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Curators of Marine (& now Lacustrine) Geological Samples 30 th Anniversary Meeting. Welcome. Greetings from Floyd McCoy, Chairperson of the original Curators’ Meeting in 1977 “Please express my happiness that curatorial things continue from those slight beginnings so long ago…”.

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  1. Curators of Marine (& now Lacustrine) Geological Samples 30th Anniversary Meeting Welcome

  2. Greetings from Floyd McCoy, Chairperson of the original Curators’ Meeting in 1977 “Please express my happiness that curatorial things continue from those slight beginnings so long ago…” 2007 – Floyd on sabbatical, about to crawl into a Greek submersible

  3. Congratulations to Woody Wise for participanting in 1st meeting & the 30th!

  4. The Index to Marine & Lacustrine Geological Samples Objective of the Database: Dissemination of standardized information on sample collections to the scientific community Conceived at the first NSF-supported Curators’ meeting in 1977 by participants from the following institutions: FSU, HIG, LDEO, RSMAS, OSU, SIO, URI, USC, USGS, UW, U Wisc, UT, WHOI, & NGDC

  5. Index to Marine & Lacustrine Geological Samples30 years of progress http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/curator/ 2004 NSF Division of Ocean Sciences Data and Sample Policy (NSF 04-004) 2003 EOS article “Curators of Sea Floor and Lakebed Samples Celebrate 25 Years of Service.” 2002 NRC “Geoscience Data and Collections, National Resources in Peril” 1996 IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data & Information Exchange, Resolution IODE-XIV.2

  6. Not shown: newest contributor, the Byrd Polar Research Center (BPRC)

  7. U.S. Department of CommerceNational Oceanic & Atmospheric AdministrationNational Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)Marine Geology and Geophysics Division & Collocated World Data Center for MGG, Boulder http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/

  8. Where is NGDC within NOAA? NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Oceanic and Atmospheric Research National Ocean Service National Weather Service National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Program Planning and Integration Marine and Aviation Operations • Satellite Operations • Satellite Data Processing & Distribution • Research & Applications • Systems Development • National Climatic Data Center • National Geophysical Data Center • National Oceanographic Data Center

  9. The Environmental Data Spectrum NGDC • Solar Activity • Space Environment • Upper Atmosphere NSIDC Lower Atmosphere Snow and Ice NCDC Wet Ocean Land Surface NODC NGDC Ocean Floor Earth’s Interior - NGDC

  10. What’s New at NGDC? NGDC recently reorganized, combining the Natural Hazards group with the Marine Geology and Geophysics Division (MGG). Ms. Susan McLean is Acting Chief of MGG, and Dr. George Sharman is now a special Assistant to the Office of the Director.

  11. NGDC Organizational Structure Mr. David Clark, Assistant Center Director Dr. George Sharman, Special Assistant Ms. Rashelle Richardson, Administrative Officer

  12. Marine Geology and Geophysics Division NGDC provides scientific stewardship for data from the ocean floor, from both coastal and open ocean areas, and for data related to natural hazards including tsunamis.

  13. NOAA/NGDC Commitment to Sea Floor Data Stewardship Data Scope & Mandate NGDC serves as the US National Repository for marine geological and geophysical data from the sea floor collected with public funds. Internationally, NGDC operates the World Data Center for MGG, Boulder, and the International Hydrographic Organization Data Center for Digital Bathymetry.

  14. Data Types Managed NGDC manages all types of data from the sea floor, including underway geophysical measurements, derived products and gridded databases, and descriptions and analyses of geologic samples. • NOAA/National Ocean Service (NOS) • hydrographic survey data & products • Trackline geophysical data • multibeam & single beam bathymetry • gravity & magnetics • seismic reflection • Marine sediment and rock analyses & descriptions • Gridded databases • Tsunami inundation DEMs • global and coastal gridded elevations • total sediment thickness of the oceans • Natural Hazards: tsunami, earthquake, volcano data NOAA/NGDC Commitment to Sea Floor Data Stewardship

  15. NOAA/NGDC Commitment to Sea Floor Data Stewardship International Partnerships & Project Participation • Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) • Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) • General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) & associated regional mapping projects sponsored by the IOC and IHO • Conducting IOC-sponsored international training in tsunami inundation DEM development • Managing the Index to Marine & Lacustrine Geological Samples database • Serving as a Bathymetric Data Assembly Center for the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) • Cooperating with international projects like the Solid Earth Sample Registry (SESAR) and goSEABED

  16. Permanent Archive We’re in it for the Long Haul, Preserving data for your great-grandchildren • Archived in original and processed forms • Documented to FGDC/ISO standards • Periodically migrated to new/approved media NOAA/NGDC Commitment to Sea Floor Data Stewardship

  17. NOAA/NGDC Commitment to Sea Floor Data Stewardship Data Rescue & Digitizing Rescuing data from scientists’ desks and file cabinets. NOAA Climate Data Modernization Program (CDMP) • 31,825 core photographs/negatives scanned • 7,234 core X-rays scanned • 6,202 core logs and smearslide descriptions key-entered • 1,043 coring data sheets scanned • 5,069 sea floor photographs scanned • plus seismic reflection data from the NGDC archives (sea floor materials digitized 2005 through August 2007 – many other categories not shown)

  18. NOAA/NGDC Commitment to Sea Floor Data Stewardship Data Access Policy Making data freely and publicly available. Marine geological and geophysical data managed by NGDC are in the public domain and freely accessible unless restrictions are requested by the data contributor, usually a moratorium for a specified period of time. Most data are online, searchable, and free for download. Analog data and custom products are offered at the cost of reproduction.

  19. NOAA/NGDC Commitment to Sea Floor Data Stewardship Access Interfaces and Tools Making data freely and publicly available. • Geospatially-enabled relational databases • Interactive browse tools • Web Feature Services • Web Map Services • File download in multiple forms

  20. NOAA/NGDC Commitment to Sea Floor Data Stewardship Example ArcIMS Interface: DEM Discovery Portal • Locate DEMs • View images • Link to DEM, Project, Source • Download data

  21. Metadata Standards & Vocabularies Actively adapting & applying community standards. • FGDC-compliant metadata • Implementing ISO standards • Marine XML (MML) collaboration • GCMD Theme & Place keywords • Dublin Core metadata tags NOAA/NGDC Commitment to Sea Floor Data Stewardship

  22. National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/

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