Where to archive data
This page contains information about where oceanographic data should be archived for long term storage and preservation. New entries will be added as we learn of them.
ADCP -- Submit ADCP data to JASADCP.
contact Julia "Jules" Hummon at University of Hawaii (as of 2/2009).
Biogeochemical field data funded by NASA’s Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry (OB&B) program are to be submitted to SeaBASS.
NODC has provisions to take Biological Data. The process is just a little less well known. For the basic hydrographic data as well as the biological data, NODC is the national permanent archive for water column data in the US. [9/14/2009] Contact NODC at
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Submit/
and, if one has questions, contact
Contacts at NODC include (January 2011):
- Margarita Conkright (Director)
- Don Collins (hydrographic profile data)
- Hernan Garcia (hydrographic profile data for WODB)
- Ken Casey (technical director)
- Sharon Mesick (general data archiving agreement)
http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/organization/sharon-mesick