Highlight: “So-called rotten ice has experienced a long summer of melt, is fragile, difficult to work with, and has received little attention. Comprehensive information on its physical and microbiological properties does not exist,” – Dr. Karen Junge. Decreases in ice extent, concentration, and thickness have all been observed in the Arctic as sea ice responds… Read more »
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POLAR 2018 Workshop Presentation Slides Now Available Online
We’re enjoying connecting with Arctic researchers at the POLAR 2018 Open Science Conference in Davos, Switzerland this week. A condensed version of our Data Management Planning workshop’s presentation slides are now available online (https://t.co/QTH51S88fi). The Best Practices for Data and Metadata Submission presentation slides are also available online (Best Practices Presentation Slides). If you’re at… Read more »
Arctic Data Center Workshops at POLAR 2018 (15-23 June, 2018)
The Arctic Data Center is excited to connect with the Arctic community at POLAR 2018 in Davos, Switzerland June 15-23, 2018. Team members will be presenting three free training workshops during the Open Science Conference, focused on how the Arctic Data Center can support Arctic researchers with their data management, planning and submission. We… Read more »
Subsistence Harvests in Alaskan Communities along the Bering Sea, with Dr. James Fall
Highlight: “It is our goal to accurately describe contemporary subsistence activities and the issues faced by Arctic communities, all in support of sustaining these communities into the future,” – Dr. James Fall. This dataset, part of the same Bering Sea Integrated Research Program as a previous dataset highlight, investigates the implications of climate change… Read more »
Dissolved Organic Carbon, with Dr. Rose Cory
Highlight: This dataset is behind the study recently highlighted in a High Country News article, sharing the work of Dr. Rose Cory and her team. This dataset is part of a project working to understand what happens to soil organic matter when it’s flushed from soils to streams, ponds and lakes. This organic carbon is… Read more »
Call for Synthesis Working Group Proposals – Due May 23, 2018
(Full details) The Arctic Data Center is soliciting requests for proposals for a Synthesis Working Group, with research to begin by October 2018. Funding of up to $54,600 is available to support one Working Group, hosting two meetings of 3-5 days, with approximately 15 participants each at the Arctic Data Center in Santa Barbara, California,… Read more »
Data Provenance and Arctic Soil Bacteria with Michael P. Ricketts
Highlight: This dataset makes use of the Arctic Data Center’s data provenance tool to show the relationships between different data inputs and the processing that lead author Michael P. Ricketts and his team used to perform their analysis. By doing this, Ricketts is ensuring that this research is reproducible by others. This dataset is part… Read more »
The Thomas Fire in Santa Barbara
The Arctic Data Center, housed at UC Santa Barbara, is being subject to extended municipal power and network outages due to the Thomas Fire. Power issues started last week and are expected to continue into the week of December 10th, 2017. We are operating on backup generator power and backup cooling, which has allowed us… Read more »
Employment Opportunities
Do you have a passion for open science? Interested in Arctic research? Excited to engage with the broader research community? Consider joining the Arctic Data Center. We are currently seeking a Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator to maintain and further develop our community building, communications, and data science training activities, in addition to supporting communication… Read more »
Webinar Registration Open: Tools and Strategies for Archiving Data
Sponsored by the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), the Arctic Data Center are presenting a 1 hr webinar in which we will give a brief overview of the the Arctic Data Center; the history, infrastructure, and partnerships that support long-term preservation of data and metadata. We will highlight the many features and services offered by the Arctic… Read more »