#scientifichistory

MárciaW 🇸🇩MarciaW@ohai.social
2025-02-10

@GMWatch Excellent indeed! This misleading myth of science neutrality must be ditchet. As if scientists were free from social-economic, political or self-interest and science is a thing on its own and not a product of society that needs to be discussed by societal forces
#ScientificHistory #Scientism

💧🌏 Greg CocksGregCocks@techhub.social
2024-07-16

New Zealand Has A Unique [Open Data] Fossil Record [Online Database] Named FRED
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eos.org/articles/new-zealand-h <-- shared technical article
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doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2020. <-- shared paper
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fred.org.nz/ <-- FRED’s open data online portal
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[my ‘minor’ in my MSc Geology at the University of Auckland, NZ was in palæontology, and I have had an interest ever since; total aside – <fred.*> is what I call my temp/junk/working files, anyone else?]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #NewZealand #fossil #fossils #database #opendata #FRED #palæontology #paleontology #palaeontology #onlineportal #standards #records #publicrecords #geology #stratigraphy #sedimentology #scientifichistory #fossilrecord #samples #sampling
@gnsscience

maps - Example maps of New Zealand mainland (>73,000 localities), Raukumara Peninsula (>13,000 localities), and detail of Mahia Peninsula (212 localities), to illustrate the density and distribution of fossil localities recorded in the Fossil Record File.screen shot - Several different query facilities are provided by the FRED interface into the FRF, the most comprehensive of which is the ‘Advanced Query’. The figure depicts a partially populated Advanced Query search screen. Search fields are grouped into various categories (locality, stratigraphy, taxonomic, etc.) and a selection of operators (equals, contains, numeric inequalities, etc.) to allow a series of Boolean statements to be constructed. Full instructions are provided in the on-line user manual.graphic - reconstruction of an example of a New Zealand marine reptiles as seen in the fossil recordphotos - Left – Two of the most common fossil taxa recorded in the Fossil Record File, a rimu pollen grain, Dacrydium cupressinum (top; scale bar = 20 μm) and the foraminifer Globoquadrina dehiscens (bottom; scale bar = 200 μm). Right (stereo pair) – One of the rarest taxa recorded, the mosasaur Rikisaurus tehoensis (V19/f0068; scale bar = 200 mm). The microfossils have each been recorded more than 5000 times; the mosasaur only once.

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