The Arctic Data Center is the primary data and software repository for the Arctic section of the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs (NSF-OPP).
We help researchers:
- Submit and share data for free with expert curation support
- Upload code, data, and documents from their research
- Get DOIs for datasets to use in publications and grant reporting
- Track dataset use with detailed usage statistics and FAIR assessments
- Find and explore data using spatial and keyword-based tools
Our Mission
Our mission is to help the research community reproducibly preserve and discover all products of NSF-funded science in the Arctic, including data, metadata, software, documents, and provenance that link these in a coherent knowledge model.
Key Current Arctic Data Center Objectives
Supporting Researchers at Every Step
We work directly with Arctic researchers to help them archive their data, share their work, and meet funder requirements.
Our team provides:
- Personalized support via email from our data curation team
- Help with data documentation, metadata, and DOI assignment
- Guidance on data management plans for NSF proposals
- Tools and expertise to meet open data and reproducibility standards
- In-house data science training courses and workshops at Arctic research conferences
Whether you’re preparing a grant, organizing your research outputs, or preserving data from past projects, we’re here to support your efforts.
Trusted and Certified
We are CoreTrustSeal certified, meeting international standards for reliable, long-term data stewardship. The Arctic Data Center achieved this independent certification in April 2020.