T84 Geologic Time and CHRONOS: Databases, Tools, Outreach, Education, and the Geoinformatics Revolution I

Monday, 8 November 2004
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  PALEOZOIC-PRECAMBRIAN TIME SCALE 2004
  Alan G. Smith, Univ of Cambridge, Cambridge, N/A and James G. Ogg, Purdue Univ, West Lafayette, IN
  77199 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:15 AM
  CENOZOIC-MESOZOIC TIME SCALE 2004
  James G. Ogg, Purdue Univ, West Lafayette, IN
  77415 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:30 AM
  APPLYING THE CHRONOS MODEL TO DEEP-SEA SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES AND DRILLING
  William B.F. Ryan, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia Univ, Palisades, NY and William F. Haxby, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia Univ, Palisades, NY and Samuel C. Schon, Columbia Univ, New York, NY and Brianna M. Mulhlenkamp, The Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Suzanne M. Carbotte, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia Univ, Palisades, NY
  77414 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:50 AM
  LARGE DATA BASES IN PALEONTOLOGY
  Michael J. Benton, Univ of Bristol, Bristol, N/A
  75024 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:10 AM
  PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS OF RADIOMETRIC DATING
  Kenneth J. Hsu, Nanjing Univ, Nanjing, N/A
  75869 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:30 AM
  THE PROMISE OF CHRONOS
  Margaret Leinen, National Sci Foundation, Arlington, VA
  74234 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:50 AM
  GEOINFORMATICS - COMMUNITY CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE EARTH SCIENCES
  Walter S. Snyder, National Sci Foundation, Arlington, VA
  76972 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:05 AM
  CHRONOS - A TIME-CALIBRATED NETWORK OF FEDERATED DATABASES AND TOOLS FOR SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY
  Cinzia Cervato, Iowa State Univ Science & Technology Dep. Geol & Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA
  75672 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:20 AM
  EARTHTIME: A COMMUNITY-BASED EFFORT TOWARDS HIGH-PRECISION CALIBRATION OF EARTH HISTORY
  S.A. Bowring, MIT, Cambridge, MA and Doug Erwin, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, N/A and Paul Renne, Berkeley, CA
  80769 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:35 AM
  A COMMUNITY APPROACH TO DATA INTEGRATION: BUILDING MEANINGFUL LINKS ACROSS DIVERSE DATASETS
  Eric Christopher Kansa, The Alexandria Archive Institute and Stanford Univ, San Francisco, CA
  78528 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:50 AM
  A FORMAL MODEL FOR THE GEOLOGICAL TIMESCALE AND GSSP
  Simon J.D. Cox, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, Bentley, WA, N/A and Stephen M. Richard, Arizona Geol Survey, Tucson, AZ
  78636 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:05 AM
  CHRONOS-GEOCHEMICAL CYCLES: PAINTING EARTH SYSTEM HISTORY WITH NUMBERS
  Ethan L. Grossman, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX and John McArthur, Univ College London, London, N/A
  76924 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:20 AM
  SESAR: AN ONLINE SOLID EARTH SAMPLE REGISTRY FOR UNIQUE SAMPLE IDENTIFICATION
  Kerstin Annette Lehnert, Columbia University, Palisades, NY and Steven L. Goldstein, Columbia Univ, Palisades, NY and W. Christopher Lenhardt, Columbia Univ, Palisades, NY and Sri Vinayagamoorthy, Columbia Univ, Palisades, NY
  80523 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:35 AM
  COMPUTER-ASSISTED SEQUENCING OF LARGE NUMBERS OF EVENTS FROM THE GEOLOGIC RECORD – ESCAPING THE CONSTRAINTS ON RESOLVING POWER IMPOSED BY TRADITIONAL BIOZONES
  Peter M. Sadler, Univ of California, Riverside, CA and Jennifer A. Sabado, Univ of California, Riverside, CA
  77018 (Technical Sessions)