Curatorial Resources

Institutions with Sea Floor and/or Lakebed Geological Sample Repositories:

Choose the next to an institution to search their sample collection

• Alfred-Wegener-Institut
  (http://www.awi.de/)
  
  
• Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility, Florida State University
  (http://www.arf.fsu.edu/)
  
  
• Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Natural Resources Canada
  (http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/)
  
  
• British Geological Survey, National Environment Research Council
  (http://www.bgs.ac.uk/collections/home.html)
  
  
• British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility, National Oceanography Centre
  (http://www.boscorf.org/)
  
  
• Byrd Polar Research Center Sediment Core Repository
  (http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/geo/repository.php)
  
  
• GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
  (http://www.geomar.de/en/centre/central-facilities/tlz/lithothek/)
  
  
• GeoScience Australia
  (http://www.ga.gov.au/energy/projects/petroleum-data-repository.html)
  
  
• IFREMER Géosciences Marine Centre de Brest
  (http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/)
  
  
• Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Departament de Geologia Marina (CMIMA-CSIC), Spain
  (http://www.icm.csic.es/gma/)
  
  
• International Ocean Discovery Program (U.S. Core Repository), including Deep Sea Drilling Project & Ocean Drilling Program Cores, Texas A&M University
  (http://iodp.tamu.edu/curation/)
  
  
• Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
  (http://www.jamstec.go.jp/kochi/jc_curation/e/)
  
  
• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
  (http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/core-repository)
  
  
• Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
  (http://geocores.mnhn.fr/)
  
  
• National Lacustrine Core Repository, University of Minnesota
  (http://lrc.geo.umn.edu/LacCore/laccore.html)
  
  
• National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
  (http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/index.html)
  
  
• Oregon State University, College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences
  (http://core-repository.coas.oregonstate.edu/)
  
  
• Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami
  (http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/)
  
  
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California-San Diego
  (https://scripps.ucsd.edu/geological-collections)
  
  
• School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii
  (http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/)
  
  
• US Geological Survey, Santa Cruz Repository
  (http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/programs/html/main/sample-dist-policy.html)
  
  
• US Geological Survey, St. Petersburg Repository
  (http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/)
  
  
• US Geological Survey, Woods Hole Repository
  (http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/samprepo/)
  
  
• University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography
  (http://www.gso.uri.edu/blog/marine-geological-samples-laboratory/)
  
  
• University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences
  (http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/earth/)
  
  
• University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics
  (http://www.ig.utexas.edu/)
  
  
• University of Wisconsin, Department of Geoscience
  (http://geology.wisc.edu/)
  
  
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  (http://www.whoi.edu/corelab/)
  
  

Transnational Searches of Seafloor & Lakebed Samples:

• Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples (IMLGS)(also http://seabedsamples.org)
  
  

More Sources of Seafloor & Lakebed Data:

• Delphi Project, Paleoceanographic Data
  
  
• EU-SEASED European Data System
  
  
• Geo-Seas/SeaDataNet Pan-European Marine Geology & Geophysics Data System
  
  
• PANGAEA
  
  
• SEDIS (DSDP/ODP/IODP) Scientific Earth Drilling Information System
  
  
• GRID Arendal in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme
  
  
• World Data Service for Geophysics collocated with the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (formerly NGDC)