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Project Partners

NASA has provided funding for the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics (ORNL DAAC) to develop the DADDI system. The Canadian Cryospheric Information Network (CCIN) is also an active partner providing data and tools for the project.

NSIDC is the lead organization responsible for overall project management and will host the final data system. Scientists at NSIDC advise on the science problem, help build links to the relevant communities, and offer perspectives on data and system needs. NSIDC provides sea ice, permafrost, and other cryospheric data related to Arctic coastal processes as well as expertise in spatial data search and visualization in polar regions.

ORNL DAAC is the NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) focused on biogeochemical dynamics within ecosystems. Data sets hosted at the ORNL DAAC contain observations over a range of temporal and spatial scales. At one extreme, some data sets contain a few variables measured regularly in a large number of places. At the other extreme, some data sets contain a large number of variables, representing the dynamics of important biogeochemical processes, measured for a limited period (from seasons to years) in a few locations (intensive field campaign data). For the DADDI project, the ORNL DAAC will provide tools for harvesting, indexing, and searching metadata describing arctic coastal processes. The actual data will be hosted at a number of different institutions, with the DADDI project tools providing a central location for searching these data sets.

SEDAC is the NASA DAAC focused on human-environment interactions, operated by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. SEDAC will provide access to selected arctic social science data, including data on population distribution and administrative boundaries. SEDAC will also host the initial user workshop, contribute arctic human dimensions metadata, and help design a distributed data access and visualization system. If third-year funding is received, SEDAC will help implement distributed data access and visualization services, drawing on its capabilities for geospatial data delivery via open standards.

CCIN is a collaborative partnership between the Canadian Federal Government (Canadian Space Agency, Meteorological Service of Canada, Natural Resources Canada), University of Waterloo and the private sector (Noetix Research Inc.) to provide the data and information management infrastructure for the Canadian cryospheric community. The main objective of the CCIN is to enhance awareness and access to Canadian cryospheric information and related data. For the DADDI project, CCIN will provide access to Canadian cryospheric data related to Arctic Coastal Processes.

Collaborators

To ensure broad relevance and usability DADDI is working closely with several interdisciplinary arctic research and data activities.

• The International Polar Year Data and Information Service (IPYDIS) is an international federation of data centers, archives, and networks working to ensure proper stewardship of IPY and related data.
• The Arctic Coastal Dynamics (ACD) project works to improve understanding of circum-arctic coastal dynamics as a function of environmental forcing, coastal geology and cryology and morphodynamic behavior. ACD is closely affiliated with the IPY Arctic Circum-Polar Coastal Observatory Network (ACCO-Net), a proposed coordinated monitoring program.
• The Study of Arctic Environmental Change (SEARCH) is an interagency effort to understand the nature, extent, and future development of the system-scale change presently seen in the Arctic.
• The Russian-American Initiative on Shelf-Land Environments in the Arctic (RAISE) project facilitates collaborative research between Russian and American scientists in order to understand processes and events in terrestrial, shelf, and ocean environments in northern Eurasia in the context of a globally changing environment.

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