Data Help Desk @ GSA Connects 2025

Highlights and resources from the Data Help Desk.

Volunteers Schedule Demos Materials Citation

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Overview

Dates: October 19–22, 2025
Venue: GSA Connects 2025
Location: San Antonio, Texas, USA

Organizing partners:

• ESIP (Earth Science Information Partners)
• GSA’s Geoinformatics & Data Science Division

Primary organizers (Alphabetical):

• Chandra Earl (ESIP) — ORCID: 0000-0001-9850-882X
• Zoe Gentes (ESIP) — ORCID: 0009-0000-8588-1932
• Anirudh Prabhu (GIDS) — ORCID: 0000-0002-9921-6084
• Sam Shaheen (GIDS) — ORCID: 0000-0002-0111-7361
• Tao Wen (GIDS) — ORCID: 0000-0002-6113-7532

Quick links:

• Organizer Google Drive
• Conference page

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Volunteer Schedule

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Demos

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Booth Materials

• Postcard
• Anonymous Question QR Codes
• Open Repositories Quick Reference Guide
• Rotating Slide Deck

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Volunteers (Alphabetical)

Name	Affiliation / Organization	ORCID	Demo Title
Jarrod Burges	Rutgers University — PhD Student	https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9044-1174	GeoCORK: An improved workflow for U-Pb geochronology data management
Will Gearty	Syracuse University — Postdoctoral Researcher	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0076-3262	Accessing and visualizing stratigraphic data from Macrostrat in R
Soumyadeep Ghosh	Univ. of Texas at San Antonio — Graduate Research Assistant (PhD Student)	https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5970-1510	Flood mapping or forest fire hazards in Google Earth Engine with satellite data
Kerstin Lehnert	Columbia Univ. (IEDA2 / Astromaterials Data System) — Senior Scientist	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7036-1977	“New PetDB 2” application, intro to ‘Using SESAR…’ and ‘Overview of the Astromaterials Data System’
Moussa Moustapha	National Advanced School of Maritime and Ocean Science and Technology — Assistant Professor	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7252-911X
Anayeli Ochoa	CU Denver — Intern
Anirudh Prabhu	Carnegie Science — Research Scientist	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9921-6084
Sam Shaheen	GSA Geoinformatics Division / Univ. of Minnesota — Postdoc	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0111-7361
Tao Wen	Syracuse University — Assistant Professor	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6113-7532

If your name is missing or needs correction, contact datahelpdesk@esipfed.org.

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How to Cite

Preferred citation:

Earth Science Information Partners, & Geological Society of America. (2025). Data Help Desk @ GSA Connects 2025. The Geological Society of America Connects 2025 (GSA Connects 2025), San Antonio, Texas, USA. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17458265

BibTeX:

@misc{DHD_GSA2025,
  author       = {Earth Science Information Partners and Geological Society of America},
  title        = {Data Help Desk @ GSA Connects 2025},
  howpublished = {The Geological Society of America Connects 2025 (GSA Connects 2025), San Antonio, Texas, USA},
  year         = {2025},
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.17458265},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17458265},
  note         = {Event landing page and materials}
}