2010 GSA Denver Annual Meeting (31 October –3 November 2010)
Session No. 241 Wednesday, 3 November 2010
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Colorado Convention Center: Room 603

T113. Geological and Paleobiological Collections: Best Practices for Preservation, Access, and Use in a Changing World I (Paleontological Society; Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections; Mineralogical Society of America; GSA Geoinformatics Division)

Ann Molineux, Tim White and Christopher Michael Holl, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
241-18:00 AM EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AND NOVEL USES OF COLLECTIONS: CHALLENGES IN A CHANGING WORLD: WHITE, Russell D., Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, tim.white@yale.edu
241-28:15 AM AGENTS OF DETERIORATION IN GEOLOGIC COLLECTIONS: DEMOUTHE, Jean F., California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118, jdemouthe@calacademy.org
241-38:30 AM WORKING TOWARDS STANDARDIZATION: A SURVEY OF CURATION PROCEDURES IN INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY COLLECTIONS: CUNDIFF, Jessica D., Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, jcundiff@oeb.harvard.edu
241-48:45 AM A NEW TAKE ON ADOPTING ORPHANED COLLECTIONS: NAGEL-MYERS, Judith, Paleontological Research Institution, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850, jn226@cornell.edu, DIETL, Gregory, Paleontological Research Institution, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, and ALLMON, Warren, Paleontological Rsch Institution, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850
241-59:00 AM TO KEEP OR NOT TO KEEP: THAT IS THE QUESTION.: ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES AND REWARDS OF GEOSCIENCE DATA PRESERVATION, UT BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY RESEARCH CENTERS: BLAKENEY DEJARNETT, Beverly, Bureau of Economic Geology Houston Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 11611 W. Little York Road, Houston, TX 77041, bev.dejarnett@beg.utexas.edu
241-69:15 AM HOW TO EFFICIENTLY SURVEY A LARGE MUSEUM COLLECTION: MAYER, Paul, Geology Department, Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496, pmayer@fieldmuseum.org
241-79:30 AM PALEOBOTANICAL COLLECTIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS: COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE: SERBET, Rudolph, TAYLOR, Edith L., BERGENE, Julie, and TAYLOR, Thomas N., Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Ave, Haworth Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045-7534, etaylor@ku.edu
241-89:45 AM INVENTORY AND UPDATING THE WHITE RIVER GROUP COLLECTIONS FOR THE MOVE TO THE NEW PALEONTOLOGICAL REPOSITORY AT THE MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY, SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY: WELSH, Ed1, KORF, Jason J.1, CARR, Jason1, HU, Huai-Pin1, SCHURMANN, Bill2, and SHELTON, Sally2, (1) Geology and Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 E. Saint Joseph St, Rapid City, SD 57701, edtwelsh@hotmail.com, (2) Museum of Geology and Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St. Joseph St, Rapid City, SD 57701
241-910:00 AM BOTTLENECKS TO THE EFFICIENT DIGITAL CAPTURE OF INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS: MACKLIN, James A., Harvard University Herbaria, Harvard University, 22 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 01238, jmacklin@oeb.harvard.edu and MORRIS, Paul J., Harvard University Herbaria and the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 22 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 01451
241-1010:15 AM DIGITIZATION STRATEGIES, COLLECTIONS-USE SURVEYS, AND iDAISY: NEW E-COLLECTIONS-BASED INITIATIVES AT THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: MACLEOD, N., Palaeontology Department, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD United Kingdom, N.MacLeod@nhm.ac.uk
241-1110:30 AM PLANNING, PREPARING AND PRIORITIZING PALEONTOLOGY COLLECTIONS FOR DIGITIZATION USING CURATION LEVELS: ADRAIN, Tiffany, Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa, 121 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, tiffany-adrain@uiowa.edu and THIES, Meagan, E., Museum Studies Certificate Program, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, 114 Macbride Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242
241-1210:45 AM REVIEWING THE SYMBIOSIS OF RESEARCH AND COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT AT THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, LONDON: SMITH, David A., Mineralogy Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD United Kingdom, d.a.smith@nhm.ac.uk
241-1311:00 AM CONTROLLING DIGITAL DIVERSIFICATION: USING SPECIFY TO REPLACE MULTIPLE DATABASES WITH A SINGLE DATA STRUCTURE, IMPROVE THE QUALITY AND INTEROPERABILITY OF REPOSITORY ARCHIVAL DATASETS: MOLINEUX, Ann and MYERS, Alexandra, Non-vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, Texas Natural Science Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758, annm@austin.utexas.edu
241-1411:15 AM THE ICHNOLOGY DATABASE. FACILITATING RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL ACCESS WITH AN INTEGRATED DATABASE: GOLDSTEIN, Donald H.1, MCKINNEY, Michael L.2, PACAUD, Jean-Michel3, and MERLE, Didier3, (1) Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, 1412 Circle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996, dgoldste@utk.edu, (2) Earth and Planetary Science, The Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, (3) Invertebrate paleontology, Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, 8 rue Buffon, Paris, 75005, France
241-1511:30 AM COLLECTION MANAGEMENT IN THE NEW MILLENIUM: A DATABASE MODEL FOR CATALOGUING COLLECTIONS AND ACCESSING THEM ON THE INTERNET: HALTERMAN, Don, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Salt Lake Technical Center, 8660 S. Sandy Parkway, Sandy, UT 84070, halterman.donald@dol.gov
241-1611:45 AM PALEOECOLOGICAL AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF MICROFOSSIL SPECIMENS UTILIZING GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS): SCOTT, Laura M.G., Museum of Geology and Paleontology Research Laboratory, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 E. St. Joseph, Rapid City, SD 57701, Laura.Gierach@mines.sdsmt.edu

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