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<div><span style="line-height: 20px;">Apologies in advance for the </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">cross posting!</span></div>
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<div><b><span style="line-height: 20px;">Call for Abstracts: GSA Annual Meeting Topical Session </span><span style="line-height: 1.1;">T46. Using Digitized Data in Geological and Paleontological Research</span></b></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 20px;">Digitization programs in paleontology and geology are producing large amounts of easily accessible data. This session will present developments in the research uses of digitized geoscience
data and recent advances in data-publishing and mobilization, and uses of digitized data for outreach and education.</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 20px;"><b>Submit your abstract today (deadline Aug. 11th)!</b></span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Details:</b></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This session will highlight paleontology and geology research that has utilized publically available digitized data in some way.
The number and size of digital data sets are expanding rapidly in light of recent interest in biological and geological specimen digitization and span a wide variety of data types including digital images of fossil specimens, 3D reconstructions and visualizations
from CT scans, georeferenced fossil localities, occurrence data for fossil collections, literature based occurrences for fossils, core samples, paleoclimate data, seafloor data, etc. Topics to be addressed include an accounting of publicly available digital
datasets; research methods and techniques; strategies for ensuring long-term storage, maintenance, and on-going accessibility of large digital datasets; digital dataset security; advances in technology and software for data analysis and manipulation; strategies
for ensuring and improving data quality; current gaps and deficiencies in publicly available digital datasets and strategies for rectification; research uses of data generated by current ADBC TCN collaboratives; and recent research outcomes from digital datasets.</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We welcome presenters from a variety of specialties in paleontology and geology, as well as graduate students who are currently pursuing research based on digitized data, especially 3D CT data.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>Session sponsors include</b>: iDigBio; Paleontological Society; Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections; GSA Geoinformatics Division; EarthCube C4P; iSamples</span></div>
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<div>Additional meeting information can be found here: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__community.geosociety.org_gsa2015_home&d=AwMFAg&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=2gZ7yhYOR6ZQ7HQUgmDpRlw3_K_rFU0mpOSEHtjIkMU&s=lelGgSyugOeLmUoZboaEb-cPPgi4wGTvpaTQ3uKZTd8&e=">http://community.geosociety.org/gsa2015/home</a></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We hope to see you all at GSA!</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Talia </span></div>
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Talia Karim, PhD<br>
Collection Manager<br>
Invertebrate Paleontology<br>
CU Museum of Natural History<br>
University of Colorado<br>
265 UCB<br>
Boulder, CO 80309-0265<br>
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__fossilinsects.colorado.edu&d=AwMFAg&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=2gZ7yhYOR6ZQ7HQUgmDpRlw3_K_rFU0mpOSEHtjIkMU&s=E2y1lgOQkuktko6pXMpDWmMvaCFuWzd5ScCtnUIipds&e=">http://fossilinsects.colorado.edu</a></div>
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