WHOI Sea Floor Samples Laboratory: Curation and distribution of samples from the sea floor in the service of marine science and education

WHOI 海底样本实验室：为海洋科学和教育服务的海底样本的管理和分发

• 批准号: 2311328
• 负责人: Jeffrey Donnelly
• 金额: $ 198.67万
• 依托单位: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-01 至 2028-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2311328&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WHOI; Sea; Floor; Samples; Laboratory

This project supports the operation of the Seafloor Sample Laboratory at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. This repository has more than 26,000 samples from the world’s oceans. Samples from the collection are distributed to researchers and educators across the globe. Research using collection samples have addressed important problems related to climate change, ocean circulation, ocean resources, and geohazards. Repository personnel engage in numerous outreach and education activities. Undergraduate interns, including those from underrepresented groups in the geosciences, assist in repository activities.Previously acquired samples curated at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Seafloor Samples Laboratory provide opportunities for a wide variety of research projects including preliminary studies, investigations where archived material plays a supplemental role to ongoing research, and stand-alone ventures that depend wholly on those materials already collected. Sample requests are fulfilled for scholars, educators, and students from around the world at no cost to the end user. Continuing support from the National Science Foundation enables the Seafloor Samples Laboratory to provide consistent and quality facilities and services to an international community of Earth and environmental scientists. The purpose of the repository facilitates marine science and education by providing access to valuable samples from the seafloor collected over many decades. To do this lab personnel work to 1) expand and curate the collections, 2) distribute geological subsamples to clients, 3) promote access to the diverse collections via outreach programs and web and data services, 4) serve as a community resource for field sampling techniques, and 5) collaborate with and train scientists and students in best practices. Data obtained from samples in the collection are an enduring resource for the community to ask new and innovative questions and for the development and application of new techniques. These activities lead to novel scientific insights. Samples provided to researchers are being used to examine a vast array of topics including tectonics, rheology, minerology, climate change, geohazards, and environmental pollution.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目支持伍兹霍尔海洋研究所海底样本实验室的运作，该存储库拥有来自世界各地海洋的 26,000 多个样本，这些样本被分发给全球各地的研究人员和教育工作者。与气候变化、海洋环流、海洋资源和地质灾害有关的问题，知识库人员参与了大量的外展和教育活动，包括来自地球科学领域代表性不足的群体的实习生。以前在伍兹霍尔海洋研究所海底样本实验室采集的样本为各种研究项目提供了机会，包括初步研究、存档材料对正在进行的研究起到补充作用的调查，以及完全依赖的独立企业国家科学基金会的持续支持使海底样本实验室能够为来自世界各地的学者、教育工作者和学生提供一致且优质的设施和服务。该储存库的目的是通过提供数十年来从海底收集的有价值的样本来促进海洋科学和教育。该实验室人员的工作是：1）扩大和管理收藏品。向客户分发地理子样本，3）通过外展计划以及网络和数据服务促进对不同馆藏的访问，4）作为现场采样技术的社区资源，5）与科学家和学生合作并培训最佳数据实践。获得自收集中的样本是社区提出新的和创新的问题以及新技术的开发和应用的持久资源。提供给研究人员的样本被用来检查大量的主题，包括。构造学、流变学、矿物学、气候变化、地质灾害和环境污染。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。