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New MagIC v2.4 Released! A new version of the online database for the Magnetics Information Consortium is now available including a much improved usage of controlled vocabularies and support of more magnetic data types. Users can upload their own rock and paleomagnetic data and data from legacy studies into this online relational database. Data uploads prepared with older versions of the MagIC software will be automatically update once reprocessed with the new version of the console software. Download software ... PmagPy has been added to Earthref.org's Online Modeling Tools. PmagPy is a software package written by Lisa Tauxe for handling paleomagnetic data, including the MagICPy scripts to help import paleomagnetic data into the MagIC database. Knowledge of Python is not required to use the software, but would be useful for customizing the programs for your own use. Detailed instructions for the PmagPy installation and numerous examples are provided in the documentation. Read more ... Lisa Tauxe has updated her Online Book: Essentials of Paleomagnetism (with contributions from R. Butler, S.K. Banerjee and R. van der Voo). It attempts to draw together the various principles and practices within paleomagnetism in a consistent and up-to-date manner. Paleomagnetic Data are useful in many applications of the Earth Sciences from determining paleocurrent directions to analyzing the long-term behavior of the geomagnetic field. Despite the diversity of applications, the techniques required to obtain and analyze the data are similar and all make use of the new MagIC Database. Read more ... Registration is open for SEAMOUNTS '09 an international workshop for Interdisciplinary Seamount Sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, organized by the Seamount Biogeoscience Network (SBN). This international workshop focuses on a wide range of biological, chemical and physical seamount science themes from their deep-earth origin to their oceanography, ecology and fisheries. This workshop will provide a representative overview over state-of-the art seamount science through keynotes and poster presentations. Register now ... As of this week, we have uploaded a significant number of new entries in the Partition Coefficient (Kd) Database. In addition, we have made corrections in the existing database, and made a first step at increasing, and clarifying the search parameters. This upgrade represents (an increase of over 35% in the size of the database) the first step in our new initiative to bring the database up-to-date, and to create a searchable database that will allow users to download full experimental datasets through this system. This compilation now represents information from over 300 papers. Visit the Kd Datatbase ... The New ArArCALC v2.4 is released, encapsulating many new features and numerous upgrades that have been collated over the last four years. This release marks the first of three major upgrades that will be made public over the coming two years under new funding by the EAR Instrument and Facilities program of NSF. Download software ... The Fifth GERM Workshop will be held on May 28-31, 2006 at the Columbia University in Palisades NY. The Science Advisory Committee includes Steve Goldstein, Francis Albarede, Louise Kellog, Roberta Rudnick, Bernard Peucker-Ehrenbrink and Hubert Staudigel. Read more ... The EarthRef Digital Archive (ERDA) invites User Upload of digital files. We recommend that you use this digital archive to store any digital file that does not fit into the structure used by the MagIC Upload Wizard found on the upper left of this page. Typical ERDA file uploads may include field work pictures, animations, video excerpts, custom software, location maps, white reports, workshop volumes, field trip guides, etc. Uploaded files will be immediately available to all users of the EarthRef.org website. Start a new ERDA file upload ... The basic design of the EarthRef.org website has been updated based on feedback from many of its users. Currently, we are about to finish the Second Phase of this Redesign Project, in which we have improved the functionality and information displayed on the home pages for EarthRef.org, GERM, MagIC and ERESE. Each of these web sites will function as the Web Portal for its corresponding database, while taking advantage of the infra-structure provided by the EarthRef.org umbrella web site and database. Please check back with us on a regular basis to see how the design evolves over the next few months. We would appreciate your comments or suggestions through the Feedback form. The GEOMAGIA50 database is now up and running. GEOMAGIA50 is a database that comes with a web interface intended to give users easy access to archeomagnetic data. At present, the database contains 8,000 determinations of geomagnetic field directions and intensities for the past 50,000 years. View database ... A two week learning segment on Hotspot Volcanoes has been implemented through a collaborative effort between Melanie McWilliams, a high school Earth and Planetary Science teacher at Chula Vista High School in California, and Jamie A. Russell, a masters student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Utilizing data collected during Jamie's research, the students were taught about the hotspot theory and how hotspot volcanoes are important to understanding other Earth science concepts. The segment begins with five lessons, one for each day of the week and culminates with a group project for the students. Read more ... Three scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Hawaii are traveling to Antarctica to study the geological history of Earth's magnetic field. This scientific endeavor, project G-182 (spelled 'golf-1-8-2') of the US Antarctic Program will begin on November 16, 2006 with a flight from Christchurch/New Zealand to McMurdo in Antarctica. We will provide you with regular updates of the 2006/2007 expedition, but above all, you will be able to contact us and ask questions or get more information, because McMurdo station has high-speed internet access. So, we are looking forward to share our adventures with you or to chat to you over the internet! Expedition home page ... The First SBN Workshop finished successfully with the presentation of 20 keynote presentations and more than 25 posters. All keynote presentations are now available as Microsoft Powerpoint presentations, Adobe Acrobat PDF's or QuickTime Movies from the ERDA digital archive. Poster presentations will become available from this online archive as well over the coming weeks. Download here ...
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Seamounts '09 Workshop, SIO, La Jolla, 19-21 March 2009 SERC-ERESE Developers Workshop, SIO, La Jolla, 2-5 March, 2008 Fifth GERM Workshop, Columbia University, Manhattan, 28-31 May 2006 First SBN Workshop, SIO, La Jolla, 24-35 March 2006 Astrobiology Graduate Conference, SIO, La Jolla, 17-21 August 2005 Second ERESE Teacher Workshop, SIO, La Jolla, 17-30 July 2005 |
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FeMO2009 Jason II Dive Cruise, Loihi Seamount, October 2009 Hawaiian Volcano Field Trip, University of California, September 2009 FeMO2008 Jason II Dive Cruise, Loihi Seamount, September 2008 FeMO2007 Jason II Dive Cruise, Loihi Seamount, October 2007 GOLF182 Antarctica Expedition, November 2006 to January 2007 Hawaiian Volcano Field Trip, University of California, September 2005 ALIA Expedition to the Samoan Islands and Vailulu'u, April 2005 Hawaiian Volcano Field Trip, University of California, September 2004 |
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