BOSCORF | British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility

Welcome to the British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility

Providing a unique and strategic service to the UK scientific community

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Data archiving, visualisation and access

State of the art ITRAX micro-XRF core scanning, MSCL, XYZ, CIS and S core scanners

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Training and development

Offering support for postgraduate and post-doc researchers in all aspects of core analysis

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Advanced Training Course

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Optimum core storage and preservation

Long term care of whole and split sediment cores at 5°C

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About BOSCORF

The British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility is Britain's national core repository, offering researchers access to the most comprehensive suite of state-of-the-art core logging facilities in the United Kingdom.

Apply here for the May 2019 course

Applications for the May course open until 14th March 2019, please use the linked form to apply. Applicants will be notified by the 22nd March.

Sample and Analysis Request

New sample and analysis request procedures are in place from January 2019. Please use the updated sample request form, and the separate analysis request form for all future works. Guidance notes are available on the link.

Latest News

Lake Hashilan ITRAX study

Shipwrecks from the Black Sea

Outreach and 3D printed foraminifera

Characterising failure planes of submarine landslides – the AFEN submarine slide complex

Lake sediment core recovered during recent fieldwork - Image Credit Alice Carter-Champion

Reconstructing the variability of lake sediment records at climatically sensitive latitudes

CT scanning of tephra layers reveals micro-features within sediments

Current Vacancies in BOSCORF

BOSCORF Introductory course, January 2018

Latest Publications

Millennial and centennial variations in zircon U-Pb ages in the quaternary indus submarine canyon

Year of Publication 2019

Tracing marine cryptotephras in the North Atlantic during the last glacial period: Improving the North Atlantic marine tephrostratigraphic framework

Year of Publication 2018

Tracing marine cryptotephras in the North Atlantic during the last glacial period: Protocols for identification, characterisation and evaluating depositional controls

Year of Publication 2018

Sedimentary records of coastal storm surges: Evidence of the 1953 North Sea event

Year of Publication 2018

Increased Fluid Flow Activity in Shallow Sediments at the 3 km Long Hugin Fracture in the Central North Sea

Year of Publication 2018

Palaeoseismology from microfabric and geochemical analysis of lacustrine sediment, Windermere, UK

Year of Publication 2018

Ice-sheet modulation of deglacial North American monsoon intensification

Year of Publication 2018

Multi-stage volcanic island flank collapses with coeval explosive caldera-forming eruptions

Year of Publication 2018

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