British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility (BOSCORF)

英国海洋沉积物岩心研究设施（BOSCORF）是一个独特的、国际公认的设施，为英国社区提供了一些欧洲最好的岩心测井设施。它提供所有NERC主题科学优先领域使用的研究设施，并直接为NERC指导和核心计划以及备受瞩目的国际项目做出贡献。其最先进的设施支持英国在NERC任务所涵盖的所有领域的关键研究。BOSCORF于1997年作为NERC设施成立，核心储存库于2001年进行了扩展，这一扩展的设想是为未来十年的核心收购（即到2011年）提供存储。自2001年以来，BOSCORF的核心材料持有量大幅增长，仅2014年就增长了20%。2018年，BOSCORF内的沉积物岩心总量为8.8公里，相当于NERC在收集沉积物的船舶时间上的2.95亿英镑投资。自2014年以来，每年的用户数量增加了一倍以上，该设施支持的博士生数量增加了三倍。近年来，除了海洋地质学家外，BOSCORF的用户群也显著扩大，包括考古学家、地理学家和生物医学研究人员。这表明了BOSCORF设施在广泛的研究领域的重要性。

The British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility (BOSCORF) is a unique and internationally-recognised facility providing the UK community with some of the best core logging facilities available in Europe. It provides research facilities used in all NERC Theme Science Priority Areas and contributes directly to NERC Directed and Core Programmes and high-profile international projects. Its state-of-the-art facilities underpin crucial UK research in all areas encompassed by the NERC mission.BOSCORF was founded as a NERC facility in 1997 and the core repository was extended in 2001, this extension was envisaged as providing storage for the next ten years of core acquisition (i.e. to 2011). Since 2001, BOSCORF's core holdings have increased very significantly with 2014 alone seeing a 20% increase in core material held. In 2018, the total volume of sediment cores held within BOSCORF is 8.8 km, which equates to £295 million investment by NERC in ship time for their collection.Since 2014, the number of users per year has more than doubled and the number of Ph.D. students supported by the facility has increased threefold. Recent years have also seen a marked widening of the BOSCORF user base to include archaeologists, geographers and biomedical researchers in addition to marine geologists. This demonstrates the importance of BOSCORF facilities in a wide range of research areas.