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Idaho Geologic Survey seeks permanent database manager; director urges investment in core repository
Summary
The Idaho Geologic Survey requested general-fund support to convert a grant-funded database manager position to ongoing funding and discussed the value of preserving core samples and historical physical data to support exploration and resource planning.
The Idaho Geologic Survey (IGS) presented its FY2026 budget and asked the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee to provide additional general-fund support for a database manager position that has been historically grant-funded.
Analyst Kevin Campbell said IGS employs roughly 12.47 authorized full-time equivalents and that much of the survey’s work — collecting, interpreting and publishing geologic and mineral data for Idaho — is posted on the agency website. Director Claudio Berti, the state geologist, told the committee the database manager position has been supported with grants and with abandoned mine lands funds…
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