GSA Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, USA - 2017

Session No. 206
Tuesday, 24 October 2017: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room 3B (Washington State Convention Center)

T147. What Can You Do with Geoinformatics?

GSA Geoinformatics Division; Geoscience Information Society; American Geosciences Institute; American Geophysical Union; GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division; GSA Geoscience Education Division; Association of American State Geologists; GSA Karst Division
Denise J. Hills, Chris Badurek, Christopher Keane and Shelley Stall, Advocates
 
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM
A TORTUOUS CAREER PATH THROUGH EARTH SCIENCE INFORMATICS, OR HOW DID I END UP WITH THE PERFECT JOB?
POWERS, Lindsay, USGS, Data Preservation, Box 25046, MS 975, Denver, CO 80225, lpowers@usgs.gov
8:20 AM
CAN GEOINFORMATICS CATALYZE IMPROVED GENDER AND ETHNIC/RACIAL DIVERSITY IN GEOSCIENCE AND COMPUTER SCIENCE? (Invited Presentation)
HOULTON, Heather R. and KEANE, Christopher M., American Geosciences Institute, 4220 King Street, Alexandria, VA 22302, hrh@agiweb.org
8:35 AM
GEOINFORMATICS CURRICULA AND CAREERS IN THE CONTEXT OF 21ST CENTURY DATA SCIENCE
FOX, Peter, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciemce, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 Eighth Street, Troy, NY 12180, pfox@cs.rpi.edu
8:50 AM
GEOINFORMATICS DOES THE DATA LIFECYCLE
BISHOP, Bradley Wade, University of Tennessee, School of Information Sciences, 1345 Circle Park Dr, Communications Bldg 443, Knoxville, TN 37996-0332, wade.bishop@utk.edu
9:05 AM
DOING GEOINFORMATICS WITH A WEB OF DATA
MA, Xiaogang, Department of Computer Science, University of Idaho, 785 Perimeter Dr., MS 1010, Moscow, ID 83844-1010, max@uidaho.edu
9:20 AM
APPLYING TEXT AND DATA MINING TO GEOLOGICAL ARTICLES: TOWARDS COGNITIVE COMPUTING ASSISTANTS
CLEVERLEY, Paul Hugh, Information Management, Robert Gordon University, 12 Nelson Close, Wallingford, OX10 0LG, United Kingdom, p.h.cleverley@rgu.ac.uk
9:35 AM
BEST PRACTICES FOR AUTHORS, DATA REPOSITORIES, EDITORS, AND PUBLISHERS TO ENABLE GEOINFORMATICS USING THE SCHOLARLY LITERATURE AND TO EMPOWER PUBLISHED DATA
HANSON, Brooks and STALL, Shelley, American Geophysical Union, 2000 Florida Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20009, bhanson@agu.org
 
9:50 AM
Break
10:05 AM
A BETTER CLOCK, A CLEARER PAST, A MORE PRECISE FUTURE: USING GEOINFORMATICS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE EARTH SYSTEM (Invited Presentation)
GORING, Simon, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, 550 N Park St, Madison, WI 53706, goring@wisc.edu
10:20 AM
SUPPORTING GEOINFORMATICS WITH SITE-BASED DATA CURATION: COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INFORMATION FRAMEWORK
THOMER, Andrea K., School of Information, University of Michigan, 105 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 41804 and PALMER, Carole L., Information School, University of Washington, Mary Gates Hall, Ste. 370, Seattle, WA 98195, athomer@umich.edu
10:35 AM
BUILD APPS!
LOEFFLER, Shane1, MYRBO, Amy2, MCEWAN, Reed3, AI, Sijia1 and MORRISON, Alexander4, (1)LacCore/CSDCO, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, (2)LacCore/CSDCO, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, 500 Pillsbury Dr. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, (3)Institute for Health Informatics & Academic Health Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, (4)LacCore/CSDCO, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55104, loeff081@d.umn.edu
10:50 AM
SPOTS IN SPOTS FOR GIS: INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN ARCGIS, QGIS AND STRABOSPOT (UPDATE)
BUNSE, Emily Grace1, WALKER, Douglas2, JORDAN-KOENIG, Kristen3, ASH, Jason1 and TIKOFF, Basil4, (1)Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, (2)Department of Geology, The University of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd., Lindley Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045, (3)Kansas Geological Survey- DASC, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, (4)Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, egbunse@gmail.com
11:05 AM
THE GEOSCIENTIST’S INSIGHT: THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF GEOLOGIC KNOWLEDGE AND GEOINFORMATICS IN TODAY’S MARKETPLACE (Invited Presentation)
LEVINE, Norman, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, College of Charleston, 202 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC 29424, levinen@cofc.edu
 
11:20 AM
Poster Lightning Talks
 
11:35 AM
Discussion
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