Curation Of National Antarctic Sediment Collections

这项提议将为佛罗里达州立大学的南极海洋地质研究设施的继续运作提供资金。 该设施是国家科学基金会南极周围洋底沉积物芯的存放处，向整个科学界提供沉积物芯，为科学家收集专门测量所需的样本提供必要的设备和知识。 这些沉积物提供了过去气候、海洋环流和冰盖历史的记录，并使用研究船部署的活塞岩心和钻井平台的旋转岩心以高昂的成本回收。 资金支持馆长，助理馆长，并从FSU学生劳动力。 这些工作人员为来访的科学家提供支助，管理用于岩心定性和取样的收藏品和设备，并维护数据库。 AMGRF收藏了来自南大洋的独特沉积物岩心，并在过去50年中发挥了这一作用。位于佛罗里达州立大学的南极海洋地质研究设施是国家科学基金会的南大洋活塞岩心和钻井岩心存放处，过去50年来一直在其现有的大楼内进行海洋地质研究，并向南极和地球科学界提供许多服务。该提案要求业务资金用于：（a）继续提供这些服务;（B）管理档案和数据库;（c）完成对AMGRF冷藏室的必要升级;（d）继续开展针对学生和公众的教育和外联方案。 AMGRF档案和管理由美国南极计划（USAP）船只收集的超过23，000米的岩心沉积物（超过7，000个岩心）。该设施还对来自国际项目（如ANDRILL）的约5，500米旋转岩心材料进行存档和管理。标准岩心处理服务包括岩心分裂、多传感器跟踪分析、岩心摄影、全岩心X射线等，岩心描述出版物（宏观和微观）和岩心取样。设施工作人员还应要求向外地项目提供策展支助服务。AMGRF的分析设备满足设施人员（用于生成详细的核心描述），参与美国南极计划（USAP）的NSF首席研究员以及美国及其他地区科学界的合格用户的研究需求。该设备为该设施的用户提供了必要的工具，以快速、客观地分析每年送到该设施的活塞芯和钻芯。 AMGRF维护一个核心和样本数据库，具有最新的地图样本搜索能力，可通过不断升级的设施网站访问。 这个可搜索的数据库包含有关该设施存储的所有岩心的基本信息，以及从1964年至今采集的样本信息。除了沉积物岩心档案外，AMGRF还保存了船舶和甲板日志档案，这是一个收集了大量的Ca。862，000张显微镜载玻片和AMGRF相关出版物的图书馆。 设施工作人员定期为学生和公众提供图尔斯和讲座。

This proposal would provide funding for continued operation of the Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility (AMGRF) at Florida State University. This facility is the NSF repository of sediment cores from the ocean floor surrounding Antarctica, and makes sediment cores available to the entire scientific community, providing the equipment and knowledge necessary for scientists to collect samples for specialized measurements. The sediments provide a record of past climate, ocean circulation, and ice sheet history, and were recovered at great cost using piston cores deployed from research vessels and rotary coring from drilling platforms. The funding supports a curator, an assistant curator, and a student work force from FSU. This staff supports visiting scientists, manages the collections and the equipment used for core characterization and sampling, and maintain data bases. The AMGRF houses a unique collection of sediment cores from the Southern Oceans and has served in this role for the past 50 years. The Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility (AMGRF) at Florida State University, the NSF repository of Southern Ocean piston- and drill-cores, has been conducting marine geological research and providing numerous services to the Antarctic and Earth Science Community in its present building for the past 50 years. This proposal requests operating funds to (a) continue provide these services, (b) manage archives and databases, (c) complete necessary upgrades of the AMGRF Cold-Room, and (d) continue our education and outreach programs for students and the general public. The AMGRF archives and curates more than 23,000 m of cored sediment (over 7,000 cores) collected by United States Antarctic Program (USAP) vessels. The Facility also archives and curates some 5,500 m of rotary-cored material from international programs such as ANDRILL. The standard core processing services include core splitting, Multi-Sensor Track analyses, core photography, whole-core x-rays, etc., core description publications (macroscopic and microscopic), and core sampling. Facility personnel also provide curatorial support services to field-based projects upon request. Analytical equipment at the AMGRF serves the research needs of Facility personnel (for the generation of detailed core descriptions), NSF Principal Investigators involved with the United States Antarctic Program (USAP), and qualified users from the scientific community in the U.S. and beyond. This equipment provides users of the Facility with the necessary tools to rapidly and objectively analyze the piston cores and drill cores sent to the Facility each year. The AMGRF maintains a core and sample database with the latest map-sample search capabilities that can be accessed through the continuously upgraded Facility website. This searchable database contains basic information about all the cores stored at the facility, as well as information on samples taken from 1964 to the present. In addition to the sediment core archives the AMGRF also keeps archives of ship and deck-logs, a collection of ca. 862,000 microscope slides, and a library of AMGRF related publications. Facility personnel routinely provide tours and lectures for students and the general public.