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WHOI Data Science Slack and monthly office hour

Got questions about data or coding? Want to discuss a topic related to data science? The whoi-datascience Slack is always open to WHOI staff and students; login to WHOI's Enterprise Slack and join the whoi-datascience Workspace.

We host a monthly office hour on Zoom on the 3rd Tuesday at 10am. Find the Zoom link on this IS webpage (internal/VPN).

Sponsored by WHOI's Ocean Informatics Working Group, IS, and Data Library & Archives. Please contact stace@whoi.edu or blongworth@whoi.edu for more information.

 

Solicitations and Dear Colleague Letters:

NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Using Long-Term Research Associated Data (ULTRA-Data)

  • [Link to DCL] April 23, 2024: "...seeks to stimulate and encourage the use and reuse of data from environmental time series research to improve generalizable understanding in fields including (but not limited to) ecology, organismal evolution/adaptation, geoscience, and oceanography."

NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Innovative Use of Scientific Collections (IUSC)

  • [Link to DCL] March 18, 2024: "Collections of physical samples and resulting data are also a critical long-term archive of biodiversity, climate change, and fluctuations in other Earth systems and can contribute to research towards a sustainable bioeconomy."

NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Availability of Earth Observation Data for NSF-Funded Researchers

  • [Link to DCL] April 26, 2023: "Recent developments in satellite and sensor technology have led to unprecedented advances in the resolution, extent, and frequency of Earth observations... Yet, many of these datasets have previously been unavailable for research purposes because they are generated by commercial providers. This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) announces the availability of high-quality commercial Earth observation data to NSF-funded researchers at no additional cost through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program..."
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Figure from "Enabling long-term oceanographic research: Changing data practices, information management strategies and informatics" (Baker and Chandler, 2008, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.05.009)