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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 Repositories.
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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
Options for Data Repositories • Digital 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) • PaleobotanyAntarctic 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 coresU.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
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 • NB Palmer (USA) • JC Ross (UK) • Polarstern (Germany) www.geomapapp.org