The Geological Data Center:
Our main focus is to archive data from Scripps expeditions making them accessible for scientific and educational use worldwide. The GDC also maintains data collected by various institutions around the world for the IODP Site Survey Data Bank. The staff of the GDC performs quality control on the data and metadata for all collections.
Data, documents and images from expeditions by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) since 1903 are web-accessible through the SIOExplorer project as part of the NSF-funded National Science Digital Library (NSDL). The effort is a collaboration among researchers at Scripps, computer scientists from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), and archivists and librarians from the UCSD Library.
Shipboard data published on the SIO Explorer site include:
- Underway geophysical data, including time, position, bathymetry, sidescan, magnetics, gravity, seismics.
- Standard supporting data, including sea state, XBT, CDT, sea surface temperature and salinity, and derived SVP, as well as calibration data for each sensor.
- Station information for dredging, coring, trawling, and other over-the-side operations, with complete data or metadata, as appropriate.
- Derived data such as grids or plots should be archived for high-demand products, or when non-trivial processing steps are required.
