Highlight: Permafrost thaw is expected to cost Alaska $37-51 billion in building and road damages by 2050 The Permafrost Discovery Gateway (PDG) is an online data visualization platform hosted by the Arctic Data Center that provides openly accessible permafrost conditions across the Arctic region for researchers, educators, and the public. The PDG leverages satellite imagery… Read more »
Computational models are growing in their capacity to consume large datasets and create complex, fine-scale outputs that sometimes reach multiple terabytes in size. Although in theory model output can be regenerated by re-running the model, doing so may require access to high-performance supercomputing, making reproduction costly and impractical. Therefore, when the model output data have… Read more »
Highlight: “Saunders emphasized the importance of having the work from her project funded and supported by the National Science Foundation and state agencies, highlighting the great value of investing in research like hers and resources like the ADC” Background and Research Expertise Prior to the Arctic, Taylor Saunders spent a few years immersed in the… Read more »
Highlight: “This course was an incredible opportunity to learn directly from the experts about best practices in scientific computing. It provided comprehensive training on data handling and computing – both training participants in fundamental coding skills and offering a broad survey of emerging trends in scalable computing. I now feel equipped to tackle bigger and… Read more »
The Arctic Data Center (ADC) Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinators, Angie Garcia & Nicole Greco, joined 1200 international scientists, researchers, Indigenous knowledge holders, and community members in attending the International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP) IV and Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) in Boulder, Colorado this past March. While the ICARP IV Summit occurs… Read more »
Training Overview The Arctic Data Center (ADC) held the annual virtual Reproducible Approaches to Arctic Research Using R training from February 24-28th, 2025 for 14 Arctic researchers from across the globe. Participants ranged from undergraduate students to senior-level scientists with a diverse range of research disciplines. This 4.5-day long course gave participants an overview of… Read more »
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… Read more »
Background and Research Expertise Trained as a plant ecologist, Laura Gough has worked in a variety of ecosystems throughout her career. When completing her PhD at Louisiana State University, she studied coastal marshes and was interested in answering questions pertaining to climate change like sea level rise. New to the tundra, Gough embraced the opportunity… Read more »
This January, we kicked off our 2025 data science training with the Fundamentals in Data Management for Qualitative and Quantitative Arctic Research course in Santa Barbara, CA with seventeen visiting Arctic researchers. All participants work in different disciplines with different focuses and research, but all joined us with one common goal: Enhance their data science… Read more »
Reflecting back on 2024, the Arctic Data Center (ADC) has experienced a lot of growth that is fostered by the research community. Much of our work has come with navigating large numbers of data uploaded to the repository, growing training and educational needs from the researcher community, and the cultivation of collaboration within our team… Read more »
