2009 Fall AGU Meeting

Several BCO-DMO staff members will be attending AGU this year, and Cyndy Chandler is co-convening an ESSI session again this year with Karen Baker (SIO) and John Graybeal (UCSD, OOI and MMI).

Fall 2009 AGU ESSI session IN15:
Strategies for Improved Marine and Synergistic Data Access and Interoperability

Sponsor: Earth and Space Science Informatics
Co-sponsor: Atmospheric Sciences (A)
Biogeosciences (B)
Global Environmental Change (GEC)
Ocean Sciences (OS)

IN15 Session Description:
Mindful of the growing number of ecological research data systems, data management efforts and underlying ontologies, this special session will focus on solutions to, and strategies for, accessing marine and synergistic data across multiple collections, platforms, systems, and standards. The effective integration of data retrieved from distributed sources depends upon negotiated arrangements of science domain concepts, metadata frameworks, and community engagement. We will hear about arrangements of these components for managing field data and the lessons learned from different strategies. This session represents an opportunity for the marine and related data management communities to draw together our diverse data management experiences and learn from our collective research efforts and associated community developments.

Conveners: Cyndy Chandler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)  cchandler@whoi.edu

Karen Baker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) Integrative Oceanography Division  kbaker@ucsd.edu

John Graybeal, University of California at San Diego (UCSD), Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) Project jgraybeal@ucsd.edu