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style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(42,42,42);padding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.75"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Alexis de Tocqueville, who studied us in the 1830s, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=SNYZBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=%E2%80%9CIndividualism,+at+first,+only+saps+the+virtue+of+public+life%22&source=bl&ots=0-7nby6tpn&sig=ACfU3U38h5a0gmoZPAzlrR15Z6LA96TmHg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiRu-yt_7vrAhVYlXIEHcPkD3EQ6AEwAnoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CIndividualism%2C%20at%20first%2C%20only%20saps%20the%20virtue%20of%20public%20life%22&f=false" title="books.google.com" style="color:rgb(25,85,165);border-bottom:1px solid rgb(213,213,213)" target="_blank">wrote</a> that America’s cult of individualism was perilously close to raw selfishness — the “me first” instinct we often see today.</font></p></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(42,42,42);padding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.75"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">“Individualism, at first, only saps the virtue of public life, but, in the long run, it attacks and destroys all others, and is at length absorbed in downright selfishness” — a strait that he warned “blights the germ of all virtue.”</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 10:24 AM Gary Berg-Cross <<a href="mailto:gbergcross@gmail.com">gbergcross@gmail.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"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:garamond,serif">
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font size="4">There was a general
agreement is yesterday’s Sem Tech session that we would</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font size="4">use this as a
hackathon-style effort and focus this harmonization session on the
mapping of Cryo</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font size="4">terms to EnvO (and
SWEET). We had been matching more things up with SWEET and ticketing
issues.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font size="4">See the
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XmqB5F1SKLZ3y-PIVdQByU3Eho4cHAnUUafko3JNtn0/edit#gid=1512660924" style="color:rgb(0,0,128)" target="_blank">Cryohackathon
spreadsheet</a> for the terminologies.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font size="4">Example:
</font></p>
<table width="102" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<colgroup><col width="102">
</colgroup><tbody><tr>
<td width="102" bgcolor="#e8f0fe" style="background:rgb(232,240,254)"><p style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%">
<font color="#000000" size="4">periglaciation</font></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="102" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><p style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%">
<font color="#000000" size="4">proglacial</font></p>
</td>
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<td width="102" bgcolor="#e8f0fe" style="background:rgb(232,240,254)"><p style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%">
<font color="#000000" size="4">subglacial</font></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="102" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><p style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%">
<font color="#000000" size="4">supraglacial</font></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font size="4"><br>
</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font size="4"><br>
</font></p>
<table width="102" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<colgroup><col width="102">
</colgroup><tbody><tr>
<td width="102" bgcolor="#e8f0fe" style="background:rgb(232,240,254)"><p style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%">
<font color="#000000" size="4">depth hoar</font></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="102" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><p style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%">
<font color="#000000" size="4">frost</font></p>
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<td width="102" bgcolor="#e8f0fe" style="background:rgb(232,240,254)"><p style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%">
<font color="#000000" size="4">granular ice</font></p>
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<td width="102" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><p style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%">
<font color="#000000" size="4">hoar crystal</font></p>
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<td width="102" bgcolor="#e8f0fe" style="background:rgb(232,240,254)"><p style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%">
<font color="#000000" size="4">ice</font></p>
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<td width="102" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><p style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%">
<font color="#000000" size="4">ice crystal</font></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font size="4"><br>
</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font size="4"><br>
</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font size="4"> As context some
notes from our May session on terms.
</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font size="4"><br>
</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font size="4">May 13<sup>th</sup>
Meeting (before our focus on the 5 pager and the ESIP Summer session)</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font size="4">See
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O-3UW1RLp1UNaS2sNWfpIULmgIedB0NCBsYd1MaWWZY/edit#gid=0" style="color:rgb(0,0,128)" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O-3UW1RLp1UNaS2sNWfpIULmgIedB0NCBsYd1MaWWZY/edit#gid=0</a>
</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font size="4"><br>
</font></p>
<p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent">
<font color="#000000" size="4"><span style="background:transparent">…<font face="Arial"><font>..harmonizing
EnvO and SWEET (along the semantic gradient) not solving all of
SWEET’s issues.</font></font></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:138%;background:transparent">
<font color="#000000" size="4"><span style="background:transparent"> <font face="Arial"><font>SWEET
“glaciation” maps to EnvO “glacial ice gain”.</font></font></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:138%;background:transparent">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="4"><span style="background:transparent">Ruth
notes that glaciations as time periods are named (e.g. Pleistocene).</span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent"><font size="4"><br>
<br>
</font></p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:138%;background:transparent">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="4"><span style="background:transparent">Chuck
geo-schema (with OWL-Time) might provide a cross walk for the 2
ontologies looking at geo-time periods.</span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent"><font size="4"><br>
<br>
</font></p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:138%;background:transparent">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="4"><span style="background:transparent">Work
included editing Chuck’s owl file such as deprecating
“periglaciation”.</span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent"><font size="4"><br>
<br>
</font></p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:138%;background:transparent">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="4"><span style="background:transparent">Getting
back to harmonizing EnvO and SWEET (is this a 2 step process? If we
add the terms to SWEET, clean them up AND then see how to map to
EnvO.) :</span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:138%;background:transparent">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="4"><span style="background:transparent">Issue
#185 - definition of “glaciation”. Involves meaning of “glacial”
and its sub-properties. Ruth notes 3 different meanings of glaciation
in GCW depending on the discipline. So 3 sub-types of Glacial
Process?</span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:138%;background:transparent">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="4"><span style="background:transparent">For
example difference noted of glaciers advancing to cover land, vs.
“glacial ice gain” (mass).</span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent"><font size="4"><br>
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</font></p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:138%;background:transparent">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="4"><span style="background:transparent">Issue
190: related to Issue 185. Will be resolved in the quality section of
EnvO/PATO.</span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent"><font size="4"><br>
<br>
</font></p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:138%;background:transparent">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="4"><span style="background:transparent">Glacial
retreat (Maybe also Glacial Advance). May now be more of a
non-issue for alignment but is a SWEET issue - is it a sub-class of
“melting”. Probably not.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="4"><span style="background:transparent">Issue
185: shows the need to revise the whole branch area in SWEET.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="4"><span style="background:transparent">Environmental
zone discussion- some distinctions made by NEON about named entity/
sampling sites. They may have fiat boundaries rather than
boundary from a physical process.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="4"><span style="background:transparent">Q:
Does an ablation zone have to be Part-Of a glacier...or is it
overlapping? This hasn’t been answered by the Cryo community.
To some iit can be elsewhere such as on an ice sheet.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="4"><span style="background:transparent">So
EnvO might have an “ice ablation zone” as well as the more
general “ ablation zone”.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="4"><span style="background:transparent">Some
discussion of geo-relations in BFO rather than Egenhofer relations.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font><span style="background:transparent"><font size="4">Issue:
Alpine - resolved exact match issue and noted issue in SWEET about
tundra concep</font><span style="font-size:11pt">t.</span></span></font></font></font></p></div><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 dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="garamond,serif" size="4">Gary </font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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