News & Events
2011 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Workshop
Data Management 101 for the Earth Scientist
Don’t let science leave you behind. The proliferation of data from all sources requires today’s scientists to be aware of sound data management practices. In this free half-day workshop, everything the modern data-producing scientist needs to know about data management will be introduced. We...
The Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE - http://dataone.org) is recruiting a post-doctoral associate to work with the Provenance and Scientific Workflows Working Group of DataONE. This is a full-time, 12–month position initially for one year, but renewable pending progress and availability of funds. Applications will be...
The DMP Tool, a collaborative project across seven organizations including DataONE, has now been released. Designed to help researchers learn about data management and write guided Data Management Plans (DMPs), the DMPTool walks researchers through the steps neccesary to create a generic NSF DMP or a DMP targeted to one of six NSF Directorates. You can also save, preview and export your...
DataONE learning modules are now available online. Topics cover data management planning, through data entry and assurance, metadata and analysis. You can download individual modules / slides to incorporate into your lectures.
View the learning modules and let us know what you...
DataONE, which is headquartered at the University of New Mexico (UNM), is recruiting a post-doctoral associate to work with the Data Semantics and Integration Working Group of the DataONE project. This is a full-time, 12 –month position appointment initially for one year, but renewable pending progress and availability of funds. The physical location of where the Post-Doctoral Associate is...
DataONE and colleagues from Indiana University will be running at 3 hr workshop titled "Big Data Means Your Metadata Must Work" at Supercomputing 2011, Seattle, Nov 12-18th. The meeting agenda has yet to be finalized but preliminary information can be found here: http://sc11.supercomputing.org/...
News Report No. 4 (7 July 2011)
William Michener, Amber Budden, and Rebecca Koskela – University of New Mexico; Dave Vieglais – University of Kansas
DataONE continues to make significant progress through the spring and summer of 2011 and is on track to release the first public version of its cyberinfrastructure at the end of 2011. In addition, significant effort has focused on...
Are you preparing a research proposal or initiating a research project? Increasingly, funders are requiring that proposals and funded projects include a comprehensive plan that describes how the data will be effectively managed during the life of the project and beyond.
In an ESA special session a team from DataONE, including researchers from ORNL DAAC, NCEAS and USGS, will introduce...
Individuals from DataONE, ORNL DAAC and USGS will be running a 4 hour workshop at the ESA meeting in Austin TX on data management. Designed with early career scientists in mind, the purpose of this workshop is to give attendees a set of practical tools for organizing and sharing their data through all parts of the research cycle. Topics will include data structure, quality control, data...
In addition to hosting a workshop and special session at the 2011 Ecological Society of America meeting in Austin, TX this August, DataONE will be at booth 605 for the week. Come and visit us to learn more about how DataONE can help meet your research goals, discover some of the new developments in Data Management Planning tools and find out about upcoming DataONE online teaching resources....
DataONE will be holding a one-day, hands-on Implementation Workshop designed to facilitate groups and institutions to publish data as a Member Node within the DataONE federation on Friday, September 30th 2011 at NCEAS in Santa Barbara CA. The DataONE Implementation Workshop immediately...
When: Monday, May 23 -- Friday, June 10, 2011
Where: University of New Mexico, Informatics Training Laboratory
Who: This course is for MS students and professionals with a BS in biology, geology, ecology, or other environmental sciences, environmental engineering, geography or science librarianship
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News Report No. 3 (25 March 2011) – Bill Michener, PI
Spring weather seems to be upon us. This past winter was an especially productive time for DataONE and there are many significant activities to report on including: cyberinfrastructure development, Working Groups, the new DataONE Users Group, and the DataONE External Advisory Board. Notably, DataONE underwent a critical 18-month...
The DataONE 2011 Summer Internship program is now accepting applications. There are 8 positions available with 10 projects to select from. Consider applying or forward to Please forward to interested undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate students. The application deadline is April 8th.
For more information, see our Summer Internship page (...
Reichman, Jones, and Schildhauer write about the technological and sociological challenges and opportunities of an open data model for ecology in Science (http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1197962). The authors discuss the technological approaches to issues of data dispersion,...
Understanding patterns of bird occurrence at continental scales has long been one of eBird's fundamental challenges and has also been a focus of the DataONE Exploration,Visualization and Analysis Working Group. The results of this work are highlighted on the...
News Reports from the DataONE Director’s Chair
“The first year of DataONE” News Report No. 2 (23 August 2010) – Bill Michener, PI
August 2010 marks the end of the first year of DataONE. This milestone is a good time to reflect on where we have been and where we are heading. There is much to report with respect to both the implementation of the cyberinfrastructure and community...
Supercomputer time will help ornithologists make ecological sense of millions of records of bird sightings.
by Emma Marris
Midway through a birding expedition last May off the Louisiana coast, Donna Dittmann lost her footing and broke her leg. Unaware of this, she kept the weight off her swollen ankle while surveying birds the next day at an unnamed islet that was packed with...
Will Satellites and Supercomputers Improve Bird Watching?
Combining high-tech tools with a database of bird sightings may help indicate how climate change is affecting bird movement in the U.S.
By Lauren Morello and Climatewire
Add space satellites and supercomputers to the list of birdwatching tools.
Scientists at Oak Ridge National...
“Welcome to DataONE” News Report No. 1 (25 June 2010) – Bill Michener, PI
Welcome to the first news report from the DataONE Director’s Chair! In this and future reports, my colleagues and I will inform you about DataONE objectives and project status. The project status will include updates on the architecture and its implementation, education and outreach, and DataONE success stories...
DataONE invites applications for summer research internships for undergraduates, graduate students and postgraduate (MS, PhD) students. As part of a larger virtual organization, interns will work in virtual groups of 2-3 with multiple mentors from DataONE, and are not expected to be at the same location or institution as the mentors and other team members. Regular communication (...
A new global data access program will help scientists deal with the ever-increasing amount of information they must access to understand Earth’s living and nonliving systems.
The program, called DataONE, is a global data access and preservation network created by experts at the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII), in partnership with many...
The DataONE initiative has gotten widespread attention through press releases at the University of California, University of New Mexico,...