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Re: paleonet FW: SESAR: Solid Earth Sample Registry



Just a note of possible interest,coincidentally
'sesar' in malay means 'fault' in the geological sense
cheers
meor
--- "Lane, Harold" <hlane@nsf.gov> wrote:

>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kerstin Lehnert
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> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 6:07 PM
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> Cc: Sri Vinayagamoorthy; Steven L Goldstein;
> Christopher Lenhardt; Dave Epp;
> Richard Lane
> Subject: SESAR: Solid Earth Sample Registry
> 
> 
> 
> SESAR, the Solid Earth Sample Registry, is an
> NSF-funded project started
> Sept 1, 2004, as a response to the urgent need for
> unique sample identifiers
> in the development of a Geoscience
> Cyberinfrastructure. 
> 
> 
> SESAR is building a web-based digital registry for
> solid earth samples that
> will provide for the first time a way to uniquely
> name and identify samples
> on a global scale by means of the International Geo
> Sample Number IGSN.
> Establishing SESAR and the IGSN will have a
> wide-ranging impact on sample
> and data management, especially with respect to
> sample sharing and data
> integration, addressing a basic requirement for
> interoperability among
> information systems for sample-based data. 
> 
> 
> To find out more about SESAR, visit 
> 
> 
> www.geosamples.org 
> 
> 
> 
> or come to one of the following SESAR presentations
> at the upcoming AGU Fall
> Meeting in San Francisco: 
> 
> 
> -       Session SF32A, Wednesday, Dec 15, 2004,
> 12:00pm, Moscone West, Room
> 3010: “SESAR: Addressing the need for unique sample
> identification in the
> Solid Earth Sciences” (Lehnert, K., Goldstein, S.L.,
> Lenhardt, W.C.,
> Vinayagamoorthy, S.) 
> 
> 
> -       Town Hall Meeting “The MARGINS Database: Its
> Part in the Marine
> Geosciences Data Management System and Benefits of
> Integrated Data Access
> and Visualization for Researchers and Educators”,
> Thursday, Dec 16, 6:30pm,
> Moscone West, Room 3006 
> 
> 
> -       Tuesday, Dec 15, to Friday, Dec 17, all day
> at the EarthChem booth
> in the exhibit hall (booth #231 within the "NSF
> Community", next to CHRONOS
> and NSF-OPP). 
> 
> 
> 
> Please forward this message to any colleagues who
> might be interested in
> this project, and feel free to contact any of us if
> you have further
> questions and comments. We welcome your input. You
> can also register as a
> user at the SESAR web site (www.geosamples.org) to
> receive regular updates
> on the project. 
> 
> 
> 
> With best wishes for a peaceful Holiday Season, 
> 
> The SESAR Team 
> 
> 
> Kerstin Lehnert (lehnert@ldeo.columbia.edu) 
> 
> Steve Goldstein (steveg@ldeo.columbia.edu) 
> 
> Christopher Lenhardt (clenhardt@ciesin.columbia.edu)
> 
> 
> Sri Vinayagamoorthy (sri@ciesin.columbia.edu) 
> 
> 
> 
> Dr. Kerstin Lehnert 
> 
> Coordinator for Research Administration 
> 
> Office of the Director 
> 
> Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia
> University 
> 
> 61 Route 9W 
> 
> Palisades, NY 10964 
> 
> USA 
> 
> 
> Phone: 845-365-8506 
> 
> Fax: 845-365-8162
> 
> 


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