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Minutes 1998 Curators of Marine Geological Samples Meeting

ATTACHMENT 3

LIST OF ACRONYMS, ABBREVIATIONS AND DEFINITIONS USED IN CURATORS' 1998 MEETING

ACRONYMDEFINITION
BOSCOREBritish Ocean Sediment Core Repository, Guy Rothwell, Curator
BCRBremen Core Repository of the Ocean Drilling Program
DOSECDrilling Observational Sampling of the Earth's Crust
DSDPDeep Sea Drilling Project
ESHEarth System History, a National Science Foundation initiative of the US Global Change Research Program
EUROCOREA European Union project building a centralized searchable Internet database of core repository data within Europe. (This acronym is under review and will change in the near future.)
GEOMARResearch Center for Marine Geosciences, Kiel University, Germany
GEOTEKManufacturers of multisensor tracks. Peter Schultheiss, owner/contact
GRAPEGamma-ray attenuation porosity evaluator
ICDPInternational Continental Drilling Programme
IMAGESInternational Marine Global Change Study
JPEGAn image storage format, "Joint Photographic Experts Group"
LDEOLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
LRCLimnological Research Center (at the University of Minnesota)
MASTMarine Science and Technology
MGSLMarine Geological Samples Laboratory (at the University of Rhode Island)
MRCMicropaleontology Reference Center
MSCLMulti-Sensor Core Logger
MSTMulti-Sensor Testing
NERCNatural Environment Research Council - Lead science funding organization in the UK.
NGDCUS National Geophysical Data Center
NIOZNetherlands Institute for Sea Research
NSFUS National Science Foundation
NTSINew Technologies in Scientific Imaging
ODPOcean Drilling Program
OSUOregon State University
PAGESPast Global Changes/International Geosphere-Biosphere Project
SCATSplit Core Analysis Track, developed by Alan Mix and others at Oregon State
SIOScripps Institution of Oceanography
UNOLSUniversity-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (coordinates US ships' scheduling)
UKUnited Kingdom
USUnited States of America
URIUniversity of Rhode Island
URLUniversal Resource Locator
USCUniversity of Southern California
UWUniversity of Washington
WDC GMG, BoulderWorld Data Center for Geophysics & Marine Geology, Boulder, operated by NGDC
WHOIWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution
XRF-CSX-ray Fluorescence Core Scanner

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