Facility Support: National Lacustrine Core Repository and Initial Core Analysis Laboratory (LacCore)

设施支持：国家湖相岩心储存库和初始岩心分析实验室（LacCore）

• 批准号: 0652769
• 负责人: Emi Ito
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-03-01 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0652769&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Facility; Support; National; Lacustrine; Core

Three years of continued support of a national lacustrine core repository and initial core analysis laboratory at the University of Minnesota (LacCore) is provided by this grant. LacCore operates open laboratories to allow community access to specialized field and laboratory equipment and staff expertise for Initial Core Description (ICD) methods including non-destructive multi-sensor core logging and digital core photography. LacCore also provides refrigerated core storage and archival services. LacCore currently houses in excess of 6000 m of lake cores. Roughly 80% of core materials were recovered from GLAD (Global LAkes Drilling) projects conducted worldwide, the remaining 20% of core materials are from smaller lake coring projects. Expansion of the archive over the period of support is anticipated. Funding provides salary for a full-time core repository curator and core analysis lab manager. The facility serves the limnological research community for studies that contribute to our understanding of past climates, ecological systems, and biogeochemical dynamics on the continents. LacCore trains undergraduate and graduate students in methods of core description and analysis and facility staff participate in outreach activities to Native American middle- and high school environmental camps in Minnesota.

这笔赠款为明尼苏达大学 (LacCore) 的国家湖泊岩心储存库和初始岩心分析实验室提供了三年的持续支持。 LacCore 运营开放实验室，让社区能够使用专门的现场和实验室设备以及工作人员的专业知识，以进行初始岩心描述 (ICD) 方法，包括无损多传感器岩心测井和数字岩心摄影。 LacCore 还提供冷藏核心存储和归档服务。 LacCore 目前拥有超过 6000 米的湖心。 大约 80% 的岩心材料是从全球开展的 GLAD（全球湖泊钻探）项目中回收的，其余 20% 的岩心材料来自较小的湖泊取芯项目。 预计在支持期间存档会扩展。 资金为全职核心存储库管理员和核心分析实验室经理提供薪水。 该设施为湖泊学研究界提供研究服务，有助于我们了解大陆过去的气候、生态系统和生物地球化学动力学。 LacCore 对本科生和研究生进行核心描述和分析方法的培训，设施工作人员参加明尼苏达州美洲原住民初中和高中环境营的外展活动。