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)