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<span style="background:white" class="ContentPasted0">We invite you to present your research in our session titled
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333" class="ContentPasted0">Data Preservation for the Geosciences: Recent Advances in Geo-Databases, Repository Practices, and Big Data Applications</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">
technical session at the 2023 GSA Rocky Mountain Section Meeting in Fort Collins, Colorado, 23–25 May 2023.<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">The session focuses on the need for FAIR (</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424" class="ContentPasted0">findability, accessibility,
interoperability, and reusability)<span style="background:white" class="ContentPasted0"> data repositories and databases that are user friendly to ensure the reuse of samples, data, and collections. This session is for public, private, and academic research
scientists</span> and staff<span style="background:white" class="ContentPasted0"> who are compiling, managing, and utilizing geoscience data. Topics in the session will include:
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span>novel approaches to digital and physical collection management, value added practices during compilation of data,
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span>uses of large datasets from public databases to contribute to research, the construction and maintenance of geoscience relational databases, QAQC procedures and workflows of compiling a variety of
legacy data formats, evaluating inherited or orphaned physical collections, innovative repository design and practices, and converting and preserving unsupported digital data formats.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0">
</span>We think your work would be a great fit for this session and we would love it if you would submit an abstract.<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<a href="https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2023RM/top/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=54254" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Submit an abstract to this session</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">:</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><span style="background:white" class="ContentPasted0">The abstract deadline is 28 February 2023.</span><br class="ContentPasted0">
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<span style="background:white" class="ContentPasted0"><a href="https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/Events/Section_Meetings/GSA/Sections/rm/2023mtg/home.aspx" title="https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/Events/Section_Meetings/GSA/Sections/rm/2023mtg/home.aspx " id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview">Here
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<span style="background:white" class="ContentPasted0">Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you for considering participation.</span><br style="mso-special-character:line-break" class="ContentPasted0">
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222" class="ContentPasted0">Amy Atwater (</span><a href="mailto:aatwater@usgs.gov" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">aatwater@usgs.gov</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222" class="ContentPasted0">)<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222" class="ContentPasted0">Kelly Thomson (</span><a href="mailto:kthomson@usgs.gov" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">kthomson@usgs.gov</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222" class="ContentPasted0">)<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">Victoria Crystal (</span><a href="mailto:vcrystal@usgs.gov" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">vcrystal@usgs.gov</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">)
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