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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
Digital Repositories
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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
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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.usapdata.org/AMD.kmz
http://www.marinegeo.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