Guest Scientists:
Rusty Lotti Bond--A Visit to the Deep Sea Sample Repository and Gar Esmay--A Visit to the IODP East Coast Repository

Since its beginning in the late 1940s, Lamont scientists have endeavored to collect samples of the materials beneath their research vessels for future study. Many amazing discoveries about our planet have resulted from this policy, established by "Doc" Ewing, LDEO's Founder. Today, more than 72 miles of sediments, dredge samples, and other materials are housed in the Deep Sea Sample Repository. Curator Rusty Lotti Bond will share some of the techniques and understandings that have been made through such research.
Deep Sea Sample Repository home page: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/fac/CORE_REPOSITORY/RHP1.html

Not far from the LDEO Deep Sea Sample Repository is the East Coast Repository of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (http://iodp.tamu.edu/curation/repositories.html#200). Here are archived cores and other materials brought up by the "Glomar Challenger" and "JOIDES Resolution" drilling vessels during the "Deep Sea Drilling Project" in the 1960s - 1980s and Ocean Drilling Project (1980s - 2003.) ECR Superintendent Gar Esmay will discuss information about the techniques used in these programs, and focus in on two special sites that have revealed much about Earth's climate history.