Rolling Deck to Repository: Transforming the United States

Academic Fleet Into an Integrated Global Observing System

Suzanne M. Carbotte, Robert Arko, Vicki L. Ferrini, Stephen

P. Miller, Karen Stocks, Cyndy L. Chandler, Andrew R. Maffei, Shawn R. Smith, Mark A. Bourassa

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,

Florida State University

UNOLSFleet

•Mobile platforms •Short term obs.•Global range•Ocean exploration

Infrastructure for ocean sciences

OOI•~Stationary platforms •Long-term obs.•Regional/Local range

IODP•Sampling•Deep time

The Objective:Well-documented high-quality

publicly available data

• Support published literature• Enable global syntheses• Provide ground-truth for a variety of

scientific applications• Enable data reuse and new discovery• Make publicly-funded data available to

the public • Enable informed policy and decision

making

• Research cruises include multiple investigators and yield heterogeneous data sets• Data documentation difficult or sparse• Little routine QA/QC is conducted and has varied historically depending on operator priorities/capabilities• Data are not systematically archived at U.S. National Data Centers

The Challenge:

US NOAA National DCProgram/Disciplinary DC

US NOAA National DCProgram/Disciplinary DCShipsShips R2RR2R

Evolution of theData Preservation Pipeline

US NOAA National DCProgram / Disciplinary DC

US NOAA National DCProgram / Disciplinary DCShipsShips Science PartyScience Party??

Shipboard Data

• Operational/Underway (e.g. bathymetry, MET, ADCP, subbottom etc)

• US National Facility (e.g. NDSF, NMSF, OBSIP)

• Science party instrumentation (e.g. current meter, sediment traps, chemical/physical probes etc)

Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R)Data Stewardship Plan

**Data will be distributed only after it is cleared of proprietary holds

R2R Deliverables & Services:5 Standard Products

1. Cruise Metadata Record

2. Scientific Sampling Event Log

3. Quality-controlled Ship Track

4. Real-time quality-controlled MET and TSG data

5. Operations Report (Formatted document containing standard products & appendices)

http://www.rvdata.us/about/products

R2R Deliverables & ServicesData Documentation and Delivery

• Data Catalog (dataset, and file level metadata)• Routine and consistent data delivery to NDCs• Routine and consistent data accessibility to DACs• Quality Assessment

• Feedback to Operators• Quality Assessment Certificates (QACs)• Describe data delivered to NDCs

http://www.rvdata.us/about/products

• Training Guides – publish community best practices for data acquisition & reduction

• Tools – make available software tools for QA that can be used by operators and/or scientists

• Data Recovery Service – original field data distribution

• Clearance Service – support preparation of data to foreign nations

Additional R2R Services

Cruise Catalog

Basic cruise metadata for >1,300 cruises from 13

ships http://www.rvdata.us/

catalog/

Complete Data Inventory

Vessel profile - device inventory

Data Delivery to US National Data

Centers

http://www.rvdata.us/catalog/Healy

http://www.rvdata.us/about/eventlog

Alex Dorsk (WHOI)

• Prototype Application

• Community Input (Operators, Scientists, Data Managers)

• Tested on several cruises

• Implementation plan

•operator installs application onboard•science party maintains log underway•results loaded in rvdata.us database for dissemination

Scientific Sampling Event Log

The Academic Fleet as anIntegrated Global Observing System

•Routine long-term preservation of shipboard data and documentation of ship-based scientific sampling•Complement existing data management efforts• Provide rapid QA feedback to Operators• Improve data accessibility through routine data submission to NDCs• Improve data re-use via routine QA

http://www.rvdata.us/

UNOLSFleet

OOI

IODP

#32 R2R: Managing Dataflow from a National Fleet of Research Vessels (Clark et al.) (POSTER)

#28 Shipboard Data Stewardship: From Ship to Shore to Archive (Chandler et al.) (POSTER)

#25 The Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) Initiative (Smith et al.) (POSTER)

Other presentations