提供基本框架，范围从气候历史到与板块构造研究有关的岩石学。在新材料稳步进入馆藏的同时，继续保持立即获得充分记录、描述和数字化的岩心。在最近的赠款期间，麦克莱恩实验室向世界各地的科学家分发了近2.6万份样本，而且样本分发数量多年来一直在继续攀升。统计数据表明，以前获取的海底样本对海洋学界正在进行的研究具有持续的价值。此外，该实验室还提供关于采样作业的技术咨询，以及一套现代的、维护良好的定制设备，用于收集所有类型的海底样品。该实验室管理实地采购方案中使用的工具的准备工作，主要是在联索政治处的船只上，并可以修改这一仪器库存，以便从科学船队中的几乎每一艘船进行部署。这项提议要求继续提供资金，以便WHOI能够跟上与其广泛收集相关的材料和数据的不断增长的需求，从而允许一系列广泛的全球研究计划开始、继续或通过使用以前获得的海洋地质样本得到加强。更广泛的影响世界卫生组织核心储存库为海洋地质和地球物理界以及国际科学家提供有价值的服务。它支持和更新一个基于地图的搜索网站www.hori.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‘开放渠道’通信对我们广泛的数据库进行即时广泛访问成为可能。该资料库还支持研究生、本科生和K-12学生通过课程和定期向公众开放参观该设施。

Intellectual Merit The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Floor Samples laboratory provides consistent and quality facilities and services to an international audience of marine scientists. The collection annually provides the basic framework for a diversity of projects ranging from climate history to petrology related to plate tectonic studies. Immediate access to fully documented, described and digitized cores is sustained while new material is steadily entered into the collection. In the most recent grant period, the McLean laboratory distributed almost 26,000 samples to scientists around the world, and the sample distribution numbers have continued to climb over the years. Statistics demonstrate the continuing value that previously acquired sea floor samples represents to ongoing research in the oceanographic community. In addition, the laboratory provides access to technological 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. The lab manages the preparation of tools employed in field acquisition programs, principally on UNOLS ships, and can modify this inventory of instruments for deployment from nearly every vessel in the scientific fleet. This proposal requests a continuation of funding so that WHOI can keep pace with the expanding demands for material and data related to its extensive collection, allowing a wide array of global research programs to begin, continue or be enhanced by the use of previously acquired marine geological samples. Broader Impact The WHOI core repository provides a valuable service to the Marine Geology & Geophysics community as well as international scientists. It supports and updates 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 extensive database via 'open channel' communication. The repository also supports graduate, undergraduate and K-12 learning through classes and periodic open house tours of the facility for the public.