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IODP Core Repositories

Repository lists updated 13 May 2008

IODP maintains three main core repositories: BCR, GCR, and KCC. Please contact one of the curators to verify the location of cores you are interested in sampling.

THE EAST COAST AND WEST COAST REPOSITORIES WILL STOP ACCEPTING SAMPLE REQUESTS AS OF 15 JUNE 2008. REQUESTS FOR ECR AND WCR REMAINING CORES WILL BE FULFILLED AT THE BCR AND GCR WHEN THOSE CORES HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED.

Bremen Core Repository

DSDP Legs: 2-4 (Sites 23-28), 11-14, 38, 41-53, 71-76, 78-82, 93-95
ODP Legs: 101, 103-108, 151-164, 166, 171-173, 174 (Sites 1071-1073), 175, 177, 188, 207-210
IODP Exp: 302-307

The Bremen Core Repository (BCR) is located at the University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany. When the core redistribution is complete, this repository will house cores collected from the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans (north of Bering Strait).

To contact the staff of this repository:

    E-mail: whale@uni-bremen.de,
    Telephone: 49-421-218-65566,
    Fax: 49-421-218-65565, or
    Write to: Walter Hale
    IODP Core Repository
    MARUM - University Bremen
    Leobener Str
    28359 Bremen
    Germany

    See the BCR web site.


Gulf Coast Repository

DSDP Legs: 1, 4 (Sites 29-31), 5, 6 (Sites 44-52, 55-59), 7-10, 15-18, 19 (Sites 183, 192-193), 20 (Sites 194-196, 198-202), 21 (Site 204), 28 (Sites 268-274), 29 (Sites 275, 277-279), 30 (Sites 288-289,), 32 (Sites 303-308, 310A-313), 33 (Sites 315-318), 34 (Sites 319-321), 35, 54 (Sites 419-425, 427-429), 55 (Sites 430-433), 61, 77
ODP Legs: 111-112, 113 (archive cores), 115 (archive cores), 122 (archive cores), 129, 130, 132 (Site 810), 134 (Sites 832-833), 135-148, 165, 167-170, 176, 178-181, 183 (Sites 1141-1142), 185, 187 (Sites 1153-1154), 191-192, 194 (archive cores), 196-206
IODP Exp: 301, 308-312

The Gulf Coast Repository (GCR) is located at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. When the core redistribution is complete, this repository will house cores from the Pacific Ocean (Pacific plate east of western boundary), the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, and the Southern Ocean (south of 60° except Kerguelen Plateau).

To contact the staff of this repository:

    E-mail: gcr@iodp.tamu.edu,
    Telephone: 979-845-5056,
    Fax: 979-845-0876, or
    Write to: Phil Rumford
    Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
    Texas A&M University
    1000 Discovery Drive
    College Station TX 77845-9547
    USA

    See the GCR web site.

Rutgers Core Repository

ODP Legs: 150X, 174AX
IODP Exp:

The Rutgers/NJGS Core Repository is a satellite repository of the GCR for New Jersey and Delaware land-based cores.


Kochi Core Center

DSDP Legs: 6 (Sites 53-54, 60), 18 (sample residues), 19 (Sites 184-191), 22-27, 28 (Sites 264-267), 29 (Sites 280-284), 30-31, 33 (sample residues), 56-60, 87, 90
ODP Legs: 115-118, 119 (Sites 736-738, 745), 120-128, 131 (Site 808), 132 (Site 809), 133, 134 (Sites 827-831), 182, 183 (Sites 1135-1140), 184, 186, 187 (Sites 1152, 1155-1164), 189-190, 193-195, 196 (Site 1173)
IODP Exp: 314-316

The Kochi Core Center (KCC) is located at Kochi University, Kochi, Japan. When the core redistribution is complete, this repository will house cores from the Pacific Ocean (west of western boundary of Pacific plate), the Indian Ocean (north of 60°), all of Kerguelen Plateau, and the Bering Sea.

To contact the staff of this repository:


ODP Core Repositories

Please see the Core Redistribution Plan (IODP web portal) as cores are in the process of being moved to the three IODP repositories.

East Coast Repository

THE ECR WILL STOP ACCEPTING SAMPLE REQUESTS AS OF 15 JUNE 2008. REQUESTS FOR ECR REMAINING CORES WILL BE FULFILLED AT THE BCR AND GCR WHEN THOSE CORES HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED.

DSDP Legs: 2-3, 11-14, 29 (Site 276), 36-37, 39-40, 96
ODP Legs: 100, 109-110, 113-114, 119 (Sites 739-744), 149-150, 174 (Site 1074)

The East Coast Repository (ECR) is located at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, USA. It has housed cores collected by the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) and ODP (Legs 1-150, 174A) from the Atlantic and Southern Oceans and the Black, Caribbean, and Mediterranean Seas.

To contact the staff of this repository:

    E-mail: ecr@iodp.tamu.edu,
    Telephone: 845-365-8446,
    Fax: 845-365-8178, or
    Write to: Gar Esmay
    Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
    East Coast Repository
    Geosciences Building, Room 104
    Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
    Palisades NY 10964
    USA


West Coast Repository

THE WCR WILL STOP ACCEPTING SAMPLE REQUESTS AS OF 15 JUNE 2008. REQUESTS FOR WCR REMAINING CORES WILL BE FULFILLED AT THE BCR AND GCR WHEN THOSE CORES HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED.

DSDP Legs: 19 (Sites 184-191), 20 (Site 197), 21 (Sites 203, 205-210), 25 (Sites 243-244), 32 (Site 309), 33-34, 54 (Site 426), 55 (Site 434), 62-70, 83-86, 88-89, 91-92

The West Coast Repository (WCR) is located at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, USA. It has housed cores collected by the DSDP from the Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Red Sea.

To contact the staff of this repository:

    E-mail: wcr@iodp.tamu.edu,
    Telephone: 858-534-1657,
    Fax: 858-534-4555, or
    Write to: Steve Prinz
    Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
    West Coast Repository
    Scripps Institution of Oceanography
    La Jolla CA 92093-0231
    USA

    See the WCR web site.



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