About the Event

Do you remember collecting rocks as a kid? Have you been in a museum and wondered how those samples got there and what they are used for? These samples are often from obscure locations, and are collected by teams of scientists and technicians, a very expensive process. How can the scientific community sustainably tap into existing collections and resources?

In this talk, Saebyul Choe will explore the behind-the-scenes of geological collections in museum and research settings, and how these collections are used by researchers for FAIR and Open Data. Building on her time in the Earth and Planetary Sciences department’s collections at the American Museum of Natural History, and now with Columbia’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory on the Geoinformatics team, she will discuss efforts that allow and encourage future reuse of samples and data which is available to researchers, teachers & students, and anyone interested in local and global geologic data.