Publications

Douglas Fils1, Geoff Bohling2, Cinzia Cervato1, Pat Diver3, Doug S. Greer4, Joshua A. Reed1, and Xiaoyun Tang1. (1) Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University - CHRONOS, 253 Science I, Ames, IA 50011, (2) Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, 1930 Constant Ave, Lawrence, KS 66047, (3) DivDat Consulting - CHRONOS, 1392 Madison 6200, Wesley, AR 72773, (4) San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505 "Discover, Retrieve, and Apply CHRONOS Services for Science" To be presented at the American Association of Petroleum Geologist (AAPG) Annual Convention, Houston Texas, April 9-12, 2006
R. Mark Leckie1, Cinzia Cervato2, Kendra Clark1, Patrick Diver3, Douglas Fils2, and Brian Huber4. (1) Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, 611 N. Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01003, (2) Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University - CHRONOS, 253 Science I, Ames, IA 50011, (3) DivDat Consulting, Wesley, AR, (4) Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, "Using the Neptune Database to Explore Mesozoic-Cenozoic Chronostratigraphy and the Deep Sea Microfossil Record" To be presented at the American Association of Petroleum Geologist (AAPG) Annual Convention, Houston Texas, April 9-12, 2006
Cinzia Cervato1, Douglas Fils1, Geoff Bohling2, Pat Diver3, Doug S. Greer4, Brice Lambi1, Joshua A. Reed1, and Xiaoyun Tang1. (1) Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University - CHRONOS, 253 Science I, Ames, IA 50011, cinzia@iastate.edu, (2) Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, 1930 Constant Ave, Lawrence, KS 66047, (3) DivDat Consulting - CHRONOS, 1392 Madison 6200, Wesley, AR 72773, (4) San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505,"CHRONOS: Cyberinfrastructure for Earth History" To be presented at the American Association of Petroleum Geologist (AAPG) Annual Convention, Houston Texas, April 9-12, 2006
Joshua A. Reed1, Cinzia Cervato1, Christopher R. Fielding2, and Douglas Fils1. (1) Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University - CHRONOS, 253 Science I, Ames, IA 50011, (2) Department of Geosciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 214 Bessey Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0340, "CHRONOS’s Paleontological-Stratigraphic Interval Construction and Analysis Tool (PSICAT)" To be presented at the American Association of Petroleum Geologist (AAPG) Annual Convention, Houston Texas, April 9-12, 2006
Fils, D., Tang, X., and Cervato, C., 2005. Timescale Information System (TIS). Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 37, Salt Lake City Utah, November 2005, 278.
Reed, J.A., Cervato, C., Fils, D., and Snyder, W.S., 2005. Augmenting the Paleontological-Stratigraphic Interval Construction and Analysis Tool (PSICAT) with CHRONOS system services. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 37, Salt Lake City Utah, November 2005, 283.
Fils, D., Bohling, G., Cervato, C., Diver, P., Greer, D., Reed, J.A., and Tang, X., 2005. Role of semantic practices in CHRONOS system architecture. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City Utah, November 2005, 37, 417.
Greer, D.S., Bohling, G., Diver, P., Fils, D., Cervato, C., and Baru, C., 2005. A data infrastructure to support Earth history research. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City Utah, November 2005, 37, 416
FILS, Douglas "CHRONOS Data Bus Services for Andrill Efforts" Presented at the Antarctic Drilling Project (ANDRILL) Annual meeting Denver Colorado, May 2005
FILS, Douglas "CHRONOS Data Bus" Presented at the Geological Society of America Regions meeting, Minnesota, MN. May 2005
FILS, Douglas "CHRONOS Views on Paleo-GIS Resources" Presented at the Vienna Paleo-Reconstruction Meeting, Vienna Austria, April 2005
FILS, Doug, CERVATO, Cinzia, DAVYDOV, Vladimir, DIVER, Pat, HUBER, Brian, LECKIE, Mark"CHRONOS: A federation of databases to support taxonomic data preservation for the paleobiological community" Biological Collections Data, Structure of Descriptive Data (SDD) and Taxonomic Names To be presented at the Taxonomic Databases Working Group Annual Meeting (Biological Collections Data, Structure of Descriptive Data (SDD) and Taxonomic Names) Christchurch, New Zealand, 11-18 October, 2004.
FILS, Doug, CERVATO, Cinzia, BOHLING, Geoff, DIVER, Pat, GREER, Doug, and REED, Josh A."CHRONOS: A SERVICES BASED FRAMEWORK FOR CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL"
Geologic Time and CHRONOS: Databases, Tools, Outreach, Education, and the Geoinformatics Revolution
Presented at the Geological Society of America 2004 Conference, Denver Colorado, November 7th, 2004.
GREER, Douglas S., FILS, Douglas, BARU, Chaitan "AN ONTOLOGY FOR INTEGRATING STRATIGRAPHIC DATABASES"
Geologic Time and CHRONOS: Databases, Tools, Outreach, Education, and the Geoinformatics Revolution
Presented at the Geological Society of America 2004 Conference, Denver Colorado, November 7th, 2004.
DIVER, Patrick L., FILS, Douglas, BOHLING, Geoff, GREER, Douglas, REED, Josh "BUILDING THE CHRONOS SYSTEM DATABASES: A PARTNERSHIP PROCESS"
Geologic Time and CHRONOS: Databases, Tools, Outreach, Education, and the Geoinformatics Revolution
Presented at the Geological Society of America 2004 Conference, Denver Colorado, November 7th, 2004.
REED, Josh A., FILS, Douglas, DIVER, Pat, CERVATO, Cinzia "CHIRON: A FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING WEB INTERFACES"
Geologic Time and CHRONOS: Databases, Tools, Outreach, Education, and the Geoinformatics Revolution
Presented at the Geological Society of America 2004 Conference, Denver Colorado, November 7th, 2004.
HUBER, Brian T., CERVATO, Cinzia, and FILS, Doug "A DYNAMIC, INTERNET BASED DIGITAL TAXONOMIC ATLAS OF MESOZOIC PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA"
Geologic Time and CHRONOS: Databases, Tools, Outreach, Education, and the Geoinformatics Revolution
Presented at the Geological Society of America 2004 Conference, Denver Colorado, November 7th, 2004.
FILS, Douglas, CERVATO, Cinzia, DAVYDOV, Vladimir, DIVER, Pat, HUBER, Brian, LECKIE, Mark"A federation of databases to support taxonomic data preservation for the paleobiological community" Presented at the Taxonomic Databases Working Group Annual Meeting (Biological Collections Data, Structure of Descriptive Data (SDD) and Taxonomic Names) Gainesville, Florida February 2004

