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MRC Current Activities

IODP has recently formed a Paleontology Coordination Group to improve management of paleontologic data within the IODP program. The MRC curators have been working together with other micropaleontology specialists and IODP data managers to formulate a program to improve the quality of micropaleontologic data entry, documentation, and data retrieval in the program. As a first step, master taxonomic name lists (TNLs) are being compiled for foraminifera, calcareous nannofossils, diatoms, and radiolarians, with other groups to follow in the future. These TNLs will provide scientists better access to existing IODP data (linking for example known synonyms automatically during searches), and will be the base for future development of other taxonomic data products.

The MRCs are proud to be contributing to this project. Please contact the lead curator for details if you are interested.

David Lazarus
Museum fuer Naturkunde
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Invalidenstrasse 43
10115 Berlin, Germany
Phone: 49-30-2093-8579
Fax: 49-30-2093-8868
david.lazarus@rz.hu-berlin.de