Lamont-Doherty Core Repository: Curation, Service, Professional Development, Outreach

该项目将支持Lamont-Doherty核心储存库（LDCR）的持续运作。LDCR包含来自世界各大海洋的大量深海岩心。该系列还包括海底疏浚样本、珊瑚样本以及湿地和河流核心。来自地球科学界的科学家使用LDCR收集来研究广泛的主题。例子包括过去的气候变化，极地冰盖的历史和最近的海洋缺氧的研究。该项目将支持样品收集的管理，并向地球科学界提供样品。它还将支持改进在线搜索的数字界面。该项目的更广泛影响将包括为研究生和本科生提供专业发展机会。其他更广泛的影响活动包括针对K-12学生和公众的教育和外联工作，该提案寻求支持：a）为地球科学界收集的样本和岩心提供长期管理和存档，以确保其保存和对当代和后代地球科学家有用; B）满足国家地球科学界的需要，满足样品要求，并提供样品说明、岩心测井测量以及对感兴趣的材料进行基本的沉积学、地球化学和地球物理分析; d）为学生和早期职业科学家创造专业发展机会，包括暑期实习和使用最先进仪器的机会; e）继续开发推广和教育材料，继续教育教师、学生和公众了解核心知识库在更好地理解气候变化等地球过程方面的重要作用，海洋酸化、演化和地质构造。知识库的智力价值源于利用其人员和资源在当代各种研究课题上取得科学进步。 这些主题包括深海勘探、地质灾害、海洋地质学、构造学、沉积学、湖泊和湿地研究、极地研究、地球化学、进化、环境污染和古气候学。 最不发达国家权利委员会影响更广的活动包括各级的教育活动、积极的在线存在以及每年接待数百名访问者（如果把一年一度的拉蒙开放日计算在内，所有人都了解LDCR和NSF的科学和教育资源-该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The project will support the ongoing operation of the Lamont-Doherty Core Repository (LDCR). The LDCR contains a large collection of deep-sea cores from every major world ocean and sea. The collection also contains seafloor dredge samples, coral samples, and wetland and river cores. Scientists from throughout the earth science community use the LDCR collection to study a wide range of topics. Examples include studies of past climate variability, polar ice sheet history, and recent ocean hypoxia. The project would support curation of the sample collections and providing samples to the geoscience community. It would also support improving the digital interface for online searches. The Broader Impacts of the project would include professional development opportunities for graduate students and undergraduates. Additional broader impacts activities include education and outreach efforts aimed at K-12 students and the general public.This proposal seeks support: a) to provide for the long-term curation and archiving of samples and cores collected by the geoscience community in order to ensure their preservation and usefulness to current and future generations of Earth scientists; b) to serve the needs of the national geoscience community by fulfilling sample requests as well as providing sample descriptions, core log measurements, and basic sedimentological, geochemical, and geophysical analyses on materials of interest; c) to pursue new initiatives designed to enhance the utility of the archived collections; d) to create professional development opportunities for students and early career scientists, including summer internships and opportunities to use state of the art instruments; e) to continue development of outreach and educational materials and continue educating teachers, students, and the general public about the important role the Core Repository plays in building a better understanding of Earth processes such as climate change, ocean acidification, evolution, and tectonics. The intellectual merit of the Repository stems from the use of its personnel and resources to accomplish scientific advances across a diverse array of contemporary research topics. These topics include deep-sea exploration, geological hazards, marine geology, tectonics, sedimentology, lake and wetlands studies, polar region studies, geochemistry, evolution, environmental pollution, and paleoclimatology. The Broader impact activities of the LDCR include educational activities at all levels, an active on-line presence, and hosting hundreds of visitors a year (thousands when the annual Lamont Open House is counted), all of whom leave with an understanding of the scientific and educational resources available at the LDCR as well as the NSF-supported service role we play in the scientific community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.