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OCE Data and Sample Repositories

DATA REPOSITORIES

SAMPLE REPOSITORIES

DATA REPOSITORIES

Research projects funded by the Biological and Chemical Oceanography programs must be registered with the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). Data from the funded projects should be either deposited directly with BCO-DMO or archived elsewhere and data link as well as relevant metadata be provided to BCO-DMO. https://www.bco-dmo.org/.

The CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office (CCHDO) supports oceanographic research by providing access to high quality, global, vessel-based CTD and hydrographic data from GO-SHIP, WOCE, CLIVAR and other repeat hydrography programs.

The Marine Geoscience Data System (MGDS) is a data repository that provides free public access to a curated collection of marine geophysical data products and complementary data collected throughout the global oceans. https://www.marine-geo.org/index.php.

Information about how to access data acquired by the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF) assets submersible Alvin, ROV Jason, and AUV Sentry can be found at: https://ndsf.whoi.edu/data/.

EarthChem provides open data services to the geochemical, petrological, mineralogical, and related communities https://www.earthchem.org/.

The Seismological Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (SAGE) Data Management Center (DMC) serves marine seismic data collected by ocean bottom seismometers (OBS). https://ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/.

The Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS) develops, supports, and disseminates integrated software modules that predict the erosion, transport, and deposition of sediment and solutes in landscapes and their sedimentary basins. CSDMS provides a repository for many different model types deadling with surface earth processes and sediment distribution. https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Main_Page.

Microstructure Database: Scripps Institution of Oceanography maintains the microstructure.ucsd.edu website for archiving and reporting on microstructure data. Data should be provided as described on the website and in coordination with CCHDO at UCSD (https://cchdo.ucsd.edu/submit).

National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) archives and provides access to a wide range of data including oceanographic and coastal data, weather and climate data, surface meteorological data, paleoclimate and paleoceanographic data, and geophysical and geological data. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/.

NOAA's World Data Service for Paleoclimatology (NOAA-Paleo) archives and distributes a wide range of paleoclimate and paleoceanographic data contributed by scientists around the world. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/paleoclimatology.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is a facility of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that provides access to biomedical and genomic information. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.

GenBank is the National Institutes of Health (NIH) genetic sequence database which has an annotated collection of publicly available DNA sequences. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/.

For numerical modeling code and output, Github is an example of where version-controlled model code can be archived and Zenodo is an example of where model results can be deposited.

SAMPLE REPOSITORIES

Institutional Repositories for Sediment and Rock Samples ensure that samples of sediment and rock collected from the seafloor are properly curated, preserved, and disseminated to qualified researchers. The Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples (IMLGS) is a tool to help scientists locate geologic material stored in repositories around the world https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/curator/curator.html. The following are NSF-approved institutional marine sample repositories: