Technical Notes: The Paleo Group decided that the Nigrini/Sanfilippo document Cenozoic Radiolarian Stratigraphy would be a very valuable Technical Note. They agreed that this document would be valuable in three formats:
- Hard copy
- Web version
- CD-ROM (the Technical Note could be added to an IR or SR viewable volume CD to decrease publication manufacturing costs). The subcommittee recommended that ODP advertise the availability of the publication on the Internet (e.g., micropaleontology list server) and query recipients of Technical Note 24.
Action: ODP/TAMU Publications has published the technical note in hardcopy and will be producing the CD-ROM and Web version during the winter 1996/7.
IHP Recommendation 96-2-1: Shipboard Collaboration
The IHP recommends that in the future, any and all collaborative arrangements made among groups of scientist aboard the ship must be approved, monitored, and adjudicated by the Co-Chief scientists of the Leg.
Action: The new policy recommendation has been forwarded to PCOM for consideration. (see Publications Policy, II. Obligations to Publish.)
IHP Recommendations 96-2-3: JANUS
The IHP recommends that JANUS Phase II be implemented as soon as possible. The IHP recognizes that implementation of Phase II will require that new monies be identified to support this effort. There is an immediate need to ensure shipboard capture of data and to provide the shipboard party with a tool to describe the cores. The IHP recommends going to JANUS Phase II before completion of Phase I (once the SC priorities 1–4 are complete) and made suggestions to the Operator as to what tasks could be taken over by ODP/TAMU instead of having them completed by TRACOR.
Action: See “JANUS Phase II (Visual Core Description Project).”
Sampling policies have been modified as of March 1996 regarding composite sections and core/core integration. The policy issues were revisited during the Curation Workshop held on 18 and 19 December 1996. The current ODP policy can be found at:
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