CoreWall Visualization Workshop, Washington, DC

"Ideal Integrative and Interpretive Environments for Core Data: Establishing a Collaborative Vision for Ocean (and Continental) Drilling Programs" was a USSSP-sponsored workshop held in May 2006. The meeting was attended by MS PHD'S students, Ms Dana Brown and Mr. José Tirado Delgado, a masters student in atmospheric sciences at Howard University.

NSF recently funded the development of the CoreWall Suite, a real-time stratigraphic correlation, core description, and data visualization system for the marine, terrestrial, and Antarctic science communities. The identification of methods to ensure seamless integration of the CoreWall Suite across multiple platforms, between existing databases, and among various initiatives and projects was a primary goal of the workshop. The CoreWall Suite is anticipated to alter and enhance current approaches for core description and analysis of sediment and rock cores by providing an integrated environment for both field and repository settings. Group discussions developed requirements for tasks such as: correlation between sites, holes and cores, lithologic description system requirements, depth reference systems, age depth models and tools, stratigraphic tools (biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, isotope stratigraphy), image, data and text representation and annotations, geographic representations, and education and outreach requirements