Seafloor Samples Laboratory

海底样品实验室

• 批准号: 0723307
• 负责人: William Curry
• 金额: $ 61.14万
• 依托单位: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0723307&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Seafloor; Samples; Laboratory

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.

伍兹霍尔海洋学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优质设施和服务。 该系列每年为从气候史到与板块构造研究有关的岩石学等各种项目提供基本框架。 在不断向收藏品中输入新材料的同时，继续提供有充分记录、说明和数字化的核心材料。在最近的资助期内，姆克林实验室向世界各地的科学家分发了近26，000份样本，多年来样本分发数量持续攀升。统计数字表明，以前采集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取样作业的技术咨询，并提供一套现代化和维护良好的定制设备，用于收集所有类型的海底样品。 该实验室负责管理现场采集计划中使用的工具的准备工作，主要是在联合国海洋和大气层办事处的船上，并可以修改这一仪器清单，以便从科学船队中的几乎每一艘船上部署。该提案要求继续提供资金，以便世界卫生组织能够跟上对其广泛收集的材料和数据不断扩大的需求，从而能够开始、继续或通过使用以前获得的海洋地质样本来加强各种全球研究方案。WHOI核心知识库为海洋地质地球物理学界以及国际科学家提供了宝贵的服务。它支持和更新一个基于地图的搜索网站，www.whoi.edu/corelab/explore，其中包括数以千计的PDF格式的核心和疏浚描述，可供立即下载或在线浏览，这使得通过“开放渠道”通信即时广泛访问我们的广泛数据库成为可能。该存储库还支持研究生，本科生和K-12学习，通过课程和定期开放的房子图尔斯参观的设施，为公众。