| General info | |
| Project title | Internet database of seabed samples from the Ocean Basins held at European Institutions |
| Project acronym | EUROCORE |
| Associated programme | EU Programme |
| Project website | http://www.eu-seased.net |
| Begin date | 1998-11-01 |
| End date | 2001-11-01 |
| Location | |
| Geographic coverage | European regional seas and global oceans |
| Description | |
| Abstract | EUROCORE addresses a fundamental problem relating to marine sample data management within Europe and will enable, and streamline, exploitation of an important, existing raw data resource - the very large number of sediment cores collected by, and stored at, European research centres, universities and core repositories. After they have served the primary data requirement for which they were collected, seafloor samples are normally stored in controlled environments for further use. Tens of thousands of marine sediment cores are dispersed in archives throughout Europe, yet it is currently very difficult for end-users of seabed data to find out what seafloor samples have been collected and stored throughout the countries of the European Union. It was decided to combine the efforts of EUROCORE in the academic domain with the efforts of EUMARSIN in the marine geological service domain. Therefore all metadata of EUROCORE have been included in the EU-SeaSed website service, giving a standard index to all marine geological samples and cores, obtained by European institutes. After the official project end EUROCORE is continued and maintained as an operational service as part of the EU-SeaSed website service. |
| Coordinator | |
| Coordinating organisation | National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)
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| Country of Coordinator | United Kingdom |
| Contact name | Dr R.G. Rothwell |
| Contact organisation | National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)
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| Email | r.g.rothwell@soc.soton.ac.uk |
| Project partners | |
| Other partners | Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Geophysics Department
CNR, National Research Council, Institute of Marine Science (Bologna)
CSIC, Institute of Marine Sciences
French Geological Survey (BRGM)
GEOMAR Research Centre for Marine Geosciences
Instituto Geologico e Mineiro
Marine Information Service
TNO Geological Survey of the Netherlands
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| Edmerp metadata | |
| Edmerp id | 9658 |
| Collating centre | British Oceanographic Data Centre
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| Latest update | 2008-08-11 |
