paleonet Chronos system

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  SEPM geobiologists, stratigraphers, paleoenvironmentalists, and depositional
modelers have expertise, data, and applications that potentially will be
served by a database system outlined in November 2001, at the University of
Massachusetts.  An integrated chronostratigraphic database system,
provisionally called Chronos, is envisioned for future Earth Science
studies.  The Chronos system would provide efficiency of data gathering and
of metadata synergy.  Diverse research and applied studies include time
scale construction, correlation of reservoir and source rock strata,
paleoenvironmental analysis, paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, and
paleotectonics.  For teachers, students and every person Chronos would
provide a readily accessible source of information on general interest
topics, such as evolution, human origins, and history of catastrophic
events, as well as facilitate studies of modern issues, such as climate
change and biodiversity.  Thirty quantitative stratigraphers and database
specialists from diverse research teams met November, 2001 in a three-day
workshop to discuss methods and strategies to achieve these goals as guests
of the University of Massachusetts Geoscience Department, sponsored by the
University of Purdue Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and
funded by NSF.  How SEPM members can contribute to and benefit from Chronos
will be discussed at the SEPM Quantitative Stratigraphy Research Group
meeting 10 March at the AAPG/SEPM Annual Meeting in Houston. See the SEPM
website for meeting location