Marine Geological Samples Laboratory: Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island(support of marine sample curation)

海洋地质样品实验室：罗德岛大学海洋学研究生院（支持海洋样品管理）

• 批准号: 1555523
• 负责人: Katherine Kelley
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: University of Rhode Island
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-15 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1555523&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Marine; Geological; Samples; Laboratory; Graduate

Samples of seafloor rocks, cores, corals, hydrothermal vent fluids and chimney deposits, sediments, other materials are valuable scientific resources that are collected at great expense on scientific oceanographic expeditions. Some samples come from shallow, near-shore environments of unusual and ephemeral character and others come from mid-ocean ridges, seamounts, the abyssal plain, the roots of volcanic islands, and continental shelves. Many samples come from inaccessible places miles below the surface of the ocean and are retrieved from the seafloor by specialized robotic vehicles, human occupied submersibles, coring devices, and/or rock dredges. To preserve these valuable samples and make them available to other scientists for studies not envisioned by the original collectors, the Marine Geology and Geophysics Program of the Division of Ocean Sciences of the National Science Foundation funds four professionally run repositories that house samples collected by seagoing scientists. This award funds the curation, storage, and distribution of marine seafloor samples by the University of Rhode Island's Marine Geological Sample Laboratory. Samples are distributed upon request to scientists and educators wishing to better understand the ocean basins, the distribution of its resources, and how the Earth works. Over the past 3 years, this repository has distributed more than 8,000 samples of seafloor material to US and international scientists to advance our knowledge of the seafloor, ocean crust, mantle, seafloor volcanism, and the history of ocean chemistry and Earth's climate. Samples from the repositories have been used to pioneer new analytical techniques and provide important insights into seafloor, the continental margins, and sub-oceanic magmatic processes. This award augments a significant investment by the University of Rhode Island by supporting additional staffing in the form of a graduate student dedicated to working with the other repository staff to maintain the collection, collect and verify submitted information on the samples, and enter these data and metadata into an online database that makes the collection visible to interested parties via the Internet so scientists and educators can find and request samples for research and education. Broader impacts of the work include graduate level course involvement and public outreach via tours for primary and secondary school groups, local community organizations, and other interested parties. This award also provides support for an essential piece of marine geology infrastructure and provides support to an institution in a state that does not receive a significant amount of Federal funding (i.e., an EPSCoR state).

海底岩石、岩芯、珊瑚、热液喷口流体和烟囱沉积物、沉积物和其他材料的样本是宝贵的科学资源，是在海洋科学考察中花费巨资收集的。 一些样本来自具有不寻常和短暂特征的浅海近岸环境，另一些样本来自洋中脊、海山、深海平原、火山岛的根部和大陆架。 许多样本来自海洋表面以下数英里处难以到达的地方，并通过专用机器人车辆、载人潜水器、取芯设备和/或挖岩机从海底取回。 为了保存这些有价值的样本，并将其提供给其他科学家进行原始收集者未设想的研究，美国国家科学基金会海洋科学部的海洋地质和地球物理学计划资助了四个专业运行的存储库，用于存放由航海科学家收集的样本。 该奖项资助罗德岛大学海洋地质样本实验室对海洋海底样本的管理、储存和分发。样品根据要求分发给希望更好地了解海洋盆地、其资源分布以及地球如何运作的科学家和教育工作者。在过去 3 年里，该资源库已向美国和国际科学家分发了 8,000 多个海底材料样本，以增进我们对海底、洋壳、地幔、海底火山活动以及海洋化学和地球气候历史的了解。 储存库中的样本已被用来开拓新的分析技术，并为海底、大陆边缘和海底岩浆过程提供重要的见解。 该奖项增加了罗德岛大学的一项重大投资，通过支持额外的人员配置，以研究生的形式致力于与其他存储库工作人员合作，以维护收集，收集和验证提交的样本信息，并输入这些数据和将元数据存入在线数据库中，使感兴趣的各方可以通过互联网查看这些藏品，以便科学家和教育工作者可以找到并索取用于研究和教育的样本。 这项工作的更广泛影响包括研究生水平课程的参与以及通过中小学团体、当地社区组织和其他感兴趣团体的参观进行公众宣传。 该奖项还为海洋地质基础设施的重要部分提供支持，并为未获得大量联邦资金的州（即 EPSCoR 州）的机构提供支持。