The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project

Farrell, Úna C.; Samawi, Rifaat; Anjanappa, Savitha; Klykov, Roman; Adeboye, Oyeleye O.; Agic, Heda; Ahm, Anne-Sofie C.; Boag, Thomas H.; Bowyer, Fred; Brocks, Jochen J.; Brunoir, Tessa N.; Canfield, Donald E.; Chen, Xiaoyan; Cheng, Meng; Clarkson, Matthew O.; Cole, Devon B.; Cordie, David R.; Crockford, Peter W.; Cui, Huan; Dahl, Tais W.; Mouro, Lucas D.; Dewing, Keith; Dornbos, Stephen Q.; Drabon, Nadja; Dumoulin, Julie A.; Emmings, Joseph F.; Endriga, Cecilia R.; Fraser, Tiffani A.; Gaines, Robert R.; Gaschnig, Richard M.; Gibson, Timothy M.; Gilleaudeau, Geoffrey J.; Gill, Benjamin C.; Goldberg, Karin; Guilbaud, Romain; Halverson, Galen P.; Hammarlund, Emma U.; Hantsoo, Kalev G.; Henderson, Miles A.; Hodgskiss, Malcolm S. W.; Horner, Tristan J.; Husson, Jon M.; Johnson, Benjamin; Kabanov, Pavel; Keller, C. Brenhin; Kimmig, Julien; Kipp, Michael A.; Knoll, Andrew H.; Kreitsmann, Timmu; Kunzmann, Marcus; Kurzweil, Florian; LeRoy, Matthew A.; Li, Chao; Lipp, Alex G.; Loydell, David K.; Lu, Xinze; Macdonald, Francis A.; Magnall, Joseph M.; Mänd, Kaarel; Mehra, Akshay; Melchin, Michael J.; Miller, Austin J.; Mills, N. Tanner; Mwinde, Chiza N.; O'Connell, Brennan; Och, Lawrence M.; Ossa Ossa, Frantz; Pagès, Anais; Paiste, Kärt; Partin, Camille A.; Peters, Shanan E.; Petrov, Peter; Playter, Tiffany L.; Plaza-Torres, Stephanie; Porter, Susannah M.; Poulton, Simon W.; Pruss, Sara B.; Richoz, Sylvain; Ritzer, Samantha R.; Rooney, Alan D.; Sahoo, Swapan K.; Schoepfer, Shane D.; Sclafani, Judith A.; Shen, Yanan; Shorttle, Oliver; Slotznick, Sarah P.; Smith, Emily F.; Spinks, Sam; Stockey, Richard G.; Strauss, Justin V.; Stüeken, Eva E.; Tecklenburg, Sabrina; Thomson, Danielle; Tosca, Nicholas J.; Uhlein, Gabriel J.; Vizcaíno, Maoli N.; Wang, Huajian; White, Tristan; Wilby, Philip R.; Woltz, Christina R.; Wood, Rachel A.; Xiang, Lei; Yurchenko, Inessa A.; Zhang, Tianran; Planavsky, Noah J.; Lau, Kimberly V.; Johnston, David T.; Sperling, Erik A.

doi:10.1111/gbi.12462

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The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project

1. Trinity College Dublin
2. Stanford University
3. Oklahoma State University
4. University of California, Santa Barbara
5. Princeton University
6. Yale University
7. University of Leeds
8. Australian National University
9. University of California, Davis
10. University of Southern Denmark
11. University of Science and Technology of China
12. ETH Zurich
13. Georgia Institute of Technology
14. Edgewood College
15. Weizmann Institute of Science
16. University of Paris
17. Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
18. University of Toronto
19. University of Copenhagen
20. Universidade de São Paulo
21. Geological Survey of Canada
22. University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
23. Harvard University
24. United States Geological Survey
25. British Geological Survey
26. Pomona College
27. University of Massachusetts Lowell
28. George Mason University
29. Virginia Tech
30. Kansas State University
31. Géosciences Environnement Toulouse
32. McGill University
33. Lund University
34. Johns Hopkins University
35. The University of Texas of the Permian Basin
36. University of Cambridge
37. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
38. University of Victoria
39. Iowa State University
40. Dartmouth College
41. Pennsylvania State University
42. California Institute of Technology
43. Jacobs University
44. Australian Resources Research Centre
45. University of Cologne
46. Imperial College London
47. University of Portsmouth
48. University of Waterloo
49. Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
50. University of Tartu
51. St. Francis Xavier University
52. Texas A&M University
53. University of Chicago
54. University of Melbourne
55. University of Tübingen
56. Government of Western Australia
57. University of Saskatchewan
58. University of Wisconsin–Madison
59. Geological Institute
60. University of Colorado Boulder
61. Smith College
62. Western Carolina University
63. University of St Andrews
64. Shell (Canada)
65. University of Oxford
66. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
67. Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development
68. University of Edinburgh

Geobiology explores how Earth's system has changed over the course of geologic history and how living organisms on this planet are impacted by or are indeed causing these changes. For decades, geologists, paleontologists, and geochemists have generated data to investigate these topics. Foundational efforts in sedimentary geochemistry utilized spreadsheets for data storage and analysis, suitable for several thousand samples, but not practical or scalable for larger, more complex datasets. As results have accumulated, researchers have increasingly gravitated toward larger compilations and statistical tools. New data frameworks have become necessary to handle larger sample sets and encourage more sophisticated or even standardized statistical analyses. In this paper, we describe the Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project (SGP; Figure 1), which is an open, community-oriented, database-driven research consortium. The goals of SGP are to (1) create a relational database tailored to the needs of the deep-time (millions to billions of years) sedimentary geochemical research community, including assembling and curating published and associated unpublished data; (2) create a website where data can be retrieved in a flexible way; and (3) build a collaborative consortium where researchers are incentivized to contribute data by giving them priority access and the opportunity to work on exciting questions in group papers. Finally, and more idealistically, the goal was to establish a culture of modern data management and data analysis in sedimentary geochemistry. Relative to many other fields, the main emphasis in our field has been on instrument measurement of sedimentary geochemical data rather than data analysis (compared with fields like ecology, for instance, where the post-experiment ANOVA (analysis of variance) is customary). Thus, the longer-term goal was to build a collaborative environment where geobiologists and geologists can work and learn together to assess changes in geochemical signatures through Earth history.

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© 2021 The Authors. Geobiology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. Issue Online: 22 October 2021; Version of Record online: 05 July 2021; Manuscript accepted: 05 June 2021; Manuscript received: 31 May 2021. We thank Sufian Lattouf for developing the initial version of the SGP website, and Kai Lenz, Kassie Sharp, Aaron Cole, Clare Swan, Lyna Kim, and John Freshwaters for computational assistance. We thank Erin Saupe, Itay Halevy, Jordon Hemingway, Minming Cui, Maya Gomes, Matthew Granitto, Alf Lenz, Charles Henderson, Chengsheng Jin, Clint Scott, David Champion, Jinghai Yang, Joe Shaffer, Kathy Doyle, Lei Xiang, Liam Bhajan, Patrick Sack, Paul Hoffman, Paulo Linarde Dantas Mascena, Will Thompson-Butler, and Yu Liu for their contributions to SGP. We thank Patrick Sullivan and Laramie Duncan for discussions regarding the PGC and research consortium organization. We thank the donors of The American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for partial support of SGP website development (61017-ND2). EAS is funded by National Science Foundation grant (NSF) EAR-1922966. BGS authors (JE, PW) publish with permission of the Executive Director of the British Geological Survey, UKRI. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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