Download - Activity Update
Activity Update
Frank Nitsche
Robert Arko
Suzanne Carbotte
www.usap-data.org
Goals:
•Provide help finding a repository
•Make it easier to contribute data
•Improve search options
•Automated forms and processes
www.usap-data.org
Contribute Data
Options for Data RepositoriesDigital Repositories
• Climate observations - CLIVAR Data Assembly Centres (DACs)• Cryospheric data - National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) • Geochemical data - EarthChem• Geodetic data - University NAVSTAR Consortium (UNAVCO)• Maps, aerial photographs etc - USGS Antarctic Resource Center (USARC• Marine geophysical and oceanographic data - Marine Geoscience Data System (MGDS)• Paleobotany Antarctic Paleobotany Collection. • Paleomagnetic data - Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC). • Seismic data - Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS)• Sample registration - System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR).
Sample Repositories• Ice cores U.S. National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL)• Sedimentary cores, grab, rock samples –
Antarctic Research Facility (ARF), U.S.Polar Rock Repository (USPRR). • Biological specimens - The Smithsonian Institution• Meteorite samples - Johnson Space Center
Contribute Data
Contribute Data
Contribute Data
Access and Search
Access and Search
Access and Search
GoogleEarth kml files
http://www.usap-data.org/AMD.kmz
http://www.marine-geo.org/tools/kmls.php
Summary
Activities
• Assistance for data contribution
• Assistance for creating AMD record
• Improved search of data
• Automation of processes
Future issues:
• Submission of non-NSF data
• Quality control of submitted data
www.usap-data.org
Marine Geophysical Data Center and GeoMapApp
www.geomapapp.org
NB Palmer (USA)JC Ross (UK)Polarstern (Germany)