The NSF Arctic Data Center: A New Home for Arctic Research Data

Post date: Jun 17, 2016 10:47:14 PM

In March 2016, the Arctic Data Center was launched and assumed preservation responsibility for Arctic research data from National Science Foundation (NSF) awards. The center serves as the NSF research community's primary repository for Arctic data preservation and data discovery, and is funded by the NSF via a five-year award. The Arctic Data Center currently lists 3,899 data sets covering data from myriad research fields, such as plant ecology (Eissenstat 2016), glacial chemistry (McConnell 2015), oceanography (Aagaard et al. 2016), and limnology (Arp), among many others...