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Data management in a large, international, multidisciplinary Antarctic project

Data management in a large, international, multidisciplinary Antarctic project. Antonio Quesada (UAM) Oscar Bermudez and Antonio Barragán (CNDP). The project. Byers Peninsula. International Site of Reference for Coastal and Terrestrial/Limnetic ecosystems studies. An initiative within the IPY.

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Data management in a large, international, multidisciplinary Antarctic project

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  1. Data management in a large, international, multidisciplinary Antarctic project Antonio Quesada (UAM) Oscar Bermudez and Antonio Barragán (CNDP)

  2. The project Byers Peninsula. International Site of Reference for Coastal and Terrestrial/Limnetic ecosystems studies. An initiative within the IPY

  3. Aims Byers Peninsula. International Site of Reference for Coastal and Terrestrial/Limnetic ecosystems studies Obtaining the maximum reference information as possible in one of the zones in the globe where climate change is affecting more

  4. Development Over 30 scientists: 13 countries, 26 institutions Environment protection= Groups of 5-6 people in short periods of 2-3 weeks during the development of the project Multidisciplinary groups

  5. Funding peculiarites • Spanish project, facilitating all the logistics, and parts of the general equipment and consumables • Every participant responsible of finding his/her travelling and science money • Many different institutions funded the individual projects

  6. Holocene changes in the climatic conditions

  7. Limnology of the area

  8. Microbiological studies

  9. Ornithological diversity, health and tourism stress

  10. Elephant seals population

  11. Biocomplexity and life cycles

  12. Vegetation studies

  13. Study the functioning of a complete watershed unit

  14. Carbon and nutrient budget at watershed level

  15. Environmental impact of the researchers

  16. Freshwater diving activity

  17. Data management • Spanish legislation makes mandatory to build metadata of all scientific activity developed within the Spanish Antarctic Program, and deposit the raw data in a data repository • IPY Data requirements • For fulfilling the law the CNDP produced an English interface for metadata creation via internet

  18. Data Center as a tool for research • Project Portal: bibliography, picture repository, scientific output…. • GIS interface to download layers of activity • Some with only positions others with data • Layers will cover: • Limnology • Vegetation • Microbiology • Fauna • Geology • and as many as needed

  19. Problems found on management • Non-Antarctic researchers very sceptical (not used to this) • Heterogeneity of data, from gen sequences to pictures or meteorological data • Period of data availability, some data are obtained immediately (instrument downloads), some others may take years, Period of Open Access?????? • Patenting and data ownership in different countries under different laws and procedures

  20. Solution Flexibility

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