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2 Nature of the Challenge
2 Nature of the Challenge
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For example, state geological survey data in Table 2-1 represent data for 39 of the 50 states; responses to the AGI (1997) survey did not include all petroleum companies; and a Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG)
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A single facility capable of holding just these endangered materials (i.e., 2 million boxes of core, 4 million boxes of cuttings, 12 million well logs, 150 million linemiles of seismic data, 10 million fossils, with no room for additional samples) would have to be at least 20 times as large as the current USGS Core Research Center in Lakewood, Colorado.
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Repository managers therefore are refusing to accept new data and collections because they simply do not have enough space in the repository. Figure 2-2 illustrates the amount of space available at state geological survey repositories around the United States, and Tables 2-3a and 2-3b summarize, respectively, the available space at state geological surveys and at other entities across the nation.
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Army Corps of Engineersb U.S. Geological Survey Core Research Center Ocean Drilling Program C & M Storage Inc.C LA County Museum of Natural History University of Rhode Island California Well Sample Repository- Bakersfield Denver Earth Resources Library National Ice Core Laboratory Los Angeles Basin Subsurface Data Center National Lacustrine Core repository <15 o 10 11 12 o 30 10 o 10 33 75 aIncludes space available for departments of paleobiology and mineral sciences at the National Museum of Natural History, Museum Support Center and Garber facility.
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Moreover, even repository managers who are fortunate enough to be able to construct or acquire new space usually overestimate the length of time it takes to fill the expanded repository and the cycle begins again (see Figure 2-3~. The problem of limited space is not unique to the United States.
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For example, EEX Corporation represents the amalgamation of 22 entities, and a single data administrator is charged with organizing data records of all 22 companies (Michael Padgett, EEX Corporation, personal communication, 2001~. In another common situation, a company may decide to move its operations.
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Minerals Inclus try Unlike the situation in many other countries (see Sidebar 2-5) , the United States has no requirements governing the disposition of geoscience records, reports, or collections from public lands obtained during the course of mineral exploration or mining.
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, Amax Mining (files now with Kinross Gold Corporation and Phelps Dodge Corporation) , New Jersey Zinc (files owned by a private in
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, and many others, as well as the now defunct minerals divisions of many oil companies. (For example, Standard Oil files are now with Rio Tinto Ltd.; Chevron files are in a number of hands, the two most important being AngloAmerican and Ivernia West Inc.)
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Because there are no requirements to keep core beyond any litigation phase, there are no regulations to prevent core from being discarded. Of the 15 responses the committee received from USACE district offices, only 4 indicated success in giving away core to other groups (universities and state geological surveys)
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In contrast, it is the quality and completeness aspect of sediment and ice cores that makes them unique and powerful storehouses of important paleoclimatic information (among other types of information they record)
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a wise insurance policy against intellectual loss. In addition, seemingly identical sediment and ice cores from geographically separate areas are critical in assessing the geographic range and potential global impact of various climatic and climate-related events on Earth.
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Sidebar 2-11 illustrates the role of such a board in advising the managers of the National Ice Core Laboratory in Lakewood, Colorado. The science advisory structure for the Ocean Drilling Program is illustrated in Figure 4-1.
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2. Document uniqueness, significance, completeness, and other known context of donated materials.
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