Sediment Geochemistry Workshop

Linking Information Systems in Marine and Terrestrial Geosciences:
Sediment Geochemistry Workshop

Agenda

June 3 – 4, 2004

To be held at
Joint Oceanographic Institutions JOI
1201 New York Ave, NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005

supported by the National Science Foundation

June 2, 2004


06:30 pm – 07:30 pm	Icebreaker Open bar (wine & beer) Lobby, Four Point Sheraton 1201 K Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20005

June 3, 2004


08:30 am – 08:45 am	Welcome (Organizers, NSF)

08:45 am – 09:05 am	Lee Allison: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Geoinformatics: Life, the Universe, and Everything

09:05 am – 09:25 am	Kerstin Lehnert: Data Management in Rock Geochemistry

09:25 am – 10:25 am	Large Integrative Projects (15 min presentations by PIs, 5 min discussion)
	Doug Fils: CHRONOS IT Structure and Status
	Rick Carlson: ISES-CI: Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences
	Suzanne Carbotte: An integrated data management system for the Margins program

10:25 am – 10:45 am	Break

10:45 am – 12:40 pm	Information Systems for Sediment Data (15 min presentations by PIs, 5 min discussion)
	Bruce Wardlaw: TBA (PaleoStrat)
	Rakesh Mithal: Overview of the Janus Database
	Rick Murray: Proposed IODP Data Management Goals
	Kyoma Takahashi: J-CORES, CHIKYU shipboard science database system
	Chris Jenkins: An Information Processing Style of Database for Coastal-Marine Substrates on Global Scales - dbSEABED
	Carla Moore: Marine Geology Data Systems at NGDC and the collocated World Data Center for Marine Geology and Geophysics, Boulder

12:40 pm – 01:30 pm	Lunch

01:30 pm – 04:30 pm	Breakout sessions Breakout session leaders in parentheses

1. What are the needs of the Paleoclimate community? – Data types, metadata, access, QC, etc. (Curry, Payton)

2. What are the needs of the Global Fluxes community? – Data types, metadata, access, QC, etc. (Morris, Carlson)

3. What are the requirements, possibilities, & challenges for integration of marine and terrestrial data systems? (Helly, Lenhardt)

04:30 pm – 06:00 pm	Plenary session
	Presentation of breakout session results, discussion

June 4, 2004


08:00 am – 10:15 am	Interoperability of Data Systems, and Integration with Tools for Analysis and Visualization (15 min presentations, 5 min discussion)
	Chaitan Baru: Data Integration in GEON (Geosciences Network)
	John Helly: Interoperability in Scientific Data Systems
	Ken Keiser: ESML: Interchange Technology for Data and Tool Interoperability
	Ted Haberman: Geospatial Databases: A Foundation for Data Access and Mapping
	Jason Leigh: Advanced Technologies for Geoscience Visualization and Collaboration

10:15 am – 10:45 am	Break

10:45 am – 12:30 pm	Breakout Sessions

1. Maps & Tools for Visualization (Leigh, Habermann)

2. Data/metadata standards and data policies (Goldstein, Ito)

3. Practical steps for implementing an integrated system for sediment data (Lehnert, Allison)

12:30 pm – 01:00 pm	Lunch

01:00 pm – 03:00 pm	Plenary
	Presentation of Breakout session results
	Where do we go from here?

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