NEW 1998 MEETING ACTION ITEMS

1. NSF Participation - Nick Pisias/Alan Mix or designee to invite an appropriate representative to the next Curators' meeting (Next meeting to held at Oregon State University).
   
   
2. Interaction of the Curators' Group with IMAGES - Nick Pisias to contact members of IMAGES to discuss possibility of making the Curators' group a consulting body to that organization.
   
   
3. Curators' Database User Interface - Attendees and non attendees are encouraged to review the new Curators' database user interface window and relay comments and suggestions to Carla. The URL is http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov:8800/mgg/plsql/curtest.search_screen
   
   
4. Curators' Database Modifications - Carla Moore to:
   
   
   • Replace codes in the database with selections from the sanctioned list of "plain English" equivalents and modify the entry program to reflect this change.
     
     
   • Modify the database to accommodate "point" samples.
     
     
   • Link cruise readme  files (data collection methods), cruise reports, core photos, graphic core descriptions, etc. to the database as requested. Steve Carey will contribute cruise reports. Paula Worstell will send test cruise readme files and possibly graphic core descriptions.
     
     
5. Curators' List server - Carla Moore to provide "All" with an updated list of all recipients of the Curators' List Server.
   
   
6. Core Storage Survey - John Firth to forward to "All" Tobias Moertz' questionnaire re core storage techniques. (Moertz' is conducting a study on core aging and core storage techniques.)
   
   
7. Multisensor data calibration and standards - Dave Gunn will make some recommendations for calibration standards, common logging practices and data processing procedures. He will investigate the production and application of calibration sections and synthetic core standards as a means of improving accuracy and consistency in the core-logging process. Progress to be reviewed at the next Curators' meeting.
   
   
8. Smear-Slide CD-ROM and Web site - Guy Rothwell to coordinate development of an educational CD-ROM and Web site demonstrating core describing and smear-slide techniques. Others to collaborate providing Guy with ideas and smear-slide images.
   
   
9. Reference Collections - All to exchange smear-slides and photomicrographs to develop reference materials with the purpose toward increasing consistency of smear-slide analyses and core descriptions.
   
   
10. Sediment Classification - Steve Carey to chair a committee comprising Brian Edwards, Guy Rothwell, June Wilson, and Paula Worstell to review and make recommendations concerning sediment classification. (Steve and/or Brian will check with Bill Hay and Tom Janecek, members of the 1996 subcommittee to determine if they have interest in serving.) The committee will work with Carla Moore to ensure database compatibility and will circulate its suggestions to "ALL" for comments. Presumably the scheme will be voted upon at the next Curators' meeting.
    
    
11. Data Sharing with EuroCore - Guy Rothwell and Carla Moore will explore opportunities for data sharing and possible data mirroring between the Curators' database and the new EuroCore database.
    
    
12. GEOTIMES Article - John Firth to prepare an article for publication in GEOTIMES reporting on the current meeting.
    
    
13. Meeting Report/Minutes - Paula Worstell to draft meeting report and minutes for distribution to meeting attendees. The final versions to be distributed to "ALL" on the Curators' List Server and WebPages at URL http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/curator/meetings/1998/oct98minutes.html following review and approval of the meeting attendees.
    
    

Meeting report prepared by P. Worstell, Oct./Nov. 1998

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