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OPP Office of Polar Programs (OPP) |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | November 19, 2019 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | December 16, 2021 |
| Award Number: | 1936530 |
| Award Instrument: | Continuing Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Rebecca Gast
rgast@nsf.gov (703)292-2356 OPP Office of Polar Programs (OPP) GEO Directorate for Geosciences |
| Start Date: | December 1, 2019 |
| End Date: | November 30, 2023 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $647,797.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $647,797.00 |
| Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2021 = $214,908.00 FY 2022 = $213,891.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
615 W 131ST ST NEW YORK NY US 10027-7922 (212)854-6851 |
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61 Rt. 9W Palisades NY US 10964-1707 |
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| NSF Program(s): | Polar Cyberinfrastructure |
| Primary Program Source: |
0100XXXXDB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.078 |
ABSTRACT
Samples and data obtained by researchers working in Antarctica are valuable, unique assets which typically require a substantial and expensive logistical effort to acquire. Preservation of these data increases the return on the significant public investment for acquisition, enabling future re-use for new analyses, and ensure that data behind scientific publications are available for others to review. The US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC) will provide an open-disciplinary hybrid repository for project metadata and the diverse research data obtained from the Antarctic region by NSF funded researchers for which other data repositories do not exist. In addition, a Project Catalog will provide a single online resource for the US Antarctic scientific community to manage information about their research activities and will link project metadata to the various distributed repositories where Antarctic data resides. In doing so, the USAP-DC will follow community best practices and standards to ensure data are citable, shareable, and discoverable. It will also facilitate registration of data descriptions into the Antarctic Master Directory to meet US goals for data sharing under the International Antarctic Treaty.
With full open access to interfaces to search for and download data, USAP-DC will make a wide range of data products resulting from NSF funded research in Antarctica available not only to the research community but also to the broader public. The data center is operated using community standards for metadata and data access which helps ensure data re-usability into the future. The new Project catalog, which is designed to support consolidation of information on research products of USAP awards over the lifetime of a project, will make it simpler for NSF program managers, but also for individual researchers and especially larger collaborative research groups to keep track of datasets and related information produced as part of their projects. Through tutorials and meetings at conferences USAP-DC will contribute to raise awareness and inform the research community, especially new investigators about data management best practices.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
Disclaimer
This Project Outcomes Report for the General Public is displayed verbatim as submitted by the Principal Investigator (PI) for this award. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this Report are those of the PI and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation; NSF has not approved or endorsed its content.
Earth and environmental science data are valuable, typically unique research assets which, in the extreme environment of Antarctica, require substantial and expensive logistical effort to acquire. Preservation of these data increases the return on the significant public investment for acquisition, enabling future re-use for new analyses, and supports scientific reproducibility ensuring observations behind scientific publications are available for others to review. The US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC), in operation since 2007, contributes to the preservation of research data acquired with funding from NSF’s Office of Polar Programs by providing a central catalog of NSF funded projects of the US Antarctic Program (the USAP Project Catalog) and an open access data repository for diverse research data from the Antarctic region (the USAP-DC Data Repository). Data types hosted span a wide range of Antarctic research from glaciology, to ecological studies, to space and solid earth science. The USAP Project Catalog is designed to provide a central resource for the US Antarctic research community to manage information about their research projects including data, citations to journal publications, links to NSF award pages and other information. The data center follows international and national community best practices and standards to ensure data are citable, shareable, and discoverable. Other data services include scientist support for registration of data descriptions into the Antarctic Master Directory to meet US goals for data sharing under the International Antarctic Treaty.
Over this award period we continued to operate and grow the data services of the USAP-DC (figure 1). Specific accomplishments were focused on expanding services to support the management of data through what is referred to as the data life cycle, from research initiation to publication of results, and long-term preservation to ensure the data can be used for other purposes long into the future (Figure 2). We developed new outreach tools to assist funded researchers in registering their projects within the USAP Project catalog when their project begins and in archiving their research data products at project completion. We developed new tools to help project managers gain an overview on the data resources and projects available for the programs they are responsible for. We developed new analyses of how scientists are using the USAP-DC online tools to guide improvements to these search and discovery tools. We also streamlined submissions to the international Antarctic Master Directory, to ensure US funded resources are accessible through this system and that dataset descriptions are routinely updated as updates are registered in USAP-DC.
With these enhancements in data services we logged a marked increase in both contributions to the USAP-DC and downloads from the system. The number of projects registered relative to the prior three years increased by ~100% and there was an over 50% increase in number of data submissions. The volume of data resources available through the catalog by the end of the project period totaled over 6 million data files equivalent to 31 Terabytes of data from across the different fields of science supported by the USAP. In terms of downloads of data from the system, we tracked a 370% increase in number of unique individuals downloading data and 250% increase in number of unique download requests with over 13 million files downloaded over the award period.
Last Modified: 03/04/2024
Modified by: Suzanne M Carbotte
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