U.S. JGOFS Data Management

美国全球海洋通量联合研究项目（U.S. JGOFS）和全球生态系统动力学项目（GLOBEC）在其生命周期结束时，将积累大量关于世界海洋生物地球化学和生态学的数据库。将十多年来在许多地方收集的数百项实验和数十万项观测结果转化为一份关于海洋如何在全球生态中发挥主导作用的声明，是一项艰巨的任务。在完成最终的建模和合成之前，必须收集和组织庞大的数据库，进行质量控制检查，并进行重新分配。这就是首席研究员和他的同事们将要做的。他们将组织一个用户友好的数据管理系统，使美国JGOFS-GLOBEC科学家能够以标准化、组织良好的格式快速提交和检索高质量的数据，同时这两项计划仍在进行中。然后，每个调查人员都可以访问其他调查人员在任何给定地点或任何给定巡航上收集的天气数据。在更大的范围内，生物地球化学和生态建模者将能够访问预先连接的数据库，以研究全球尺度的海洋现象。这样的数据管理工作对于最大限度地发挥大型多研究者、多学科研究项目（如美国JGOFS和GLOBEC）的科学效益非常重要。

9417423 Livingston By the end of their lifetimes, the U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (U.S. JGOFS) and Global Ecosystems Dynamics (GLOBEC) will have accumulated enormous databases on the biogeochemistry and ecology of the world ocean. Translating the results of hundreds of experiments and hundreds of thousands of observations, collected at many places and over more than a decade of time, into a statement of how the ocean functions as a dominant component in global ecology is a daunting task. Before the final modeling and synthesis can be done, the immense data base must be collected and organized, subjected to quality control checks, and organized for redistribution. That is what the principal investigator and his colleagues on this grant will do. They will organize a user-friendly data management system enabling individual U.S. JGOFS-GLOBEC scientists to submit and retrieve high-quality data rapidly and in a standardized, well-organized format while these two initiatives are still underway. Each investigator will then have access to synoptic data collected by other investigators at any given site or on any given cruise. On a grander scale and extending beyond the lifetimes of the two initiatives, biogeochemical and ecological modelers will be able to access pre-linked database for studies of global- scale ocean phenomena. Data management efforts such as this one are important for maximizing the scientific benefit derivable from large multi-investigator, multidisciplinary research projects like U.S. JGOFS and GLOBEC.