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College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. Marine Geology Repository. Oregon State University. Corvallis, Oregon. 16 th Curators Meeting June 11-13, 2013 Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Personnel. Curators: Joe Stoner and Anthony Koppers - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Marine Geology Repository
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon
16th Curators Meeting June 11-13, 2013 Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Personnel
• Curators: Joe Stoner and Anthony Koppers• Assistant Curator: Maziet Cheseby (1.0 FTE)• Assistant Curator: Mysti Weber (0.75 FTE)• Assistant Curator: Bobbi Conard (0.25 FTE)• Research Associate (Postdoc): Rob Hatfield (0.4 FTE)• Ben Thorpe: Undergraduate Intern (12hrs/wk)
• Three coring techs, all part time, not funded on corelab grant
• Paul Walczak, Chris Moser, Dale Hubbard
Brief History• established in 1972• Funded by NSF since 1976• acquired U.W. core collection in 1990• 3 facility expansions• 1994 expansion
– new describing lab– 36,000 cu.ft. refrigerator space
• 1998 purchased Geotek MST• 2001 added line scan camera to MST• 2007 new track for line scan camera• 2009 New 4000 cu.ft. refrigerator• 2010 Added 1350 cu.ft. Walk-In freezer• 2010 new paleomagnetic point source added to camera
track• 2012 developed MGR website with interactive capabilities• 2012 founding member of IGSN e.V.• 2013 acquired 2 Motorola bar code scanners (one remote)
for reading QR codes
Repository Holdings
• Over 6100 cores, almost 16,000M of mud• Almost 5500 dredges, over 10,000 rocks• About 2200 Manganese Nodules• Over 1600 sediment trap samples
– Both wet splits in formalin and dry material
Older Cores•In past 5 years we distributed just under 3,000 samples from cores taken before 1998 (15years ago)
•Oldest core sample distributed this year taken in 1965
W7905A-147P Sec.4 544-605cm Arch
Rock Storage
The 2010 Shuffle
Geotek Camera TrackAnd point mag system
In the lab
At sea on the R/V Melville
Cores arriving from the ship
MST van
Adventures in LearningMiddle School Enrichment Program
• Designed IGSN structure plan
• Information imbedded in QR
• Designed Structure of new database
• 2 Motorola bar code scanners
New Building
for the MGR?