<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Heather, we store all our rocks and minerals data in Specify, along with our invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany specimens. Our fossil data is sent to GBIF, and our other geology data is sent to SESAR <a href="https://www.geosamples.org/">https://www.geosamples.org/</a></div><div>All of our specimens can also be searched together via our Specify web portal. It's not a perfectly streamlined workflow, and many of our geology samples (including sand) are not yet databased, but it does work well enough for us to keep moving forward. ---Liath</div><div><br></div></div><div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2">Liath Appleton<br></font></div><div><font size="2">Collections Manager</font></div><div><font size="2">Non-Vertebrate Paleontology Lab</font></div><div><font size="2">University of Texas at Austin</font></div><div><div>Bldg PRC122 - campus mail code R8500<br>10100 Burnet Road</div><div>Austin, TX 78758</div></div><div><br></div><div><font size="2">SPNHC Connection Editor (<span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:newsletter@spnhc.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">newsletter@spnhc.org</a>)</span></font></div><div><font size="2">SPNHC Web Manager (<a href="mailto:webmaster@spnhc.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">webmaster@spnhc.org</a>)</font></div><div><a href="http://www.spnhc.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><font size="2">www.spnhc.org</font></a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM James and Judy Bryant <<a href="mailto:jbandjb@live.com">jbandjb@live.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Are there perhaps publications linked to this collection? Is there a name of a primary researcher connected to the samples?</div>
<div>Such collections often have enormous research and interpretation potential, yet it's hard to protect them from de-accession or discard.</div>
<div>I faced a predicament regarding a collection made from many places, including the dry valleys of Antarctica. As I recall out of 50 or so samples, in years prior most were discarded so that the jars could be reused. The only survivor was a jar
of multicolored sand from the Valley of 10 Thousand Smokes! When researches wanting samples that might be comparable to Martian soils contacted me, all I had for them was a sad story.</div>
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<div>On Nov 5, 2025, at 11:10 AM, Utrup, Jessica <<a href="mailto:jessica.bazeley@yale.edu" target="_blank">jessica.bazeley@yale.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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GRSciColl might be a good spot to get this started (<a href="https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/</a>). You can enter general information about
the collection and contact information. It’s a low lift to make the collection discoverable.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Wednesday, November 5, 2025 12:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span> </span>Heather Ouellette <<a href="mailto:houellette@fau.edu" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">houellette@fau.edu</a>>;<span> </span><a href="mailto:nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span> </span>Re: [Nhcoll-l] Sand collection database?<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">I’d be interested to see what folks say, as we have just such a collection here at the Academy too. Apparently sand collecting was a thing among the jet set once.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">One use some of the samples have been put to was in a study of rheology (resistance) related to the hairs and spines on terrestrial crustacean legs. Sand of various grain sizes was used to see whether having such things
on their appendages enabled crabs to run faster uphill. I never saw the results, though…<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span>Nhcoll-l <<a href="mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a>><span> </span><b>On
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<b>Subject:</b><span> </span>[Nhcoll-l] Sand collection database?<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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Recently I found that there is a collection of sand samples at Harbor Branch. There are almost 1,000 samples, from beaches on all 7 continents. All were collected from the 1960s through mid 1990s, by multiple individuals, and collated by Orville Brim. Most
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This is a unique collection, but I’m not sure how to share this collection and its data with the scientific community. Are there online geology databases like Symbiota/GBIF? Would this data be of use or interest to anyone?<span> </span><u></u><u></u></div>
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