Macrostrat's free, open, and innovative platform is made possible by a sequence of grants, sustained institutional support, in-kind contributions from partners, and gifts from people who use it.
Building a multiscale community-led ecosystem for crustal geology through the integration of Macrostrat and StraboSpot
Lead PI: Daven Quinn
GEO Open-Source Ecosystems · RISE-2324579 · 2023–2027U.S. National Science FoundationThe Macrostrat and StraboSpot open-source ecosystem.
Linking geochemical proxy records to crustal stratigraphic context via community-interactive cyberinfrastructure
Lead PI: Daven QuinnCSSI Elements · 2311091 (with Stanford, 2311092) · 2023–2027U.S. National Science FoundationPertnership with the Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project for time correlation
An interactive, literature-integrated digital crust in support of critical minerals assessment
Lead PI: Daven QuinnCriticalMAAS · 2023–2024DARPAMap ingestion and harmonization at national scale.
Geoinformatics: Facility: Paleobiology Database: Preserving and Presenting Ancient Data for Future Research
Lead PI: Shanan PetersGeoinformatics · EAR-1948843 · 2020–2025U.S. National Science FoundationOngoing support for data acquisition.
Extending Ocean Drilling Pursuits [eODP]: Microfossils and Stratigraphy
Lead PI: Shanan PetersEarthCube · ICER-1928323 · 2019–2025U.S. National Science FoundationOngoing support for data infrastructure.
EarthCube Building Blocks: Digital Crust – A 4D Exploratory Environment for Earth Science Research and Learning
Lead PI: Shanan PetersEarthCube · ICER-1440312 · 2014–2017U.S. National Science FoundationTurned a research database into a public platform, including the API and Rockd.
CAREER: Towards a high-resolution quantification of the North American rock record: integrating field data, citizen science, and participatory education for macrostratigraphy
Lead PI: Shanan PetersCAREER · EAR-1150082 · 2012–2019U.S. National Science FoundationFounding support for the Macrostrat database and its first infrastructure.
Institutional support · 2013–presentUW–Madison Department of GeoscienceContinuous institutional support for the project and staff.
Computing infrastructure · 2023–presentUW–Madison Center for High Throughput ComputingCloud computing infrastructure for Macrostrat and Rockd.
Location and basemap services · 2016–presentMapboxIntensive use of location and basemap services under a nonprofit agreement.
- Literature linksxDD
Links from geologic units to the published literature.
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Grants start things and keep us innovating, but a free, open resource has ongoing costs that fall between grant cycles: certificates and domains, cloud hosting and backups, security and monitoring, testing devices, and above all the people who curate a very large dataset and build the software. Individual gifts let us keep the lights on between awards and prioritize the improvements our users ask for. A one-time or recurring gift to the Paleontology Program Fund in Geology at the University of Wisconsin Foundation supports Macrostrat and Rockd directly. For larger gifts, sponsorships or in-kind partnerships, write to us.
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