Project Information

Title: Data Management Program 20120113

Project Year and Number: 2020: 20120113

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2024: 24120113 , 2023: 23120113 , 2022: 22120113 , 2021: 21120113, 2019: 19120113, 2018: 18120113, 2017: 17120113, 2016: 16120111-C, 2015: 15120111-C, 2015: 15120111-D, 2014: 14120111-C, 2014: 14120111-D, 2013: 13120111-C, 2013: 13120111-D, 2012: 12120111-C, 2012: 12120111-D

Principal Investigator (PI): Carol Janzen (AOOS)

Managing Agency: NOAA

Assisting Personnel: Stacey Buckelew (Axiom Data Science)

Project Website: https://portal.aoos.org/gulf-of-alaska

Research Location: Gulf of Alaska

Restoration Category: Public Info. Science Mgmt. and Administration

Injured Resources Addressed: Not Specified

Abstract:

The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council (EVOSTC) requires a data management program composed of tools covering the entire data lifecycle, from immediately after data collection, to long-term preservation, to discovery and reuse. During the 2012-2016 EVOSTC five-year funding cycle, the Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) provided data management services for both the “Long-Term Monitoring of Marine Conditions and Injured Resources and Services” Program, referred to as Gulf Watch Alaska (GWA), and the “Herring Research and Monitoring” (HRM) Program. These two programs leveraged the existing data management capacity of AOOS, and have also helped inform and improve the overall AOOS data and metadata management, access, and visualization tools. The AOOS team and infrastructure continue to provide data services to the EVOSTC for the 2017-2021 funding cycle to maintain continuity and build upon the ongoing efforts and data management system development. New in 2020 (Year 9) is the addition of two Non-Program projects, which are being added to the Data Management work plan upon request from the EVOSTC. As before and with these new projects, AOOS will continue to provide access to the tools and services for which the principal investigators (PIs) of the GWA and HRM Programs depend. The Research Workspace will be maintained and supported to upload, organize, and document data, as well as to facilitate program administration. This platform is familiar to GWA and HRM PIs and allows data to be made promptly and securely available to team members and program administrators. The enhanced metadata editor accessed through the Research Workspace helps researchers more easily generate flexible yet robust, standards-compliant metadata. As in previous years, GWA and HRM Program data will be shared publicly (or ‘published’) through the AOOS Gulf of Alaska Data Portal, where it can be accompanied by any supplemental files or project documentation. The same publication pathway for the FY20 additional Non-Program project datasets is planned. Publishing through AOOS is beneficial to making the data available to a wide-ranging and established network of resource managers, scientists, and the general public to support decision-making. In addition, the GWA and HRM Program and new Non-Program datasets will ultimately be submitted to DataONE with a digital object identifier (DOI) for long-term preservation and broad access across multiple data repositories. Through the AOOS data management system, the significant expertise of the data management staff within its technical partner organization, Axiom Data Science, is leveraged. The Axiom staff have extensive experience with the GWA and HRM Programs and their associated data through the prior eight-years working with these programs. Building upon these established relationships and infrastructure, AOOS is well-poised to deliver continued success in its data management services to facilitate the access and curation of data from Program and Non-Program projects to support decision-making related to Spill affected ecosystems.


Proposal: View (818 KB)

Reports:
FY20 Annual Report: View (775 KB)
Final Report: See Project 21120113

Publications from this Project: None Available