Archive of Geosample Data and Information from the University of Rhode Island (URI) Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO), Marine Geological Samples Laboratory (MGSL)
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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The Marine Geological Samples Laboratory (MGSL) of the Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO), University of Rhode Island serves as the central repository for dredge rocks, deep-sea cores, grabs and land-based geological samples collected by the Marine Geology and Geophysics group at GSO/URI. The facility is located on the Narragansett Bay Campus of the University of Rhode Island in Narragansett, R.I. A large part of the funding for curatorial activities in the MGSL is obtained from the Ocean Science Division of the National Science Foundation. The MGSL maintains a large collection of marine geological samples that are available to qualified investigators through the University of Rhode Island's sample distribution policy. URI is a partner in the Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples (IMLGS) database. As a partner repository, URI sends data and information related to the MGSL sample collection to NCEI for long-term archive, and for discoverability via the IMLGS.