In addition to preserving 60+ years of historic Scripps vessel data, the OGDC undertakes extramurally funded projects to manage oceanographic and geosciences data. The OGDC has extensive experience with data portals, quality control, and curation. If you are interested in OGDC services, please contact us.
Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R)The Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program provides fleet-wide management of underway vessel data to ensure preservation of, and access to, our national oceanographic research assets. With their global capability and diverse array of sensors, research vessels are essential mobile observing platforms for ocean science. Data collected on every expedition are of high value, given the high cost and increasingly limited resources for ocean exploration. R2R is a collaborative program, with the OGDC working with colleagues from LDEO, WHOI, and FSU. CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office (CCHDO)CCHDO (CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office) supports oceanographic research by providing access to high quality, global, vessel-based CTD and hydrographic data from GO-SHIP, WOCE, CLIVAR and other repeat hydrography programs. These data are used to address broad ocean research, including sea surface temperature and calculated surface currents, ocean heat content and transport, fluxes of heat, momentum, and freshwater and ocean carbon content and uptake. Because many of the CCHDO data are considered of reference quality, and cover an ever-growing time span, they provide a keystone in assessing and understanding the extent and nature of ocean changes. The Site Survey Data Bank (SSDB) for Scientific Ocean DrillingThe SSDB holds site survey data submitted in support of scientific ocean drilling proposals, with tools for proponents and reviewers. Previously used by the International Ocean Discovery Program, the SSDB now serves NSF-funded US Scientific Ocean Drilling. SIOexplorer and SIO Cruise InformationSIOexplorer is a historic project that created the SIOexplorer portal for searching data from almost a thousand SIO cruises from the 1950s to 2005, including cruise reports, multibeam, gravity, magnetics, etc. The OGDC also maintains the SIO Cruise Information page, allowing users to find basic information about the dates, ports, chief scientist, and cruise identifier for expeditions on SIO vessels. |