2013 curators of marine and lacustrine geological samples meeting kate jarrett june 13 2013...

2013 Curators of Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples Meeting Kate 2013 Curators of Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples Meeting Kate JarrettJarrett

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Geological Survey of Canada Geological Survey of Canada National Marine Geoscience National Marine Geoscience

Collection Collection

2013 Curators of Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples Meeting Kate Jarrett June 13 2013 2013 Curators of Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples Meeting Kate Jarrett June 13 2013


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GSC Collections SettingGSC Collections SettingGSC Collections SettingGSC Collections Setting

• The Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) is part of the Earth Sciences Sector (ESS) of the Federal Department of Natural Resources of Canada (NRCan)

• In 2006 the Earth Materials Collections (EMC) was established and it assumed the authority for collections life cycle management

• When established the EMC was within the Data Management Division (DMD) of the Mapping Information Branch (MIB)

• June 2012 MIB was tasked with integrating with the Canada Centre of Remote Sensing (CCRS) in order to create a national geospatial and earth observation organization. The new Branch is yet to be named but we (EMC) are now within the Collections Management and GeoInformation Division


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Earth Materials CollectionsEarth Materials CollectionsEarth Materials CollectionsEarth Materials Collections

• The EMC assumed authority for collections life cycle management now and beyond the end of a particular project or program

• The goal of the project is to provide professional management of collections and the associated documentation and to protect them from degradation, theft and destruction while permitting physical and intellectual access to the collections now and for the future

• Staff working on the EMC collections belong to either MIB or the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC)

• In the 2011 June budget the Government of Canada (GOC) announced it would conducting a Government - wide review of expenditures

• 2012 budget cuts and MIB staff were affected and the GSC funding for programs was reduced and marine field programs were affected


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• This project includes 6 facilities (16,000 m2 total) across Canada (Dartmouth, Quebec City, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, Sidney)

• There are many collections (50+) of many different materials rocks, fossils, core (rock, ice, unconsolidated sediment), water and unconsolidated material

• Each collection and facility are at different levels of sample and data management

• The EMC group are now developing a plan to transform the less well managed collections within the Department


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National Marine Geoscience National Marine Geoscience CollectionCollection

National Marine Geoscience National Marine Geoscience CollectionCollection

• The National Marine Geoscience Collection represents > 1.6 million sq.mi. area for offshore eastern Canada and the Canadian high Arctic, and coastal coverage stretching from the Canada/USA Gulf of Maine border to the marine areas of the Arctic Archipelago, Arctic Ocean and Beaufort Sea and also includes coastal coverage of western Canada

• 1225 expeditions back to 1950's• 1156 dredge samples• 29932 grab samples• 10540 core samples (4484 subcores)• 1816 drill/ borehole samples• 250,000 processed sample residues and slides/thin sections

• 28,000 records (seismic, bathymetry, magnetics, gravity, sidescan and logs)

• 23,000 paper records, 479 CD, 801 DVD, 11,110 tapes (reel to reel, VHS and Exabyte)

• cruise reports, associated data including x-ray images, core photography, core descriptions and data


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GSC Pacific (Sidney) GSC Pacific (Sidney) GSC Pacific (Sidney) GSC Pacific (Sidney)

• Occupies a campus with the Institute of Ocean Sciences (Department of Fisheries and Oceans)

• Shares the facilities and services including the use of Canadian Coastguard research vessels and equipment

• Samples are dispersed throughout the campus

• In both refrigerated and ambient storage

• In 2011 we began creating a digital catalogue of what there is and where it is. Also had to cull material to make space for new material.


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GSC AtlanticGSC AtlanticGSC AtlanticGSC Atlantic

• Co-located at BIO with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canadian Hydrographic Service, Environment Canada and Department of National Defence

• Shares the facilities and services including the use of Canadian Coastguard research vessels and equipment

• Majority of the Marine Geoscience Collection is archived at the GSC Atlantic Core Storage Facility


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GSC Atlantic Core Storage GSC Atlantic Core Storage FacilityFacility


• Secure 10,000 sq ft heated warehouse

• One 20’ reefer container

• Two 20’ seagoing containers for storage of samples and for use at sea


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• Ambient storage – moveable racking units

• Core storage capacity (10,500 benthos D-tubes, 5,500 LCF D-tubes)


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• Refrigerated storage – moveable racking units

• 2100 sq ft of refrigerated space in 2 walk in units maintained at 4 degrees C

• Core storage capacity (3195 benthos D-tubes and 11262 LCF D-tubes)


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• 5000 boxes containing 250,000 residue samples

• 2400 boxes of seismic records, digital seismic records, bridge and seismic logs. In 2012 purchased a new Spacesaver Unit to help accommodate the 1240 boxes recently removed from Library and Archives Canada (LAC)


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• space!