E. K. Sorensen, E. S. Takle, M. R. Taber, and D. Fils, CSCL Structuring the Past, Present and Future through Virtual Portfolios. In Dirckinck-Holmfeld, L, and B. Fibiger, Eds.: Learning in Virtual Environments, 2002
E. K. Sorensen, E. S. Takle, M. R. Taber, and D. Fils, Virtual portfolios: Lessons learned from 4 years of implementation. Seventh World Conference on Computers in Education: Networking the Learner., Copenhagen. 19 July - 3 August, 2001.
E. S. Takle, M. R. Taber, and D. Fils, An interdisciplinary Internet course on Global Change for present and future decision-makers, In A. Van der Beken, M. Mihailescu, P. Hubert, and J. Bogardi, 2000: Proceedings of the Learning Society and the Water Environment
E. K. Sorensen, E. S. Takle, M. R. Taber, and D. Fils, Structuring the Past, Present, and Future Through Virtual Portfolios. In Dirckinck-Holmfeld, L, and B. Fibiger, Eds.: Network for learning interactive multimedia. Vol. 1: Learning in Virtual Environments, 2000
Takle, E. S., M. R. Taber, and D. Fils, 1999: A interdisciplinary Internet course on Global Change for present and future decision-makers. The Learning Society and the water-environment Symposium proceedings pg 264-268; Paris, France 2-4 June.
Takle, E. S., M. R. Taber, and D. Fils, 1998: Interactive course ware on global change issues for universities and policymakers. Second International Conference on Climate and Water. Vol. 3, 1664-1669. Espoo, Finland 17-20 August.
Taber, Michael R., E. S. Takle, and D. Fils, 1998. Global Change Course Project. Presented at NUMAPS 1998 workshop at the International Institute for Theoretical and Applied Physics. 16 June 1998.
Takle, Eugene S., M. R. Taber, and D. Fils, 1998. Interactive Course ware on Global Change Issues for Universities and Policymakers. 2nd International Conference on Climate and Water, Espoo, Finland, 17 - 20 August 1998.
Taber, M. R., D. Yarger, P. Boysen, E. S. Takle, D. R. Fils, 1997. Technology-Based Teaching. PAGE focus group presentation, Boulder Colorado, 17 October 1997.
Taber, M. R., E. S. Takle, and Douglas Fils, 1997: Presentation for models of effective distance teaching. A satellite program presentation for Faculty Development in Distance Education, March 11, 1997, Iowa State University
Taber, M. R., E. S. Takle, and Douglas Fils, 1997: Use of the Internet for Student Self-Managed Learning. Submitted to the Sixth Symposium on Education, Annual Meeting of the American Meteorology Society, February 2-7 1997, Long Beach, California.
Yarger, D. N., E. S. Takle, M. R. Taber, and D. R. Fils, 1995: Distance Learning on a Tight Budget. Proceedings Bridging the Distance, Distance Education Conference and Professional Development Seminar, July 6 - 9, Iowa State University. Also, An Electronic Dialog from participants who attended the workshop on The Bridges: Cu-SeeMe and Collage. Two useful and inexpensive technologies to help achieve distance learning on a tight budget.

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Data Integration

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