287 Transforming Earth and Planetary Science Through Data and Data Management: In Honor of MSA Distinguished Public Service Medal Awardee, Kerstin Lehnert

This session honors MSA Distinguished Public Service Medalist Kerstin Lehnert, celebrating her transformative contributions to geoinformatics and data stewardship. We invite studies on data-driven science, FAIR data practices, and large-scale data resources in Earth and planetary science.

Wednesday, 22 October 2025
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
HBGCC, 301C

Participants

• Chair Shaunna Morrison
• Chair Anirudh Prabhu
• Chair Xiaogang Ma

Presentations

• 1:40 PM
  From research data workflows to digital Earth models: continuing efforts to integrate the geoinformatics data ecosystem for the future
  Daven Quinn, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI
  414904 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  GeoCORK: Integrating Existing Databases
  Jarrod Burges, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Piscataway, NJ and Kathryn Metcalf, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
  414333 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  Transforming Access to Planetary Sample Data: Astromat as a Community Resource for Future Science
  Jennifer Mays, Astromat, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY and Peng Ji, Columbia University, Palisades, NY and Lucia Profeta, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC and Griffin Danninger, Columbia University, Palisades, NY and Mollie Celnick, Columbia University, Palisades, NY and Pierre Haenecour, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Annika Johansson, Columbia Univ/Lamont Doherty Observ., Geoscience Bldg, Rm 104, Palisades, NY and Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Palisades, NY
  414292 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  An LLM-based Workflow for Extracting Data and Knowledge from Geoscience Literature
  Xiaogang Ma, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho and Jiyin Zhang, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho and Weilin Chen, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
  414744 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  Automated Mineral Identification by Stoichiometry (MIST): A Tool for Geochemical Dataset Standardization
  Kirsten Siebach, Rice University, Dept. of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX and Eleanor Moreland, Rice University, Dept. of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX and Gelu Costin, Rice University, Dept. of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX and Yueyang Jiang, Rice University, Dept. of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX
  414546 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  Network Analysis of Ion Substitutions across Mineral Paragenetic Modes
  Kate Hendrickson, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ and Anirudh Prabhu, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC and Robert Downs, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Zak Jibrin, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ and Benjamin Zobrist, Independent Researcher, New York, NY and Shaunna Morrison, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
  414596 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  Population-Level Analysis of Small-Volume Continental Basalt Provinces Using Large Geochemical Datasets
  G. Lang Farmer, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Mousumi Roy, Univ New Mexico, Dept Earth & Planetary Science, Albuquerque, NM
  412894 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  Science-Ready Data for Discovery
  Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Palisades, NY
  414642 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  Moving forward with a data infrastructure for the Geosciences over the last 30 years
  J Douglas Walker, University of Kansas, Geology, Lawrence, KS and Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin, madison, wi and Julie Newman, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and Drew Davidson, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Andreas Möller, The University of Kansas Geology, Lawrence, KS
  414354 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  Infrastructure at risk: the replacement cost of scientific databases
  Andrea Thomer, University of Arizona, College of Information Science, Tucson, AZ
  414655 (Technical Sessions)