A cooperative effort between nineteen oceanographic institutions and government agencies that maintain marine sample repositories to provide information on the contents of their collections to help researchers locate marine sediment and rock material for further analysis," states the homepage of this site provided by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Geophysical Data Center (reviewed in the January 17, 1997 Scout Report for Science & Engineering). Visitors to the site can access the search engine to look for specific samples in the database. Basic search fields include map coordinates, repository name, ship's name, date, water depth, and sampling device. Extended search fields such as sediment type and geologic age are also available. Pages giving contact information for participating institutions, recent updates, and data parameters are provided. The Curators' Database should be useful to graduate students and professionals putting together a project and looking for sample availability.