Continued Operation of the OSU/CEOAS Marine and Geology Repository

俄勒冈州立大学的地球、海洋和大气科学学院将OSU/CEOAS海洋和地质储存库（OSU- mgr）作为nsf赞助的社区设施进行维护。任务是存档和分发地质样本，主要是沉积物岩心，岩石，结核和沉积物陷阱样本，用于科学研究和教育。储存库成立于1971年，从那时起，OSU-MGR已经发展到管理四个主要收藏。(1)美国国家科学基金会海洋地质收集：包括来自6603个岩心的15196 m海洋沉积物，来自529艘挖泥船的14674个岩石样本，来自61次潜水（Alvin， ROV）的568个岩石样本，528个深海锰结核和1644个沉积物陷阱样本。(2) NSF南极岩心收集：包括来自ANDRILL， CRP， CIROS， DVDP等92个站点的7,352个岩心的16,187 m的海洋沉积物和7,993 m的钻探岩心。(3) NOAA R/V Okeanos Explorer潜水收藏：由187次潜水的365块岩石组成。(4)各种其他岩芯和岩石收集，包括567米的太平洋西北湖沉积物和8061米的陆地钻探岩芯，来自俄勒冈州各地。近50年来，这些材料一直在NSF的持续资助下被存档和描述，在过去的29年里，超过18.6万份样本分发给了美国和世界各地的科学家、教育工作者和博物馆。由于在上一个资助期间采集了27,000多个样本，对存储库样本的需求仍然很高，并且是当今科学需求的一个可预测的组成部分。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University maintains the OSU/CEOAS Marine and Geology Repository (OSU-MGR) as an NSF-sponsored community facility. The mission is to archive and distribute geological samples, predominantly sediment cores, rocks, nodules and sediment trap samples, for scientific research and education. The repository was established in 1971 and since that time OSU-MGR has grown to curate four primary collections. (1) NSF’s Marine Geology Collection: Consisting of 15,196 m of marine sediments from 6,603 cores, 14,674 rock samples from 529 dredges, 568 rock samples from 61 dives (Alvin, ROV), 528 deep-sea manganese nodules, and 1,644 sediment trap samples. (2) NSF’s Antarctic core collection: Consisting of 16,187 m of marine sediments from 7,352 cores and 7,993 m of drill core from 92 sites, including ANDRILL, CRP, CIROS, DVDP and others. (3) NOAA R/V Okeanos Explorer Dive Collection: Consisting of 365 rocks from 187 dives. And (4) various other core and rock collections, including 567 m of Pacific NW lake sediments and 8,061 m of terrestrial drill core from across Oregon. For almost 50 years these materials have been archived and described with continuous NSF funding, with more than 186,000 samples distributed over the past 29 years to scientists, educators, and museums throughout the United States and around the world. With more than 27,000 samples taken over the last grant period, the demand for repository samples remains high, and is a predictable component of today’s scientific need.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.