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LTER Site Byte
LTER Site: California Current Ecosystem
Contributor: Karen Baker (Oct 22, 2006)
Site Byte:
The CCE information management effort is in its second year extending information management strategies to support the CCE community of scientists and interfaces with the LTER Network. A new disk share capability augmented last year’s technical infrastructure build-out. Two disk mount technologies have been established for immediate use and comparative purposes (see MKortz, File Sharing Options: Elements of a Collaborative Infrastructure, http://intranet.lternet.edu/archives/documents/Newsletters/DataBits/06spring/#7fa). In addition, plans include a new server that will isolate web and storage services. Our informatics design studio capacity was updated and used for joint design sessions with California Cooperative Oceanographic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) program participants. Organizational infrastructure was also built-out by initiating collaboration with CCE related projects.
Features added to the CCE web site (http://ccelter.sio.ucsd.edu) include a site dynamic mapper consisting of a web interface to the GMT plotting tool. In addition, a grid station converter was developed in order to make available the standard sampling grid line and station given any latitude and longitude. The eventlogger system designed last year was further developed and deployed on a series of CalCOFI cruises as well as on the first CCE Process Cruise in May 2006. During this cruise, support included insuring daily web access to satellite imagery. After the cruise, a cruise web page is being developed and populated in order to collect cruise information and data. This serves as a data focal point while best practices, data procedures, and the local database are designed. In addition, identifying and gathering of long-term data for the Trends project took place.
Local cross-project work focused on cruise glossaries, eventlogs, and dataset dictionaries. As Ocean Informatics participants, a cross project Matlab User Group was initiated drawing together a variety of participants including programmers, technicians, and graduate students. An Infrastructure Studies presentation was made to the Integrative Oceanography Division in collaboration with a social science project and posters (Ocean Informatics; SCCOOS Data System: A Real-Time Data Acquisition, Storage and Access System) presented at the Marine Monitoring Conference 24-25 April hosted by Aquarium of the Pacific. KBaker became a UCSD Science Studies Affiliate (http://sciencestudies.ucsd.edu/) and collaboration with science studies projects (http://interoperability.ucsd.edu) and participants continued with a focus on development of the notion of Infrastructure Studies. A student from sociology worked at SIO over the summer with a focus on the development of the eventlogger system. As LTER Network participants, we continued communications via feature article and good read submissions to the Databits Newsletter. A team of five Ocean Informatics participants for PAL & CCE submitted posters (CCE LTER: Information Management (2004-2006); Research in Infrastructure Studies: Social and Organizational Perspectives on Ecological Data Management) and attended the 2006 All Scientists Meeting.
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