Curating and Maintenance of the Sediment Library and Dredge Collection

Abstract

The Lamont-Doherty Deep-Sea Sample Repository houses a collection of the most diversified as well as the largest number of different sites of deep-sea sediment cores in the world (Figure 1). For over 53 years, the collection has continuously grown. Researchers from all over the world use the material for work as diversified as searching for evidence of cosmic impacts on the ocean floor, mapping routes of ice bergs and sea ice, reconstructing past climate, and environmental studies. A large percentage of the cores and dredges were collected through ONR programs and support.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2003
Accession Number
ADA629793

Entities

People

  • Gerard C. Bond
  • Ramona Lotti

Organizations

  • Columbia University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Composition
  • Climate Change
  • Databases
  • Gray Scale
  • Ice
  • Images
  • Maintenance
  • Mass Storage
  • Materials
  • Metadata
  • New York
  • Oceanographic Engineering
  • Physical Properties
  • Sea Ice
  • Seabed
  • Sediments
  • Storage

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Economics
  • Oceanography.