ASLO 2011 Aquatic Sciences Meeting
In February of 2011, ASLO will convene its biennial ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The ASLO meeting is an opportunity for scientists from around the world to discuss emerging science on Limnología y Oceanografía en un Mundo en Cambio, Limnology and Oceanography in a Changing World. The goal of this conference is to bring together an international group of freshwater and marine scientists to meet the challenge of global change, exploring diversity and connections across the range of aquatic systems impacted by humans.
BCO-DMO will be represented by Dicky Allison and Cyndy Chandler. In addition to two poster presentations (see abstracts below), Dicky and Cyndy will be meeting will individual investigators to discuss data management support for their NSF funded research programs.
Poster Abstract #1
Session S02: Ocean Biogeochemistry Time-Series and Climate
Title: CARIACO TIME-SERIES DATA MANAGEMENT
The Carbon Retention in a Colored Ocean (CARIACO) Time Series site, located off the coast of Venezuela, has been conducting monthly ship-based data collection since November 1995. Because it is impossible to resample environmental data, proper management of those data sets is especially important to realize their full potential, to enable data re-use and facilitate integration of data from multiple disciplines and the synthesis of time-series collections. In recognition of this, in 2006 the US National Science Foundation funded the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) to serve the data management requirements of investigators funded by the NSF’s Biological and Chemical Oceanography Sections. BCO-DMO staff members collaborate with investigators ensuring that data are documented, stored, disseminated, and protected long after the research is completed. Highlighting the available CARIACO project data and related biogeochemical data, we describe the capabilities of the BCO-DMO data system: geospatial and text-based data discovery and access systems; recent enhancements to data search tools; data export and download utilities; and strategic use of controlled vocabularies to facilitate data integration and improve interoperability.
Abstract from ASLO site: http://www.sgmeet.com/aslo/sanjuan2011/viewabstract2.asp?AbstractID=8431
Poster as PDF: ASLO_Chandler_CARIACO_BCO_prePrint.pdf
Chandler, C. L., Allison, M. D., Groman, R. C., Gegg, S. R., Wiebe, P. W., Glover, D. M. (2011) CARIACO TIME-SERIES DATA MANAGEMENT, poster ID 243 presented at Session S02: Ocean Biogeochemistry Time-Series and Climate, ASLO 2011 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Puerto Rico, 17 February.
Poster Abstract #2
Session S30: Mechanistic Descriptions of Diverse Plankton Communities: From Observations to Models
Title: MANAGEMENT OF PLANKTON DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE DATA
Plankton distribution, abundance, and rate process data have been collected systematically since the Challenger Expedition, but unfortunately these and many other kinds of data have been lost. This fact highlights the importance of managing the ecological, biogeochemical and physical data we have in hand now or will be collecting in the future and making them easily discoverable, accessible, and re-usable. To facilitate this, in 2006 the US National Science Foundation funded the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) to serve the data management requirements of investigators funded by the NSF’s Biological and Chemical Oceanography Sections. BCO-DMO staff members collaborate closely with investigators ensuring that data are documented, stored, disseminated, and protected long after the research is completed. Highlighting global plankton distribution data and the availability of concurrent environmental data, we describe the capabilities of the BCO-DMO data management system including geospatial and temporal data discovery and access systems; recent enhancements to data search tools; data export and download utilities; and strategic use of controlled vocabularies to facilitate data integration and improve interoperability.
ASLO site: http://www.sgmeet.com/aslo/sanjuan2011/viewabstract2.asp?AbstractID=8486
Allison, M. D., Chandler, C. L., Groman, R. C., Wiebe, P. W., Gegg, S. R., Glover, D. M. (2011), MANAGEMENT OF PLANKTON DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE DATA, poster ID 402 presented at Session S30: Mechanistic Descriptions of Diverse Plankton Communities: From Observations to Models, ASLO 2011 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Puerto Rico, 17 February.