Managing Digital Data Collections for the Earth & Ocean Sciences: Geoinformatics for Geochemistry and the Marine Geoscience Data System

智力优势：这项研究将哥伦比亚大学拉蒙特·多尔蒂地球天文台的海洋地球科学的主要地球化学数据库操作整合到一个完全集成的管理系统中，称为地球化学所需的地球信息学计划。这项工作使联合努力能够在目前不同的努力之间建立实质性的协同作用。它将加强现有网上数据库的互操作性，并使该方案能够在人员配置、教育和外联以及人员配置方面实现可持续性和规模经济。更广泛的影响：这项工作的更广泛的影响是加强海洋地球科学研究的基础设施，并由于各种不同的数据集易于组合和可视化而使对地球和海洋科学有基本的新理解。新的管理结构允许公众和科学人员普遍获取支持地球和海洋科学研究和教育的全球数据汇编。

Intellectual Merit: This research combines major geochemical database operations for the marine geosciences at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University into a fully integrated management system called the Geoinformatics for Geochemistry Program. The work allows the combined efforts to build on substantial synergies between the presently disparate efforts. It will enhance interoperability of the present web accessible database and allows the program to achieve both sustainability and economies of scale in terms of staffing, education and outreach, and staffing. Broader Impacts: Broader impacts of the work are to enhance the infrastructure for research in the marine geosciences and allow fundamental new understandings in the Earth and Ocean Sciences due to the ease of combining and visualizing various disparate data sets. The new management structure allows universal public and scientific access to global data compilations that support research and education in the Earth and Ocean Sciences.