GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA - 2016

Session No. 280
Wednesday, 28 September 2016: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room 205 (Colorado Convention Center)

T47. Big Data in the Geosciences: In Memory of M. Lee Allison

GSA Geoinformatics Division
M. Lee Allison and Leslie Hsu, Advocates
 
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:15 AM
TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN THE GEOSCIENCES AND BEYOND REQUIRES ACCESS TO ALL DATA BOTH ‘BIG’ AND ‘SMALL’ (Invited Presentation)
WYBORN, Lesley A.I. and EVANS, Benjamin J.K., National Computational Infrastructure, Australian National University, 56 Mills Road, Acton, 2600, Australia, lesley.wyborn@anu.edu.au
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8:45 AM
Withdrawn
8:30 AM
EARTHCUBE – MOVING TO AN ENTERPRISE GOVERNANCE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION FOR GEOSCIENCE CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
ALLISON, M. Lee, State Geologist & Director, Arizona Geological Survey, 1955 E. 6th St, PO Box 210184, Tucson, AZ 85721, KEANE, Christopher, American Geosciences Institute, 4220 King St, Alexandria, VA 22302 and ROBINSON, Erin, Foundation for Earth Science, 3980 Broadway, Suite 103-185, Boulder, CO 80304, leeallison@email.arizona.edu
9:00 AM
THE EASY WAY TO COMPUTATIONAL GEODYNAMICS
MORRA, Gabriele, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Department of Physics and School of Geosciences, Lafayette, LA 70504, morra@louisiana.edu
Handouts
  • BigDataTalk.pdf (14.2 MB)
  • 9:15 AM
    STRATEGIES FOR CURATING BIG DATA IN THE HETEROGENEOUS LONG TAIL: EXAMPLES FROM THE USGS SCIENCEBASE REPOSITORY AND SEAD DATA SERVICES
    HSU, Leslie, US Geological Survey, Community for Data Integration (CDI), Denver, CO 80225, IGNIZIO, Drew A., US Geological Survey, Core Science Analytics, Synthesis, and Libraries, Denver, CO 80225 and MYERS, James D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, lhsu@usgs.gov
    Handouts
  • Hsu_2016_GSA_post.pdf (9.8 MB)
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    9:30 AM
    Break
    9:45 AM
    AGILE DATA METHOD APPLICATIONS IN A REAL-WORLD INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH CONTEXT
    PELAEZ, Carlos and PELAEZ, Jess, Blueprint Earth, 340 S Lemon Ave #7879, Walnut, CA 91789, carlos@blueprintearth.org
    10:00 AM
    BLINDED BY THE LIGHT: A CORE COLLECTION'S JOURNEY TO BETTER DISCOVERABILITY (Invited Presentation)
    HILLS, Denise J., Energy Investigations, Geological Survey of Alabama, P.O. Box 869999, Tuscaloosa, AL 35486-6999 and MCINTYRE-REDDEN, Marcella R., Energy Investigations Program, Geological Survey of Alabama, P.O. Box 869999, Tuscaloosa, AL 35486-6999, dhills@gsa.state.al.us
    Handouts
  • HillsRedden_GSA_2016_wide.pptx (12.0 MB)
  • 10:15 AM
    THE USE OF MACHINE LEARNING FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF STREAM DISCHARGE – GAGE HEIGHT RATING CURVES
    ALLEN, Sarah M., TULLEY, Skyler, MURDOCK, Thomas and EMERMAN, Steven H., Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University, 800 West University Parkway, Orem, UT 84058, StevenE@uvu.edu
    10:30 AM
    ONLINE VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS OF LARGE ROCK COLLECTIONS WITH SUAVE
    ZASLAVSKY, Ilya, LI, Side, VALENTINE, David and WHITENACK, Thomas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Univ of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505, zaslavsk@sdsc.edu
     
    10:45 AM
    Break
    11:00 AM
    EMAG2-VERSION3 - A NEW GLOBAL COMPILATION OF LITHOSPHERIC MAGNETIC ANOMALIES
    MEYER, Brian, SALTUS, Richard W. and CHULLIAT, Arnaud, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80035, Brian.Meyer@noaa.gov
    11:15 AM
    A NOVEL APPROACH TO DATA PRIORITIZATION IN PALEONTOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
    OLENIACZ, Brittney A., Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66044, oleniacz@ku.edu
    11:30 AM
    DEEP TIME DATA INFRASTRUCTURE: INTEGRATING OUR CURRENT GEOLOGIC AND BIOLOGIC DATABASES
    KOLANKOWSKI, Sophia1, FOX, Peter2, MA, Xiaogang2 and ZEDNIK, Stephan1, (1)Earth and Environmental Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 Eighth Street, Troy, NY 12180, (2)Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 Eighth Street, Troy, NY 12180, kolans@rpi.edu
    11:45 AM
    DATA-DRIVEN HYPOTHESES TO ADDRESS CORAL DISEASE AND REEF HEALTH
    JOHNSON, Claudia C.1, DALKILIC, Mehmet M.2, JENNE, Mark2 and BEEKER, Charles D.3, (1)Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, 1001 E. Tenth St., Bloomington, IN 47405-1405, (2)Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, (3)Kinesiology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, claudia@indiana.edu
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