(Appologies for cross-posting) Dear Colleague, Please consider submitting an abstract to: SSP11/GI11 "Building A Global Geosciences Cyberinfrastructure" <http://www.cosis.net/members/meetings/sessions/information.php?p_id=244&s_i d=4465> Co-organized by Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI) and Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (SSP) Convenors: Jens Klump (GFZ Potsdam), Robert Huber (Univ. Bremen/MARUM), Walt Snyder (Boise State Univ.) Description: Data on stratigraphy, sedimentology and paleontology are heterogeneous and diverse. The same is true for geophysics, tectonics, paleoceanography, and other fields that all need to be integrated for a better understanding of the processes shaping our planet Earth. In many countries around the globe, a rapidly increasing number of Geoscience projects are developing and maintaining digital data and information systems together with tools for data analysis and visualization. The emerging Geoscience cyberinfrastructure must be an international effort in order to successfully promote advances in geoscience research and enable new approaches to addressing scientific problems that in turn lead to new discoveries and an improved understanding of the Earth. In order to maximize the impact of these globally distributed Geoinformatics resources, it is essential that these efforts be collaborative and integrated. This sessions focuses on collaboration and integration between cyberinfrastructure projects in Geoscience and has two objectives: (1) to discuss how the political, cultural, organizational, and technical challenges towards a truly global cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences have been addressed, and (2) to highlight examples of international collaborations that successfully coordinate and integrate their efforts. Important Deadlines: 08 December 2006 - Deadline for Support Applications 15 January 2007 - Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts 15 - 20 April 2007 - European Geosciences Union - General Assembly 2007 Yours sincerely, Dr. Robert Huber WDC-MARE / PANGAEA - www.pangaea.de, www.wdc-mare.org Stratigraphy.net - www.stratigraphy.net _____________________________________________ MARUM - Institute for Marine Environmental Sciences (location) University Bremen Leobener Strasse POP 330 440 28359 Bremen Phone ++49 421 218-65593, Fax ++49 421 218-65505 e-mail rhuber@wdc-mare.org, robert.huber@stratigraphy.net