Location

Kochi Core Center (KCC) is located in Monobe campus of the Kochi University, Nankoku City, Kochi Prefecture.

Location

Management System

Kochi Core Center is a research facility jointly managed by the Kochi University and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. The two institutions are promoting research with common goals, and jointly managing the facilities and research apparatus.

This facility has the leading-edge instruments for scientific analyses and reefers for storing core samples. The core samples can be used for basic to applied research by any researchers in the world.

We make best use of these facilities and equipment, and aim at becoming a core base for research in drilling science through promotion of research in earth system science and human resource development of young researchers.

Management System

History

April, 2003 Establishment of the Center for Advanced Marine Core Research, Kochi University
April, 2004 Beginning of joint management with Independent Administrative Institution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
October, 2005 Establishment of Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, JAMSTEC
June, 2006 Adoption of a common name (nickname), "Kochi Core Center, KU/JAMSTEC"
September, 2007 Beginning of full-scale activities as core curation facility, one of the world's three major core repositories in Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)
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