Dr. Yoko Kugo’s dataset – Iliamna Lake (Nanvarpak, Nila Vena) Native and Local Place Names (2016-2019) – compiled the local place names in and around Iliamna Lake in Alaska with the help of five specific communities: Iliamna, Newhalen, Kokhanok, Igiugig, and Levelock. Check out the dataset and learn more about the importance and applications of this data in our Q&A with Dr. Kugo.
Blog & News Items
Arctica: The Arctic Data Center Newsletter, Volume 2
This blog post is the published version of Arctica, Volume 2, which was sent out to email subscribers on 9 March 2021.
Engage with the Arctic Data Center at AGU 2020
Arctic Data Center staff will be convening the following sessions and giving the following talks at AGU 2020.
Hands-on Coding . . . Virtually?
Understanding the Arctic Data Center’s approach to learning data science and management and how we transitioned it online.
Getting Credit for Data Creation and Curation
A New Feature at the Arctic Data Center Encourages Registration of Known Dataset Usage and Citations.
Find the Arctic Data Center at the ESA 2020 Virtual Meeting
Where to find the Arctic Data Center at the Ecological Society of America conference.
How can repositories support social scientific data? Inside the Arctic Data Center’s recent workshop
The Arctic Data Center, along with Arctic social scientific researchers Noor Johnson and Timothy Pasch, hosted a workshop to discuss data archival and re-use challenges and opportunities for Arctic social scientists. Learn more about what was discussed and what was brainstormed in this blog post.
Bringing Arctic Data into Undergraduate Classrooms
The guest blogger for today is Arctic Data Center Data Science Fellow, Sarah Erickson. Her project is all about bringing the Arctic to life in undergraduate classrooms all over the world using Arctic data. ***** We stand on the shoulders of giants and below us is a giant mountain of information. The Arctic Data Center… Read more »
Profile curated collections of data with portals on the Arctic Data Center
Create a custom, branded portal for your research topic or lab group that spans datasets in the Arctic Data Center – available for all users. Branded portals provide a convenient, readily customized way to communicate your science, your team, your data, and related data from within the Arctic Data Center.
Avoiding Data Risk: Strategies Protecting From Data Loss at the Arctic Data Center
The NSF Arctic Data Center, the primary data and software repository for the Arctic section of NSF Polar Programs, is now CoreTrustSeal certified. Our established data preservation practices and infrastructure are now endorsed by an international, community-based non-profit organization.