Animal Telemetry Network - Data Assembly Center: Advancing the coordination, techniques and data integration for animal biologging and environmental observations to support region-specific decision ma
Abstract
"The U.S. Animal Telemetry Network Data Assembly Center (ATN-DAC) provides a national mechanism to facilitate and empower an alliance among Federal [Office of Naval Research (ONR), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), and the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)] and non-Federal entities to coordinate aquatic animal telemetry research, support data analysis, and develop infrastructure to support data sharing. The ATN-DAC serves a critical role in maximizing collaborations within the community by simplifying access to aquatic animal telemetry data and their behavioral, environmental, and acoustic data streams and methodology to be able toconduct advanced analytics. The ATN-DAC uses an online distributed system to ensure uniform access to U.S. animal telemetry data from anywhere around the globe. The ATN-DAC system is currently accessed via an intuitive web portal (https://portal.atn.ioos.us//) that has satellite telemetry datasets from over 35 animal taxa spanning the years 1995 to present. This repository is facilitating the transformation, discovery,and accessibility of datasets collected across species, technologies, and research platforms. This data management system provides an environment that increases the use of telemetry data across the ocean science research community while exploring novel capabilities for the rapid development of analytical tools to meet a variety of scientific and management needs.This proposal describes how the ATN-DAC will be enhanced to increase the coordination of biologging research activities and improve standardization and efficiency in the handling and integration of marine animal telemetry data together with physical oceanographic information. Ultimately, this project will augment the capabilities of the broader ocean science community to manage, share, and use telemetry datasets, which will result in improved biological and ecosystem-based management decisions that are informed by the data synthesis, integration, and tool development activities of this project. Our proposed work contains seven core components: 1. Develop optimized processing pipelines for data from new, sophisticated multi-sensor tag types for centralized access among the ATN community to facilitate data interpretation and accessibility; 2. Develop data synthesis products to support the community in the integration of biological and environmental data to inform scientific and ecosystem-based management needs; 3. Develop the capability to serve as a national aggregation hub for publicly available U.S. acoustic telemetry datasets;4. Host regional data workshops to improve accessibility of tagging datasets to the ATN community, and to provide focused technical assistance to researchers for data submission, access, and re-use of ATN data; 5. Develop the capability to deliver real-time ocean profile data from animal-borne sensor tags to weather and ocean forecasting centers via the Global Telecommunications System (GTS); 6. Continue development of the telemetry tag data aggregation capabilities of the ATN-DAC through continuous systems integration and dissemination via a publicly accessible ATN Data Portal; and 7. Continue development of the capability to publish and archive telemetry data in the ATN-DAC repository."
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- May 08, 2020
- Source ID
- N000142012410
Entities
People
- Molly Mccammon
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy