Seafloor Samples Laboratory

根据该合同，pi将负责伍兹霍尔海洋研究所海底样品实验室的持续时间。有了持续的资金支持，该储存库将能够跟上对其广泛收集的材料和数据不断增长的需求，使一系列广泛的全球研究项目能够开始、继续或通过使用先前获得的海洋地质样本得到加强。在最近的资助期内，该知识库与来自全球8个国家的40多所大学和研究机构的研究人员共享了18,000多个样本。此外，存储库还增加了284个新岩心，202个新疏浚样本和来自17次阿尔文潜水的58个新样本位置。该资源库将支持和更新一个基于地图的搜索网站www.whoi.edu/corelab/explore，该网站包含数千个PDF格式的核心和疏浚描述，可供立即下载或在线浏览，这使得通过这个“开放渠道”的交流可以即时广泛地访问我们丰富的信息。该储存库还提供有关采样操作的技术咨询意见，以及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本。每年，该实验室将带领许多教育和技术小组通过其在麦克莱恩实验室的设施来描述样品采集过程中的程序，并展示和描述构成收集的许多类型的海底材料。有了这份合同，实验室将继续维持所有的样品存档和获取支持活动。

Under this award the PIs will be responsible for the duration of the Woods HoleOceanographic Institution Sea Floor Samples laboratory. With continued funding the repository will be able to keep pace with the expanding demands for material and data related to their extensive collection, enabling a wide array of global research programs to begin, continue or be enhanced by the use of previously acquired marine geological samples. In the most recent grant period, the repository shared more than 18,000 samples with investigators from more than forty universities and research institutions located in eight nations around the world. In addition the repository had added 284 new cores, 202 new dredge samples and 58 new sample locations from seventeen Alvin dives. The repository will support and update 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 wealth of information via this 'open channel' of communication. The repository also provides access to technical 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. Annually, the lab will lead numerous educational and technical groups through its facilities at the Mclean laboratory to describe the procedures in the sample acquisition process and display and describe the many types of sea floor materials that make up the collection. With the award the lab will continue to sustain all of the sample archiving and acquisition support activities.