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Chapter 7 Objectives

This chapter provides the background and context to document what happens upon the conclusion of the drilling process at sea, when the drilling vessels and mission-specific platforms return to port with collected core, samples and data.

Learning Objectives for Chapter 7: Curation On Board and On Shore

After reviewing the content in this chapter and completing the exercises, students will be able to:

  • Understand the uses of repositories over time and how they have played a role in scientific work
  • Describe the three different repositories around the world, and the role curation has in maintaining them
Multiple people wearing masks and hard hats dumping rock out of a plastic tube
Doris Piñero Lajas (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO), Michelle Penkrot (Curatorial Specialist, IODP JRSO), and Eric Moortgat (Laboratory Officer, IODP JRSO) place a just-arrived rock core into half split liners and mark the direction of pieces as they come out of the core liner, as the first step in curation and sampling. (Credit: Erick Bravo, IODP JRSO,  MerlinOne photo archive, CC BY 4.0)

 

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