Pre-GSA workshop

Connecting emerging lab data management capabilities to community geochemistry systems

October 6-7, 2022

Denver, Colorado

  • Thursday and Friday prior to GSA Connects 2022
  • Room 206 of the Denver Convention Center

Workshop schedule

This schedule is a general guide to structure the workshop. We seek to give participants adequate time to showcase their work, but talks will be informal and need not fill their allotted time.

Talks will be broadcast on Zoom (link to Zoom room). We will try to keep remote participants abreast of discussions happening in the room.

Remote and in-person participants can also post in questions and comments in the workshop Slack channel.

Contact Daven Quinn with any questions or changes you'd like to see.

Thursday, October 6
Time Presenter Affiliation Topic
9:00 am Gathering and setup
9:10 am Daven Quinn University of Wisconsin-Madison Introduction and workshop overview
Sparrow's role in labs

Geochemistry databases I
9:40 am Leah Morgan U.S. Geological Survey USGS GEOCHRON: A new database of USGS geochronologic data
10:00 am Lucia Profeta Columbia University EarthChem and OneGeochemistry
10:20 am Noah McLean University of Kansas Geochron.org and community-level data curation
Discussion: community-level data compilations - how and why

Lab data pipelines
11:00 am George Gehrels Arizona Laserchron Center The need for data-management software in labs
11:20 am Alexander Prent Curtin University The AuScope Geochemistry Network
11:40 am Daven Quinn Recap: Sparrow's role in labs
12:00 pm

Lunch

Automated connections
1:30 pm Daven Quinn Conceptual overview:
  • Schemas for data storage and interchange
  • Automated data collection
  • The Weaver overlay for geochemical data interchange
Discussion

Systems and pipelines for geochronology labs
2:10 pm Jake Ross New Mexico Bureau of Geology Sparrow and PyChron at NMBG
2:30 pm Cameron Mercer U.S. Geological Survey
Selenocene and geochemistry data pipelines
Discussion

Future needs and planning I
3:00 pm Daven Quinn Project retrospective: what went well and what didn't
3:20 pm Discussion
3:30 pm

Breakout groups: Planning the next stage of geochemistry/geochronology–geoinformatics collaborations

Software and technical needs

New organizational and funding structures

Breakout topics and membership are not fixed. We should be open to exploring in new directions!

4:30 pm Adjourn!

Friday, October 7

Geochemistry databases II
9:00 am Marthe Klöcking University of Göttingen The DIGIS project for GEOROC 2.0
9:20 am Nicholas Jarboe Oregon State University MagIC, FIESTA, and the KArAr data repository
9:40 am Joe Tulenko Berkeley Geochronology Center The evolution of the ICE-D cosmogenic nuclides database
10:00 am Kelly Thomson U.S. Geological Survey Building the USGS geochronology database
Discussion + Break
10:40 am Akshay Mehra Dartmouth College The Sedimentary Geochemistry Project
11:00 am Tao Wen Syracuse University The Shale Network and soil profile chemistry databases
11:20 am Snir Attia New Mexico Bureau of Geology A concept for a New Mexico detrital zircon database
Discussion + begin demos if time allows
12:00 pm

Lunch
1:30 pm Daven Quinn Demonstration:
  • Getting data into Sparrow
  • Sparrow's relational database

Systems and pipelines for in-situ geochemistry labs
2:00 pm Ben Linzmeier University of Southern Alabama Sparrow at WiscSIMS
2:20 pm Stephen Kuehn Concord University Sparrow for EPMA and tephrachronology
2:40 pm Khalil Droubi UW–Madison (former)
Building Python-based analytical software for EPMA
Discussion

Future needs and planning II
3:10 pm Brad Singer University of Wisconsin–Madison WiscAr lab progress
Carrying this work forward
3:30 pm

Breakout groups: building a geochemical data ecosystem

The needs and role of labs

Technical standards and data integrations

Training and workforce development

Breakout groups topics and membership are not fixed. New directions might suggest themselves!

4:30 pm Adjourn!