Geologic Material Center making changes

The Alaska Geologic Materials Center has adopted a newsletter format for its monthly reports. The newsletter, dubbed “The Sidewall,” highlights “goings-on at the Alaska GMC including current projects, operational changes, outreach events, intern activities, future plans, and more,” GMC said March 30.

Newsletters for October through February are available as a downloadable PDF on the Division of Geological and Geophysical Survey’s GMC Monthly Reports Web page at http://bit.ly/9vNabf.

GMC Curator Kenneth Papp will be giving a presentation at the 2010 Alaska Geological Society Meeting in Anchorage on April 16 about GMC going digital. Papp will also give a similar briefing at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists’ Preservation of Geoscience Data Committee session in New Orleans on April 13.

Both presentations will focus on “proactive changes being made at the GMC to ensure better material preservation and providing inventory details to users in intuitive, digital formats,” GMC said.

—Petroleum News