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
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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
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Greene, Jim
Grubb, Jon
Hook, Les
Jackson, Barbara
Kaiser, Dale
Kozyr, Alex
Lenhardt, Chris
Krassovski, Misha
Manneschmidt, Jay
Marland, Greg
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McCord, Raymond
McMurry, Ben
Olsen, Lisa
Palanisamy, Giri
Pan, Jerry
Post, Mac
Sill, Dave
Santhana-Vannan, Suresh
Yang, Bai
Wilson, Bruce
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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
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