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GSC Atlantic MST LABGSC Atlantic MST LABGSC Atlantic MST LABGSC Atlantic MST LAB

• 2012 added new MST track to improve core processing flow

• Whole core analysis - Resistivity, Bulk density, Velocity, Loop sensor Magnetic Susceptibility

• Split core analysis - Line scan imaging, Point sensor Magnetic Susceptibility, Spectral reflectance, XRF


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GSC Atlantic Core Processing GSC Atlantic Core Processing LabLab

GSC Atlantic Core Processing GSC Atlantic Core Processing LabLab

• Standard procedure for all cores

• Whole core analysis for high res phys props

• Split core digital X-ray of W and A halves

• Digital Core Photography line scanning and digital core photography

• Spectral reflectance

• Core description

• Discrete acoustic velocity – transverse and longitudinal

• Discrete shear strength

• Constant volume sampling

• Additional sampling as requested

• 2011 329m (365 sections)

• 2012 261m (261 sections)


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GSC Atlantic Marine Sediment GSC Atlantic Marine Sediment LabLab

GSC Atlantic Marine Sediment GSC Atlantic Marine Sediment LabLab

• Manual wet/dry sieving (<53 or <63 um) to separate mud fractions and for analysis of the gravel component.

• Beckman Coulter LS230 Laser Diffraction Analyser provides rapid grain size (range 04. to 2000 um) down-core characterizations of split marine cores.

• Twin Bedford Institute Settling Tubes, Version 3 (BIST-3) >53 <1000 um• Micromeritics SediGraph 5100 X-Ray Analyzer w/ MasterTech 052

Autosampler for analysis of <53 um• Lab also performs foram preparations/separations, heavy mineral

separations, acoustical / optical backscatter instrument calibrations, < 2um clay slide preparation, advice / workspace for university students working on undergrad, MSc or PhD projects (up to 12 per year) .


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GSC Atlantic Marine GSC Atlantic Marine GeomechanicalGeomechanical LabLabGSC Atlantic Marine GSC Atlantic Marine GeomechanicalGeomechanical LabLab

• GDS Rowe Cell STD System

• Consolidation Testing• Fully automated• Designed for soft soils• Soil compressibility• Rate of settlement• Stress history

• Triaxial Testing • Fully automated

• Designed for soft soils

• Soil strength• Stress Strain

• Dynamic Testing• Fully automated• Dynamic loading• Soil response• Simulate earthquake


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GSC –Atlantic MultipurposeGSC –Atlantic MultipurposeGSC –Atlantic MultipurposeGSC –Atlantic Multipurpose

• Inorganic Geochemistry – atomic absorption

• Organic Geochemistry – coulter counter, carbon analyzer and XRD


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WEB ACCESSWEB ACCESSWEB ACCESSWEB ACCESS

• Expedition Database (ED)

• Oracle Database developed in the 1990’s and available online 1998

• 1216 expeditions (cruises and coastal field work)• Unique number 2010804 0001• 53436 stations (core, grab, dredge, camera, sediment transport

tools, geotechnical tool and other) • 95773 subsample entries• 21,319,224 navigation points• 1537 radiocarbon dates• 32426 grain size records and 904763 sed_points • 19627 underwater photographs


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•Physical Archives Database (PAD)

• Oracle Database available online 2001

• inventory management system

• geophysical data (seismic, multibeam, bathymetry, gravity, and magnetics) - includes logbooks, magnetic/reel-to-reel/digital tapes, paper records and digital data sets

• geological samples (core sections only)

• micropaleontology slides


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• Access to the Expedition Database by external (non-GSC) users has been temporarily disabled because the search interfaces do not comply with the Official Languages Act, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and CLF (Common Look and Feel) regulations

• Currently upgrading the web interface to meet the new Treasury Board Standard on Web Accessibility


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Online Visualization ToolsOnline Visualization ToolsOnline Visualization ToolsOnline Visualization Tools

• To date we have scanned 12,173 paper seismic records as jpeg 2000

• Tools developed in house to view jpeg 2000 images online – ED and PAD key to making them available

• Radiocarbon age date information, seabed photos, grain size analysis, scanned seismic and sidescan sections collections are available online for download using ftp or http protocols. The base-level URL for the data collections can be found at

• http://geogratis.ca/download/geology/MarineGeoscienceData

• These data holdings may be perused through the use of a composite KML file that can be loaded in Google Earth or other compatible viewers

• (http://geogratis.ca/download/geology/MarineGeoscienceData/Seismic_Reflection_Scanned/NRCan%20Marine%20Data%20Holdings.kmz)

http://geogratis.ca/download/geology/MarineGeoscienceData

http://geogratis.ca/download/geology/MarineGeoscienceData/Seismic_Reflection_Scanned/NRCan%20Marine%20Data%20Holdings.kmz

http://geogratis.ca/download/geology/MarineGeoscienceData/Seismic_Reflection_Scanned/NRCan%20Marine%20Data%20Holdings.kmz


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THANK YOU

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