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Jere - you weren't there at the conf. call. I recounted how I met with Cinzia and Walt at that recent Dallas sedimentology forum to scope out where our "WISTS" (web integrated time scale) project might fit in. I discovered that (a) NSF wants to put its money into "Earth/Time", which is all about improving geochronometry in American labs -- which is fine as far as it goes -- and that (b) Cinzia's concept for Chronos is simply to take the time values established for GSSP's by the various subcommittees of the ICS. I also heard from some well informed people that Chronos has been mostly hype, and is pretty much reduced to angling for funds as "umbrella" to such going projects as Tapestry and Davidof's chronostrat database up in Oregon. I'm going to give WISTS one more try. The interface is designed to be an international arena for proposing and testing chronostratigraphic correlation, to put the dated rocks everywhere into relationship with the various calibrated models (isotope, biostrat, magnetostrat) and the models into relationship with each other and the formal time scale. I think it is the next step beyond the GSSP, and to sell it to the world community and particularly the ICS I'm back to the Penrose idea. Not the one on systematics that we thought you and Kaminski might put together, but the other one on chronostratigraphy. Anyway, welcome back, hope you used your sunblock. John >>*********************** >>ANNOUNCEMENT: Topical session on Geoinformatics at GSA in Denver, Nov >>7-10, 2004 >> >>Topical session (#112) convened by Cinzia Cervato (Iowa State >>University - CHRONOS) and Walt Snyder (National Science Foundation) >>at the Annual GSA meeting in Denver, Nov 7-10, 2004. The title of the >>session is: Geologic Time and CHRONOS: Databases, Tools, Outreach, >>Education, and the Geoinformatics Revolution. The session is >>sponsored by the Geoscience Information Society, the Paleontological >>Society, and CHRONOS. >> >>The goals of the session are to show what can be done with a tool >>(such as CHRONOS and other Geoinformatics projects) that allows >>higher resolution in space and time, to highlight the importance of >>open access to a global data set, and give examples of what kind of >>science and education projects can be done with such a system. >> >>The abstract submission deadline is July 13. The abstract submission >>form is already on line >>http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2004/Techprog.htm >> >> >> >>Brian T. Huber >>Department of Paleobiology, MRC NHB-121 >>PO Box 37012 >>Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History >>10th and Constitution Ave., NW >>Washington, DC 20013-7012 >> >>ph.: 202-786-2658 >>fax: 202-786-2832 >>http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/foram/index.html > >
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