Collaborative Research: CoreWall - Integrated Environment for Interpretation of Geoscientific Data from Sediment and Crystalline Cores

在与IODP、ICDP、冰芯、湖泊地质学和古湖泊学研究团体的广泛合作下，CoreWall Consortium(明尼苏达大学的LacCore、哥伦比亚大学Lamont-Doherty地球天文台的钻孔研究小组、芝加哥伊利诺伊大学的电子可视化实验室和科罗拉多大学的INSTAAR)将共同开发CoreWall Suite，这是一个实时地层对比、岩心描述(CD)和数据可视化系统，供海洋、陆地和南极科学界使用。CoreWall Suite建立的工作模式将通过为野外和储存库环境的岩心描述和分析提供一个综合环境，从而显著改变和加强目前用于岩心描述和分析的方法。特别是，CoreWall Suite将采用新的NCLIP软件，这是Lamont集团10多年前开发的CLIP(如Sagan和Splier)的更新版。CoreWall Suite将是便携的，能够在笔记本电脑和瓷砖显示器等各种显示平台上工作，因此可以在野外、实验室和个人办公室环境中使用。该项目产生了各种重大的更广泛的影响，包括本科生和研究生的参与。CoreWall Suite将用于各种外展活动以及课堂使用。

In broad collaboration with the IODP, ICDP, ice-core, limnogeology and paleolimnology research communities, the CoreWall Consortium (the LacCore at the U. of Minnesota, Borehole Research Group at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Electronic Visualization Laboratory at U. of Illinois at Chicago, and INSTAAR at the U. of Colorado) will jointly develop CoreWall Suite, a real-time stratigraphic correlation, core description (CD) and data visualization system to be used by the marine, terrestrial and Antarctic science communities. The work model forged by the CoreWall Suite will significantly alter and enhance the current approaches used for core description and analysis of sediment and rock cores by providing an integrated environment for these activities, for both field and repository environments. In particular, the CoreWall Suite will incorporate the new NCLIP software, the updated version of CLIP (e.g.,Sagan and Splicer) that was developed by the Lamont group more than 10 years ago. The CoreWall Suite will be portable, able to work on a variety of display platforms such as laptops and tiled displays, hence allowing it to be used in the field, laboratory and individual office settings. This project entails a variety of significant broader impacts including involvement of undergraduate and graduate students. The CoreWall Suite will be useful for a variety of outreach activities as well as classroom use.