Data Help Desk at AGU 2020
DECEMBER 7-11 & 14-16, 2020 ONLINE
The Data Help Desk at AGU2020 (sponsored by EarthCube & supported by ESIP & AGU) will connect researchers with data experts to enhance research and make data and software more open and FAIR. Follow the action on Twitter.
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Do you have data-related questions? Are you looking to make your data and/or software open and FAIR? Are you interested in tools and resources for working with your data or for finding data to reuse? The Data Help Desk is here for you!
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- Follow the action on Twitter HERE.
- Ask Data Questions: Share your questions any time from December 7th-11th and 14th-16th via Twitter using the hashtag #DataHelpDesk. Our team of Earth science data professionals has decades of experience in informatics and in many scientific domains and specializes in topics like finding, sharing, analyzing, publishing, and citing data.
- Watch Tool Demos & Tutorials: We will direct you to helpful tutorials and demos throughout the week that will highlight tools and resources you can use to manage your data and enhance your research. Follow #DataHelpDesk to hear about these!
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Contributed Demos & Tutorials
Learn how to use the NASAWorldview imagery mapping & visualization application to explore global Earth science data imagery. Contributor: NASA Earthdata
A new way to visualize Argo's biogeochemical data using Argovis. Contributor: Argovis
Overview of the DOE's online archive for earth and environmental data: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE). Contributor: ESS-DIVE
Overview of the resources and tools available on the NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network) website. Contributor: NEON.
Learn about the data repository and curation services offered by the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI). Contributor: EDI
Find tips for data management & sources for training on data management topics. Contributor: Nancy Hoebelheinrich (Knowledge Motifs LLC).
Learn about Practical Data Management, a module of the NCEAS Learning Hub. Contributor: NCEAS
Learn about data citation best practices and the how the Make Data Count project is supporting data citations for increased credit and attribution. Contributor: DataONE
Learn how DataONE supports easy access and discovery of data across a network of Earth and environmental science data repositories. Contributor: DataONE
Rockd is a popular mobile app that draws on community data resources to help you explore, capture, and share your geological surroundings. Contributor: UWMacrostrat.
New Earth science data resources available to help users find, access, use, and visualize NASA Earth science data. Contributor: NASA Earthdata
What About Model Data? Determining Best Practices for Preservation and Replicability. Contributor: EarthCube Model Data RCN
Learn how to search for, find, and download data through ESS-DIVE, and follow along in the data upload and publication process. Contributor: ESS-DIVE
Open Altimetry is an exploration and visualization tool for data from the NASA ICESat and ICESat-2 satellites. Contributor: OpenAltimetry
ERDDAP is a data server that gives you a simple, consistent way to download subsets of gridded and tabular scientific datasets in common file formats and make graphs and maps. Learn more: here
Cloud-based data tools for research, collaboration, and workflow documentation in the aquatic sciences: JupyterHub and HydroShare. Contributor: CUAHSI
Earth and Space Sciences for the Future – Perspectives from Journals. Contributor: Peter Fox, Editor-in-Chief of AGU Earth and Space Science.
Learn about UNAVCO's data tools. Contributor: UNAVCO
Learn how to share and search astromaterials sample data with the newly-released Astromaterials Data Repository. Contributor: Astromaterials Data System
Repository & metadata aggregator lightning talks from Data Help Desk at ESA20. Contributors: Arctic Data Center, CUAHSI, DataONE, EDI, iDigBio, NEON, Neotoma
Data Discovery Studio indexes over 1.6 million dataset descriptions from 40+ geoscience data repositories and community contributions. Contributor: Data Discovery Studio
Overview of ezEML, a form-based, do-it-yourself online application for the creation of metadata in the Ecological Metadata Language (EML). Contributor: Environmental Data Initiative (EDI)
Learn about StraboSpot: a tool for collecting & managing a variety of geologic field data types. Contributor: StraboSpot.
Brief walk-through of the structure and organization of NEON’s Instrumented Systems data and how you can access it. Contributor: NEON
The Ag Data Commons is a public, government, scientific research data catalog and repository available to help the agricultural research community share and discover research data funded by the USDA. Contributor: USDA Ag Data Commons
Figshare for Institutions is a next generation, all in one, hosted repository designed for administrators and end users. Contributor: Figshare
HydroShare is repository for sharing, collaborating around, and formally publishing scientific data. Contributor: CUAHSI.
