November 2020. SESAR version 7.4.2 is released
On November 24th, we released a new version of SESAR. The release includes new enhancements and improvements.
Enhancements include additional validations to the batch registration process and updated security features (moving select pages from http to https). Improvements include minor bug fixes to the edit page for managing sample metadata and the processes for transferring ownership of large scale numbers of samples.
You can read the full list of new enhancements and bug fixes on the SESAR Release Notes page.
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November 2020
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July 2020
July 2020. SESAR version 7.4.1 is released |
SESAR Curator Sarah Ramdeen and Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Geological Collections Manager Alex Hangsterfer were awarded an ESIP FUNding Friday mini-grant at this year’s ESIP Summer Meeting. The funds from the grant will be used to support MARS (Middleware for Assisting with the Registration of Samples), a software developed by Dr. Jim Bowring and his group of undergraduate students at the College of Charleston. |
February 2020
February 2020. SESAR version 7.4.0 is released |
July 2019
July 2019. SESAR version 7.3.0 is released |
June 2019
June 2019. SESAR will co-host a workshop “Vive les Samples! Geosample data management and visualization for the discerning geochemist!” at the Goldschmidt Conference in Barcelona on August 18th from 8:30 am - 12:30 pm. Please register here.
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May 2019
May 2019. This newsletter summarizes new features and improvements in the System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR). Click on the links below for more detailed information.
New Samples in SESAR13,233 samples have been registered in SESAR since February 2019. Browse the complete SESAR catalog with more than 4.3 million samples.
Tutorials & Help PagesDon't forget to check out our help page for information and tutorials about using SESAR to register, update, and manage your samples.
SESAR Sample Type Highlights Most popular sample types and materials of samples registered in SESAR from February 1 - May 1, 2019.
SESAR Community
IGSNs in the Literature
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February 2019
February 2019. This newsletter summarizes new improvements and features in the System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR) as well as recent outreach and user highlights. Click on the links below for more detailed information.
Samples AddedSince November 5,011 samples were registered in SESAR. Browse the complete SESAR catalog with more than 4.3 million samples.
Recent SESAR ImprovementsSESAR v.7.2.2 was released in November 2018. This new version introduced improved validation and new functionality for the Sub-Object Type and Classification fields and implemented a new version (4.0) of web service schema. See more release notes here.
SESAR Community
User SpotlightIn this edition we spotlight Nichole Anest and the team at the Lamont-Doherty Core Repository. The Lamont-Doherty Core Repository (LDCR) contains one of the world’s most unique and important collections of scientific samples from the deep sea. Sediment cores from every major ocean and sea are archived at the Core Repository, which contains approximately 72,000 meters of core and associated metadata. Besides their mission to provide long-term curation and archiving of samples and cores, the Core Repository also fulfills sample requests, assists investigators in sample collection activities, and works tirelessly to educate teachers, students, and the public about the important role science and the Core Repository play in building a better understanding of Earth processes.
We caught up with Nichole to learn more about how the Core Repository uses the IGSN and SESAR to manage their samples, and to explore some of their exciting sample collections. Read more below:
Why do you use SESAR? We use SESAR because it makes it possible to track samples through time and publications. I get many students requesting samples that someone used in a paper years to decades ago but the information in the paper about the samples is usually limited or non-existent. So, we have to go back through our paper sampling histories to locate the PI, what core(s) and at what intervals they sampled, and try to piece together what samples' data were used for the published work. The use of IGSNs makes these sort of sample requests much easier as well as giving "automatic" acknowledgement to the repository where the samples came from.
Sample group highlight: There are about two hundred cores that were taken by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), part of the US Dept of the Interior, to look for near-shore sand deposits. They wanted to identify where beach sand was transported after major coastal storms (such as Irene and Sandy) and see if it is feasible to use it to replenish the beaches after such storms. Check out the BOEM cores in SESAR which include core photos as well as grain size data.
The BOEM cores in the Lamont-Doherty Core Repository
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May 2018
May 2018. Nearly 7,000 holes drilled across the globe in collaboration with the Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office have been registered in SESAR. These holes now have persistent and globally unique identifiers (IGSNs) and can be linked to core samples extracted from the holes. Check them out in the SESAR Catalog by searching Set Name/IGSN -> IGSN begins with "CDR". These holes were registered as part of Open Core Data, an NSF-funded project that is radically improving discoverability, accessibility, citeability, preservation, and integration of data from past, current, and future drilling and coring projects.
CSDCO Hole Locations plotted in GeoMapApp |
April 2018
Apr 2018. SESAR version 7.1.1 is released, which includes new features, enhancements, and improvements.
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