College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences

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?