data management in a large, international, multidisciplinary antarctic project antonio quesada (uam)...
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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
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
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
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
Holocene changes in the climatic conditions
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Limnology of the area
Microbiological studies
Ornithological diversity, health and tourism stress
Elephant seals population
Biocomplexity and life cycles
Vegetation studies
Study the functioning of a complete watershed unit
Carbon and nutrient budget at watershed level
Environmental impact of the researchers
Freshwater diving activity
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
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
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
Solution