The Arctic Data Center (ADC) outreach team will be attending the ICARP IV Summit, Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW), the Polar Early Career World Summit, and the Navigating the New Arctic meeting in Boulder, CO from March 20-28th, 2025.

The ADC is co-convening session #8.2 on March 27th from 16:00-18:00 MDT titled “Data-Driven Research: Streamlining Collaboration Between Repositories and Researchers”. This session will focus on making data ready for use with AI and machine learning, automation and standardization of data quality assurance across systems, data integration and harmonization to create value-added data products, improving researcher experiences with data deposit and access systems, and identifying current and future user needs for data systems. You can find additional information, as well as the list of oral and poster presentations, here.

Attendees of the Polar Early Career World Summit (PECWS) can join the ADC’s workshop on FAIR and Ethical Data Collection for Collaborative Research on March 23rd from 11:00-12:30 pm MDT. This interactive workshop is designed to equip polar researchers with the knowledge and resources necessary to navigate the complexities of ethical data collection and management and open data sharing. We’ll be covering topics and facilitating discussions regarding the FAIR data principles, open data practices, and upholding ethical standards while ensuring transparency, accessibility, and collaboration. You can find more information about PECWS here.

Are you involved in the Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) community? Interested in creating a webpage for your project or improving your data visualization capabilities? The ADC invites the NNA community to join us on Wednesday (3/26) in E351 in the CASE building from 10:30-12:00 MDT to learn more about creating data portals to help share and organize data from your NNA project. The NNA community has already contributed over 170 datasets to the ADC and continues to expand. Despite this large amount of data, NNA project data can be hard to find as it is interleaved with thousands of other datasets at the ADC. To address this issue, the ADC is proposing a one-on-one office hours session during ASSW that will focus on supporting NNA projects interested in creating project data portals to highlight their results via geospatial data visualizations like interactive maps and 3D point clouds. ADC data portals allow researchers to create a coherent presentation of data, results, and findings in one centralized place, where additional information and project context can be provided to serve various audiences. This session will allow researchers to connect directly with the ADC team to work through the creation and navigation of our data portals and help us survey the diverse needs of the NNA community. You can find more information about NNA here.

Lastly, the ADC team will be presenting at the US Arctic Observing Network’s (US AON) session focused on “Tools and Strategies toward Coordination, Integration, & Effective Utilization of the Arctic Observing Network” during the “A Multiagency Approach to Advancing Arctic Observing” session on March 24th from 16:15-17:15 MDT. This lightning talk will focus on successes and challenges at the ADC and strategies to building effective programs and partnerships. You can find more information about the US AON here.

If you’d like to set up a separate time to chat with the ADC team, please reach out to Nicole Greco (greco@nceas.ucsb.edu) or Angie Garcia (agarcia@nceas.ucsb.edu).