Learn how SGCI serves the science gateway community by sharing experiences & providing services. Contributor: SGCI
Learn about UNAVCO's data services. Contributor: UNAVCO
The EarthChem Library Repository offers researchers a place to archive their geochemical data and receive a DOI for their datasets. Contributor: EarthChem Library
How ontologies can help you find and understand the data you need. Contributor: Arctic Data Center
Data Management Planning: A full overview of how to approach this, guidance for creating a DMP and a demo of the DMPTool. Contributor: DataONE
Peer-Reviewed Notebooks from the EarthCube Community
- An Interactive GUI for BALTO in a Jupyter notebook (GitHub | Recorded Demo)
- Argovis API exposed in a Python Jupyter notebook: an easy access to Argo profiles, weather events, and gridded products (GitHub)
- Semantic Annotation of Data using JSON Linked Data (GitHub)
- Processing digital elevation data for deep learning models using Keras Spatial (GitHub)
- Vertical Regridding and Remapping (GitHub)
- Scikit-downscale: an open source Python package for scalable climate downscaling (GitHub | Recorded Demo)
- 3D volume rendering of geophysical data using the yt platform (GitHub | Recorded Demo)
- Big Arrays, Fast: Profiling Cloud Storage Read Throughput (GitHub)
- CMIP6 without the interpolation: Grid-native analysis with Pangeo in the cloud (GitHub | Recorded Demo)
- Intake / Pangeo Catalog: Making It Easier To Consume Earth’s Climate and Weather Data Multi-Cloud workflows with Pangeo and Dask Gateway (GitHub | Recorded Demo)
- Jupyter Notebooks, the PmagPy Software Package and the Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC) Database (GitHub | Recorded Demo)
- Jupyter Meets the Earth Community Forum (Full-length recording | Summary)
One-Pagers
QGreenland is a a free GIS package for Greenland: A free mapping tool to support interdisciplinary Greenland-focused research, teaching, decision making, and collaboration. Contributor: QGreenland
Learn about the data repository and curation services offered by the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI). Contributor: EDI
Institutional Data Repositories: An Important Option for Complying with Data Sharing Requirements. Contributor: University of Michigan Library
Science gateways allow science & engineering communities to access shared resources. Learn how SGCI serves the science gateway community by sharing experiences & providing services. Contributor: SGCI
Marine Geoscience Data System (MGDS) is a community-trusted data repository for marine geophysical data products and complementary data related to understanding the formation and evolution of the seafloor and sub-seafloor. Contributor: MGDS
OpenAltimetry is a cyberinfrastructure platform for discovery, access, and visualization of data from NASA's ICESat and ICESat-2 missions. Contributor: OpenAltimetry
Learn how NCEAS conducts transformational science focused on informing solutions that will allow people and nature to thrive. Contributor: NCEAS
The OpenTopography Community Dataspace allows those who are producing small to
moderate sized topographic datasets to archive, sharing, and properly cite their data. Contributor: OpenTopography
Learn basics & tips for use of R, RStudio, and Jupyter Notebooks. Contributor: Shweta Narkar, PhD Student at RPI.
Learn more about Earthchem, SESAR, and the Astromaterials Data System – a one-stop-shop for samples and sample-related data. Contributor: EarthChem
Bringing global oceanic lithology and microfossil data collected by the ocean drilling programs to a single, searchable platform. Contributor: eODP (Extending Ocean Drilling Pursuits)
Learn about the data holdings of CCHDO, a public repository for high-quality repeat CTD and bottle data from GO-SHIP and other programs. Contributor: CCHDO
The Arctic Data Center (ADC) helps the research community reproducibly preserve and discover all products of NSF-funded science in the Arctic, including data, metadata, software, and documents. Contributor: ADC
Find learning resources on topics related to research data skills and data management. Contributor: Data Management Training Clearinghouse
Geoweaver is a web system for composing & executing full-stack deep learning workflows by taking advantage of online spatial data facilities, high-performance computation platforms, and open-source deep learning libraries. Contributor: Geoweaver
Data Discovery Studio indexes over 1.6 million dataset descriptions from 40+ geoscience data repositories and community contributions. Contributor: Data Discovery Studio
Learn about the US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC). Contributor: USAP-DC
Brief presentation on how PIDs can help researchers make their data FAIR and themselves better know. Contributor: Knowledge Motifs.
A brief overview of the EarthCube Research Coordination Network (RCN) project, “What about model data?” Determining Best Practices for Preservation and Replicability. Contributor: What About Model Data RCN
DataONE is a community driven program providing access to data across multiple member repositories, supporting enhanced search and discovery of Earth and environmental data. Contributor: DataONE
Figshare is an all-in-one, hosted repository that helps researchers and institutions make research outputs findable and citable. Contributor: Figshare
The USGS Community for Data Integration (CDI) grows the knowledge base in data integration and management in the Earth sciences. Contributor: CDI
The TDS Jupyter Notebook service helps users discover, access, and visualize THREDDS datasets with Python. Contributor: Unidata
The Paper and the Data: 5 Part Series
Module 1: Introduction. Learn about challenges with accessing data, the AGU Data Position Statement, recommendations from the NAS, updated Journal guidelines, and benefits of sharing data and software. Contributor: AGU/ESIP.
Module 4: Peer Review. Peer review recommendations from AGU and examples. Contributor: AGU/ESIP.
Module 2: Data. Learn about what data should go into a repository, considerations for choosing a repository, and citing data. Contributor: AGU/ESIP.
Module 5: Persistent Identifiers. Learn about persistent identifiers, including ORCID, DOI, and more. Contributor: AGU/ESIP.
Module 3: Software. Learn about what software should go into a repository, software availability statements, considerations for choosing a repository, and citing software. Contributor: AGU/ESIP.
Complete Slides. View slides from the modules that make up “The Paper and The Data: Authors, Reviewers, and Editors Webinar on Updated Journal Practices for Data (and Software).” Contributor: AGU/ESIP.
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