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19 January 2024
Marine sediment cores are stored in this space at the Lamont-Doherty Core Repository. Credit: Nichole Anest Colleagues and friends from URI, LDEO, OSU, and WHOI recently published an article in EOS titled "The Importance of Archiving the Seafloor" (click here). They emphasize the crucial role played by repositories like BOSCORF in preserving extensive sample collections and providing expertise to address questions about Earth's climate, marine life, and geohazards. Uniting globally as '...
28 November 2023
Today, we welcomed a brand new Cox Analytical Itrax FleXRay X-ray fluorescence sediment core scanner to our research facility. Providing the only wet or dry sediment Itrax FlexRay scanner in the UK. New Itrax fully operational in the Analytical Lab The facility has operated an Itrax core scanner since 2004, which has led to over 300 papers, with 100 of these being in high impact journals. The state-of-the-art Itrax FleXRay can measure elements between Al and U...
28 November 2023
Last week, BOSCORF hosted a workshop for the Micropalaeontological Society's AGM, that was being held at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton.  The Micropalaeontological Society (TMS) exists “to advance the education of the public in the study of Micropalaeontology” and is operated “exclusively for scientific and educational purposes and not for profit”. The Society comprises five specialist groups that study Foraminifera, Nannofossils, Ostracods,...
3 November 2023
Over the past year, BOSCORF has been helping PhD student, Hannah Muir, to split, image and process sediment cores from the Isle of Man. Hannah Muir is a PhD student at Swansea University, based at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS). Her PhD research project is part of The Manx Blue Carbon Project, which aims to quantify how much carbon is stored and accumulated within the Isle of Man’s territorial sea to inform decisions that could maximise natural carbon storage around the...