Dear Colleagues, If you are attending the Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans next week, there is still time to sign up for this interdisciplinary lunchtime forum on Monday, Feb. 22.
Physical Samples in the Ocean Sciences - a Forum 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Room 201-202 Monday February 22nd, 12:30-2:00 pm Lunch provided - Register at http://goo.gl/forms/fW4A06mUNm This discussion forum will provide an opportunity to learn about some of the groups working collaboratively on solving issues surrounding physical samples, how they support digital and physical sample management, options for sample citation in publications, links to related content such as field expeditions, datasets, and ORCIDs for investigators, and for you to tell us about YOUR challenges with your sample collections, their curation, documentation, and preservation, your issues with ephemeral samples, and how you want to access and visualize data related to physical samples. The forum will also be an opportunity to check out existing tools that can help you manage your samples. Please contact any of these groups through their websites: iSamples Research Coordination Network - http://earthcube.org/group/isamples CRESCYNT Coral Reef Science and Cyberinfrastructure Network - http://crescynt.org SeaView Integrative Activity - http://earthcube.org/group/seaview MARPA - http://earthcube.org/group/marineannuallyresolvedproxyarchives SESAR System for Earth Sample Registration - http://www.geosamples.org EarthCube - http://earthcube.org - visit us at Booth 507 during OSM 2016 If you're interested in any of these topics but cannot attend this gathering, please get in touch with us - we'd like to talk. Thank you! All the best, Ouida Ouida Meier, PhD Program Manager, CReSCyNT: Coral Reef Science and Cyberinfrastructure Network Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
