The collections are maintained in a single-story building designed to process and store marine sediments. Most of the core storage area consists of a 500 square meter room kept at 2 degrees Celsius. A separate vault (50 square meters) provides additional space for materials requiring frozen (-23 degrees C) storage. The Facility houses over 20,000 meters of Antarctic and subantarctic marine geological core samples and 3000 meters of rotary cored geological material