Curation Of National Antarctic Sediment Collections

国家南极沉积物收藏的管理

• 批准号: 1457577
• 负责人: Vincent Salters
• 金额: $ 53.94万
• 依托单位: Florida State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-15 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1457577&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Curation; National; Antarctic; Sediment; Collections

This proposal would provide funding for continued operation of the Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility (AMGRF) at Florida State University. This facility is the NSF repository of sediment cores from the ocean floor surrounding Antarctica, and makes sediment cores available to the entire scientific community, providing the equipment and knowledge necessary for scientists to collect samples for specialized measurements. The sediments provide a record of past climate, ocean circulation, and ice sheet history, and were recovered at great cost using piston cores deployed from research vessels and rotary coring from drilling platforms. The funding supports a curator, an assistant curator, and a student work force from FSU. This staff supports visiting scientists, manages the collections and the equipment used for core characterization and sampling, and maintain data bases. The AMGRF houses a unique collection of sediment cores from the Southern Oceans and has served in this role for the past 50 years. The Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility (AMGRF) at Florida State University, the NSF repository of Southern Ocean piston- and drill-cores, has been conducting marine geological research and providing numerous services to the Antarctic and Earth Science Community in its present building for the past 50 years. This proposal requests operating funds to (a) continue provide these services, (b) manage archives and databases, (c) complete necessary upgrades of the AMGRF Cold-Room, and (d) continue our education and outreach programs for students and the general public. The AMGRF archives and curates more than 23,000 m of cored sediment (over 7,000 cores) collected by United States Antarctic Program (USAP) vessels. The Facility also archives and curates some 5,500 m of rotary-cored material from international programs such as ANDRILL. The standard core processing services include core splitting, Multi-Sensor Track analyses, core photography, whole-core x-rays, etc., core description publications (macroscopic and microscopic), and core sampling. Facility personnel also provide curatorial support services to field-based projects upon request. Analytical equipment at the AMGRF serves the research needs of Facility personnel (for the generation of detailed core descriptions), NSF Principal Investigators involved with the United States Antarctic Program (USAP), and qualified users from the scientific community in the U.S. and beyond. This equipment provides users of the Facility with the necessary tools to rapidly and objectively analyze the piston cores and drill cores sent to the Facility each year. The AMGRF maintains a core and sample database with the latest map-sample search capabilities that can be accessed through the continuously upgraded Facility website. This searchable database contains basic information about all the cores stored at the facility, as well as information on samples taken from 1964 to the present. In addition to the sediment core archives the AMGRF also keeps archives of ship and deck-logs, a collection of ca. 862,000 microscope slides, and a library of AMGRF related publications. Facility personnel routinely provide tours and lectures for students and the general public.

该建议将为佛罗里达州立大学南极海洋地质研究机构（AMGRF）的持续运作提供资金。 该设施是来自南极洲周围海底的沉积物岩心的NSF储存库，并使整个科学界都可以使用沉积物核心，为科学家提供了采样所需的设备和知识，以收集样品进行专门测量。 沉积物提供了过去的气候，海洋循环和冰盖历史记录的记录，并使用从研究船上部署的活塞芯和从钻井平台中部署的旋转芯来以巨大的成本回收。 这笔资金支持FSU的策展人，助理策展人和学生劳动力。 该工作人员支持来访的科学家，管理用于核心表征和采样的收藏和设备，并维护数据库。 AMGRF拥有来自南洋的独特沉积核心，并在过去的50年中一直担任该职务。佛罗里达州立大学的南极海洋地质研究机构（AMGRF）是南大洋活塞和钻核的NSF储存库，一直在进行海洋地质研究，并在其目前的建筑物中为过去50年的南极和地球科学社区提供了许多服务。该建议要求（a）继续提供这些服务，（b）管理档案和数据库，（c）完成AMGRF冷室的必要升级，以及（d）继续我们的学生和公众的教育和外展计划。 美国南极计划（USAP）船只收集的AMGRF档案和策划了超过23,000 m的核心沉积物（超过7,000个核心）。该设施还从安德里尔（Andrill）等国际计划中归档和策划约5500 m的旋转式材料。标准的核心处理服务包括核心分裂，多传感器轨道分析，核心摄影，全核X射线等，核心描述出版物（宏观和显微镜）和核心采样。设施人员还应要求为基于现场的项目提供策展支持服务。 AMGRF的分析设备可满足设施人员的研究需求（用于生成详细的核心描述），参与美国南极计划（USAP）（USAP）的NSF首席研究人员以及美国及其他地区科学界的合格用户。该设备为设施的用户提供了必要的工具，以快速和客观地分析每年发送到该设施的活塞芯和钻头。 AMGRF维护了一个核心和示例数据库，并具有最新的MAP-样本搜索功能，可以通过不断升级的设施网站访问。 该可搜索的数据库包含有关该设施中存储的所有核心的基本信息，以及从1964年到现在收集的样本的信息。除了沉积物核心档案外，AMGRF还保留了船舶和甲板档案的档案，这是CA的集合。 862,000个显微镜幻灯片和与AMGRF相关的出版物库。 设施人员通常为学生和公众提供参观和讲座。