Renewal of Curation of ODP Legs 150X and 174AX cores: The Rutgers Core Repository

项目简介：项目负责人要求继续部分支持罗格斯岩心储存库的管理、拓展和数据管理活动，该储存库将海洋钻探计划（ODP） 150X和174AX以及远征队303/306现场调查岩心进行存档。陆上分支从新泽西州（NJ）和特拉华州沿海平原的14个陆上钻井地点获得了4.2公里的岩心，这是与分支150 （NJ斜坡），174A （NJ斜坡和外大陆架）以及综合海洋钻探计划（IODP）远征313在NJ大陆架上钻探的协调努力。在与NSF、ODP、ICDP（国际大陆钻探计划）、USGS、DOSECC（地球钻探、观测和取样）合作的情况下，由腿150X和腿174AX钻探提供了一系列记录良好的沿海平原连续岩心。（美国大陆地壳），以及新泽西州和特拉华州的州地质调查。这些岩心继续为全球海平面变化、层序地层学、盆地构造和沉积、气候变化以及地球历史上的重大事件（如始新世-渐新世过渡（EOT）、古新世/始新世热最大值（PETM）、白垩纪/古近纪（K/Pg）和Cenomanian/Turonian （C/T）边界）提供见解。罗格斯大学提供长期存储空间材料支持，将这些核心存储在新装修的14,000平方英尺的罗格斯核心存储库中。NSF资助了该库5年（2006-2011），在此期间，他们：1)被指定为官方IODP库；2)获得了5000平方英尺的额外空间，从罗格斯大学（Rutgers）获得了120万美元的翻新资金，用于翻新1.4万平方英尺的存储空间，购买了一辆新的冷冻堆芯存储货车，并建造了气候控制的专用堆芯拆分和描述实验室；3)开发了一个网站，其中包含ODP Leg 150X和174AX的元数据、数据集和其他存储库的链接，以及在切萨皮克湾冲击构造、大西洋和墨西哥湾沿岸平原钻探的其他陆上岩心；4)为新的康涅狄格科学中心和罗格斯地质博物馆策划展览；5)分发150X和174AX（2006-2011年）4000多份样本，以及收集303/306考察现场调查岩芯的KN166-14号邮轮20000多份样本；6)在30多所大学，超过15个公共论坛和众多国际会议上进行150X/174AX核心的外联演讲；7)在GSA和AGU年会上，作为DOSECC展台的一部分提供核心展品；8) 2011年钻探了Wilson Lake Hole B岩心孔，作为Leg 174AX的一部分，该岩心孔将为PETM和K/Pg段提供国际通道。项目计划要求提供三年的资金，部分支助一名馆长，部分资金继续和加强这些活动。该提案将允许pi向国内和国际科学界发布有关这些核心的信息，并鼓励继续将这些核心用于尖端科学研究。更广泛的影响：罗格斯核心知识库非常成功地通过罗格斯地质博物馆和康涅狄格科学中心向K-12学校和公众提供了外展服务，并自2006年以来就海平面变化和K/Pg边界进行了18多次公众/政府演讲。核心在罗格斯大学的课程中占有突出地位，在许多本科和研究生课程中都有使用。我们让研究生和本科生参与岩心的钻井和存档工作，并于2011年在威尔逊湖钻井，让学生负责钻井的各个方面（包括钻井助理）、描述和存档工作。我们作为IODP资源库为国际科学界服务。

BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION:The PIs request continued partial support for the curation, outreach, and data management activities of the Rutgers Core Repository, which archives cores obtained by Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Legs 150X and 174AX and Expeditions 303/306 site survey cores. The onshore legs obtained 4.2 km of core from 14 sites drilled onshore in the New Jersey (NJ) and Delaware coastal plains as a coordinated effort with Legs 150 (NJ slope), 174A (NJ slope and outer shelf), and the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 313 drilling on the NJ shelf. Drilling by Legs 150X and 174AX has provided an exceptionally well-documented series of continuous cores from the coastal plain drilled in collaboration with the NSF, ODP, ICDP (International Continental Drilling Program), USGS, DOSECC (Drilling, Observation, and Sampling of the Earth?s Continental Crust), and the state geological surveys of New Jersey and Delaware. These cores continue to provide insights into global sea-level change, sequence stratigraphy, basin tectonics and sedimentation, climate change, and major events in Earth History (e.g., Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT), Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg), and Cenomanian/Turonian (C/T) boundaries). Rutgers University is providing long-term storage space materials support for archiving these cores in the newly renovated,14,000 sq ft Rutgers Core Repository. NSF funded the repository for a five year period (2006-2011) during which they: 1) were designated an official IODP repository; 2) acquired 5,000 sq ft in additional space, obtained $1.2M in renovation funds from Rutgers to renovate 14,000 sq ft of Repository space, bought a new refrigerated core storage van, and built climate-controlled dedicated core splitting and description laboratories; 3) developed a website that includes links to metadata, datasets, and other repositories for ODP Leg 150X and 174AX plus other onshore cores drilled in the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure, and the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains; 4) developed exhibits for the new Connecticut Science Center and the Rutgers Geology Museum; 5) distributed over 4,000 samples from Legs 150X and Leg 174AX (2006-2011), and over 20,000 samples from KN166-14 cruise that collected Expedition 303/306 site survey cores; 6) gave outreach talks on Leg 150X/174AX cores at over 30 universities, over 15 public forums, and numerous international meetings; 7) provided a core exhibit as part of the DOSECC booth at GSA and AGU annual meetings; and 8) drilled the Wilson Lake Hole B corehole in 2011 that will provide international access to PETM and K/Pg sections as part of Leg 174AX. The PIs request three years of funding for partial support of a Curator and partial funds to continue and enhance these activities. The proposal will allow the PIs to promulgate information on these cores to the national and international scientific communities and to encourage the continued use of these cores for cutting-edge scientific research.Broader Impact: The Rutgers Core Repository has been very successful in providing outreach to K-12 schools and the public through the Rutgers Geology Museum and the Connecticut Science Center and over 18 public/governmental presentations since 2006 on sea-level change and the K/Pg boundary. The cores figure prominently in the Rutgers University curriculum where there are used in numerous undergraduate and graduate courses. We engage graduate and undergraduate students in drilling and archiving the cores and drilled Wilson Lake in 2011 using students to staff all aspects of drilling (including drillers assistants), description, and archiving. We serve the international scientific community as an IODP repository.