US GLOBEC: Program Services and Data Management for Phase III of the Northwest Atlantic Georges Bank Program

9806381wiebe美国全球海洋生态系统动力学计划（U.S. GLOBEC）的主要目标是了解在空间和时间上控制海洋动物关键种群种群动态的潜在物理和生物过程。作为美国GLOBEC的一部分，美国GLOBEC乔治海岸项目是一个大型的多学科、多年的海洋学项目。目的是了解乔治海岸的主要物种——鳕鱼、黑线鳕和两种浮游动物——的种群动态，了解它们与自然环境的耦合以及它们的捕食者和猎物。项目服务和数据管理办公室负责为科研人员（和项目）提供基本的公共服务、后勤支持和数据管理，因为他们进行实地研究，分析个人努力的数据，并将结果与其他研究组成部分的结果相结合。在第三阶段，该办事处将管理来自大约75名科学调查人员的数据集（CTD、生物量、气象、卫星、模型结果等），并通过基于万维网的联机数据管理系统提供这些数据集；与主要研究人员一起进行数据质量控制；维护严格定义的字段名称的库存和程序辞典；支助外地行动（估计在1999年进行25次巡航）；复制和分发项目文件，包括巡航和数据报告，以及数据获取程序和协议；确保向国家数据中心提交数据；通过提供新的、在线的、基于网络的显示工具，支持和鼓励数据综合；促进项目、国家和国际数据和信息交流。

9806381WiebeThe primary objective of the U.S. GLOBal ocean ECosystem dynamics program (U.S. GLOBEC) is to understand the underlying physical and biological processes that control the population dynamics of key populations of marine animals in space and time. As part of U.S. GLOBEC, the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Program is a large multi-disciplinary multi-year oceanographic effort. The goal is to understand the population dynamics of key species on Georges Bank - Cod, Haddock, and two species of zooplankton - in terms of their coupling to the physical environment and in terms of their predators and prey. The Program Service and Data Management Office is responsible for providing the basic common services, logistical support, and data management required by the scientific investigators (and the Program) as they conduct their field research, analyze the data from their individual efforts, and integrate the results with those from other research components. During the Phase III, the office will manage data sets (CTD, biomass, meteorological, satellite, model results, etc.) from an estimated seventy-five scientific investigators and make these available via an on-line, World Wide Web based, data management system; work with principal investigators on data quality control; maintain an inventory and program thesaurus of strictly defined field names; support field operations (estimated to be 25 cruises in 1999); reproduce and distribute program documentation including cruise and data reports, and data acquisition procedures and protocols; ensure submission of data to national data centers; support and encourage data synthesis by providing new, on-line, web-based display tools; and facilitate program, national, and international data and information exchange..