Research · Science Areas

Environmental Data Science & Systems

Objectives Provide data management and analysis for large, integrated environmental databases to the nation’s research community and policymakers Carbon Cycle and Carbon Sequestration Climatic Change Research Atmospheric Radiation Measurements Biogeochemistry of Terrestrial Ecosystems Biodiversity Our strength is our ability to support large integrated environmental database projects with extensive data management and analysis components. Our data centers provide access to value-added data used to: enable an objective assessment of the potential for, and consequences of, global change. improve the treatment of cloud and radiation physics in global climate models in order to improve the climate simulation capabilities of these models understand the complexity of the carbon cycle and the linkages to physical, biogeochemical and ecological processes and human influences

Major Projects

• AmeriFlux, which provides comprehensive data management services to the AmeriFlux network and DOE-supported FACE experiments
• Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Archive, which supports DOE's ARM project
• Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC), which supports DOE's research related to global change and manages the World Data Center for Atmospheric Trace Gases
• Discovery, Access, and Delivery of Data for the IPY (DADDI), which supports the accessibility of Arctic coastal data
• FLUXNET, which facilitates communication amongst the global flux tower community
• MERCURY, a toolset for harvesting, indexing, and searching spatio temporal metadata
• Modeling and Synthesis Thematic Data Center (MASTDC), which provides data management services to North American Carbon Program (NACP) investigators
• Ocean Carbon, which provides data management support for the International World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), the Climate Variability (CLIVAR) CO₂ Repeat Hydrography International Project, the Underway surface pCO₂ measurement data, the Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP), and the Pacific Ocean Biogeochemical Models stimulation
• ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center, which supports the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Observing System Program
• NARSTO - Quality Systems Science Center (QSSC), which coordinates quality systems and data management activities for NARSTO, a North American consortium for research on lower-atmospheric ozone and particulates
• NBII Metadata Clearinghouse - National Biological Information Infrastructure, which provides increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources
• USA National Phenology Network, which is a network of people and research projects studying phenology (the study of the timing of life cycle events in plants and animals).

Research Staff

Baskaran, Latha Beaty, Tammy Bell, John Blasing, TJ Boden, Tom Cederwall, Ric Christensen, Sig Cook, Robert Curtis, Carroll Devarakonda, Ranjeet Gibson, Karen

Greene, Jim Grubb, Jon Hook, Les Jackson, Barbara Kaiser, Dale Kozyr, Alex Lenhardt, Chris Krassovski, Misha Manneschmidt, Jay Marland, Greg

McCord, Raymond McMurry, Ben Olsen, Lisa Palanisamy, Giri Pan, Jerry Post, Mac Sill, Dave Santhana-Vannan, Suresh Yang, Bai Wilson, Bruce

For more information, contact:
Tom Boden - Team Leader, CDIAC
Raymond McCord - Team Leader, ARM Archive
Bruce Wilson - EDSS Group Leader and Team Leader, NASA DAAC

Revised: 2/04/08