ACRONYM | DEFINITION |
BOSCORE | British Ocean Sediment Core Repository, Guy Rothwell, Curator |
BCR | Bremen Core Repository of the Ocean Drilling Program |
DOSEC | Drilling Observational Sampling of the Earth's Crust |
DSDP | Deep Sea Drilling Project |
ESH | Earth System History, a National Science Foundation initiative of the US Global Change Research Program |
EUROCORE | A 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.) |
GEOMAR | Research Center for Marine Geosciences, Kiel University, Germany |
GEOTEK | Manufacturers of multisensor tracks. Peter Schultheiss, owner/contact |
GRAPE | Gamma-ray attenuation porosity evaluator |
ICDP | International Continental Drilling Programme |
IMAGES | International Marine Global Change Study |
JPEG | An image storage format, "Joint Photographic Experts Group" |
LDEO | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory |
LRC | Limnological Research Center (at the University of Minnesota) |
MAST | Marine Science and Technology |
MGSL | Marine Geological Samples Laboratory (at the University of Rhode Island) |
MRC | Micropaleontology Reference Center |
MSCL | Multi-Sensor Core Logger |
MST | Multi-Sensor Testing |
NERC | Natural Environment Research Council - Lead science funding organization in the UK. |
NGDC | US National Geophysical Data Center |
NIOZ | Netherlands Institute for Sea Research |
NSF | US National Science Foundation |
NTSI | New Technologies in Scientific Imaging |
ODP | Ocean Drilling Program |
OSU | Oregon State University |
PAGES | Past Global Changes/International Geosphere-Biosphere Project |
SCAT | Split Core Analysis Track, developed by Alan Mix and others at Oregon State |
SIO | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
UNOLS | University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (coordinates US ships' scheduling) |
UK | United Kingdom |
US | United States of America |
URI | University of Rhode Island |
URL | Universal Resource Locator |
USC | University of Southern California |
UW | University of Washington |
WDC GMG, Boulder | World Data Center for Geophysics & Marine Geology, Boulder, operated by NGDC |
WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
XRF-CS | X-ray Fluorescence Core Scanner |