In early October, the Arctic Data Center held its third Data Science Training program of 2019, hosting US-based Arctic researchers with research activities spanning pan-arctically across Alaska, Canada, and Siberia. Fifteen participants, across eleven institutions, and from a wide range of data privacy and open source experience levels, came together striving to support one another… Read more »
Cross-posted from the ESA website ESA conference attendees brought many inquiries about data issues, needs, and planning strategies to the ESA/USSEE 2019 Data Help Desk. Representatives from seven data-intensive organizations (Table 1) shared their collective expertise and insights with more than 200 booth visitors. Collectively, we made an impressive presence of data organizations in the exhibition and… Read more »
The Third Polar Data Forum (PDF III) will be hosted by the Finnish Meteorological Institute at thair Dynamicum campus in Helsinki from November 18th to 22nd, 2019. PDF III will be a two day conference style meeting in support of information exchange, with the remainder of the week using a “hackathon” approach that will build on… Read more »
The Arctic Data Center is hosting a data science training funded by the National Science Foundation from October 7-11, 2019. This 5-day training provides Arctic researchers with an overview of best data management practices, data science tools, reproducible data analysis in R and Github, and concrete steps and methods for more easily documenting and uploading… Read more »
Highlight: “The hunters have a lot of valuable information to share, but often this information is overlooked or regarded as too difficult and time consuming to document. We’re helping show that’s not the case, that there are proven methods for documenting Indigenous knowledge efficiently and sharing that information,” – Dr. Henry Huntington. This dataset is… Read more »
Highlight: “I’d like to see data sharing and storage go beyond a static archive and develop into a knowledge-hub framework. A place where people can create knowledge through data analyses. A place where even Big Data, such as high resolution remote sensing imagery, can be analyzed with tailored software,” – Dr. Anna Liljedahl. Groundwater is… Read more »
Arctic Data Center team members will be attending the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2018 Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C., December 10-14, 2018. Come visit us at Booth 510 in the Exhibit Hall throughout the week and attend our two discussions/trainings in the AGU Central Theater, Booth 1018 in the Exhibit Hall (descriptions below). Team members will… Read more »
Highlight: “ICECAPS data and analyses have developed process relationships that relate cloud variability to different terms of the surface energy budget as a function of time of year. These relationships are used to assess large-scale models and identify specific model deficiencies that must be addressed to accurately represent the energy partitioning at Greenland’s surface,” –… Read more »
Highlight: “These data are critical for understanding how climate-induced changes in the timing of migratory herbivore grazing should be included in projections of the role of Arctic and Subarctic ecosystems in the global climate system,” – Dr. Kathy Kelsey. Phenological mismatch is when the timing of food and/or habitat availability for a species is altered… Read more »
The NSF Arctic Data Center is excited to announce the Call for Applicants for our January 2019 DataScience Training. The training will be held January 14th – 18th, 2019, at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, California. The training will provide Arctic researchers with an overview of best data management… Read more »
