Session 2 Summary Table 4

Software

Processing

• University of Maine
  • Ice Core Dating Software
  • P301dx
• Tephra
  • Pychron (New Mexico Geochronology Research Laboratory)
    • Github: Pychron website
    • Optimized for noble gas, mass spec.
    • Output: summary tables go into Excel.
  • Sigmaplot
  • Excel
  • Raw files - Some kind of ASCII text file
  • Plenty of analysis techniques that haven’t changed.
• Programming Languages
  • R
  • Matlab
  • Python
• Other Visualization Tools
  • Igor
  • Jose Jimenez Igor Tutorial Wiki

How to find data?

• Having a link/pointer to how to get the data is most important
• From the publication
• NSIDC
• EarthChem Kayak for earth data
  • Quality control is a concern
  • Certification of data properties
• GeoRoc
• Search for the data by location
• NAVDAT - provides references, but need to filter out duplicates

Summary

The Big Issues

1. How is data processed
2. What is the meta data
3. How is the data found
4. What kind of output is the result?