SCICEX Data Stewardship: FY2012 Report
Abstract
The Submarine Arctic Science Program, SCICEX, is a federal interagency collaboration among the operational Navy, research agencies, and the marine research community to use nuclear-powered submarines for scientific studies of the Arctic Ocean. The SCICEX program seeks to acquire comprehensive data about Arctic sea ice, water properties, and bathymetry. This project s long term goal is to build a permanent data archive for new and old data collected as part of SCICEX, making the data usable by scientists now and preserving data for the future. Our objective is to support SCICEX in all aspects of data management including archiving, documenting, and making SCICEX data available to a wide scientific community. Programs of the size and complexity of SCICEX often need more in the way of support services, including outreach, a Web presence for the program, and development of higher-level products or tools. We provide these services as well. For fiscal year 2012, specific objectives were to: Create a dedicated SCICEX Web presence where scientists and other users can go to obtain data and read about SCICEX meetings and reports. It is also a place to capture historical information and photographs about the SCICEX program. Continue to find, collect, organize, and to the extent possible provide complete documentation for existing SCICEX data. In particular, work to get all SCICEX bathymetric data archived and discoverable by working with NGDC and the SCICEX bathymetric scientists. Act as a liaison to find and provide homes for data collected under newly active SCICEX missions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA574627
Entities
People
- Florence Fetterer
Organizations
- University of Colorado Boulder