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 This wiki is the documentation for the [[http://www.ice-d.org/|ICE-D database project]], whose purpose is to organize and work with data having to do with Earth science applications of cosmogenic-nuclide geochemistry. If you know what that means, you're in the right place.  This wiki is the documentation for the [[http://www.ice-d.org/|ICE-D database project]], whose purpose is to organize and work with data having to do with Earth science applications of cosmogenic-nuclide geochemistry. If you know what that means, you're in the right place. 
  
-This wiki is likely to be under construction for the foreseeable future. If you would like to contribute to any aspect of it, contact <html><a href="mailto:balcs@bgc.org?subject=I want to volunteer to help with the ICE-D wiki!">Greg Balco</a></html>. +This wiki is likely to be under construction for the foreseeable future. If you would like to contribute to any aspect of it, contact <html><a href="mailto:balcs@bgc.org?subject=I want to volunteer to help with the ICE-D wiki!">Greg Balco</a></html> or <html><a href="mailto:jtulenko@bgc.org?subject=I want to volunteer to help with the ICE-D wiki!">Joe Tulenko</a></html>. 
  
-If you are interested in contributing to any part of the ICE-D project, contact <html><a href="mailto:balcs@bgc.org?subject=I want to volunteer to help with the ICE-D project!">Greg Balco</a></html> or <html><a href="mailto:benjamin.laabs@ndsu.edu?subject=I want to volunteer to help with the ICE-D project!">Ben Laabs</a></html>. +If you are interested in contributing to any part of the ICE-D project, contact <html><a href="mailto:balcs@bgc.org?subject=I want to volunteer to help with the ICE-D project!">Greg Balco</a></html>,  <html><a href="mailto:jtulenko@bgc.org?subject=I want to volunteer to help with the ICE-D project!">Joe Tulenko</a></html>, or <html><a href="mailto:benjamin.laabs@ndsu.edu?subject=I want to volunteer to help with the ICE-D project!">Ben Laabs</a></html>. 
  
 ==== What is the ICE-D project? ==== ==== What is the ICE-D project? ====
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 Comparing geochronological data collected at different times or by different labs thus requires continually recalculating all of the ages from source observations with a consistent method. This is a serious headache for any Earth science application that aims to analyse a reasonably large set of geochronological data to learn about, e.g., paleoclimate, ice sheet change, or seismic hazards. The purpose of the ICE-D project is to deal with this obstacle by building a data management and analysis system that stores the raw geochemical observations and calculates ages, or other geologically useful results, dynamically when required for an analysis application.  Comparing geochronological data collected at different times or by different labs thus requires continually recalculating all of the ages from source observations with a consistent method. This is a serious headache for any Earth science application that aims to analyse a reasonably large set of geochronological data to learn about, e.g., paleoclimate, ice sheet change, or seismic hazards. The purpose of the ICE-D project is to deal with this obstacle by building a data management and analysis system that stores the raw geochemical observations and calculates ages, or other geologically useful results, dynamically when required for an analysis application. 
  
-A very comprehensive exposition of this idea can be found in a [[https://gchron.copernicus.org/articles/2/169/2020/|paper]] describing the software design, as well as in a [[http://hess.ess.washington.edu/repository/CI/Balco_Laabs_CI_project_description_20190813_shortened.pdf|proposal]] to the National Science Foundation to fund development of the system. There is also much less information in a [[https://twitter.com/ice_d_database|Twitter feed]], which mostly just tweets links to pictures of remote places i Antarctica.+A very comprehensive exposition of this idea can be found in a [[https://gchron.copernicus.org/articles/2/169/2020/|paper]] describing the software design, as well as in a [[http://hess.ess.washington.edu/repository/CI/Balco_Laabs_CI_project_description_20190813_shortened.pdf|proposal]] to the National Science Foundation to fund development of the system.  
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 +A description of how the project got started and how it is supported can be found [[history_support|here]].
  
 ==== ICE-D focus areas ==== ==== ICE-D focus areas ====
  
-Although the point of the ICE-D project is to assemble any and all cosmogenic-nuclide data, we make this project more manageable by structuring it around [[domains:start|a set of specific Earth science applications]]. Assembling all the data needed for focused science applications one at a time makes it possible to go from zero to useful a lot faster than trying to do the whole thing at once.  At present, these are the [[http://antarctica.ice-d.org|ICE-D:ANTARCTICA]], [[http://alpine.ice-d.org|ICE-D:ALPINE]], [[http://calibration.ice-d.org|ICE-D:PRODUCTION RATE CALIBRATION]], and [[http://greenland.ice-d.org|ICE-D:GREENLAND]] databases. +Although the point of the ICE-D project is to assemble any and all cosmogenic-nuclide data, we make this project more manageable by structuring it around [[domains:start|a set of specific Earth science applications]]. Assembling all the data needed for focused science applications one at a time makes it possible to go from zero to useful a lot faster than trying to do the whole world at once.  Some examples are the [[http://www.ice-d.org/antarctica/|ICE-D:ANTARCTICA]], [[http://www.ice-d.org/alpine/|ICE-D:ALPINE]], and [[http://www-d.org/greenland|ICE-D:GREENLAND]] databases. 
  
 ==== Transparent Middle Layer infrastructure === ==== Transparent Middle Layer infrastructure ===