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in Peril A report by the National Research Council finds that volumes of U.S. geological data and collections are at risk of being discarded or unused. Paul Cutler and Christopher G. Maples |
| Data
Preservation: A Global Perspective National repositories are spreading as countries seek to address a common challenge. Christopher M. Keane |
| Access
Makes an Old Collection New The founding collection of the Illinois State Museum was in danger of being forgotten. Brian Bisbee |
| The
Crisis in Geological Collections Collections of geological samples underpin the geological and paleontological sciences. But we face a crisis in preserving them. Donald G. Mikulic and Joanne Kluessendorf |
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Petroleum companies accumulate hundreds of drill cores and other data as they explore for oil. Some of these samples of Earth's subsurface are well stored in repositories like those pictured here in the background and foreground. But not all the data find a home. Read more. The fossil pictured is the Ammonite Sphenodiscus lenticularis, Maastrichtian Stage, South Dakota. Photo by Ed Gerken for the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research Inc.
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