Announcement of Ocean Sciences Town Hall - NODC: An Ocean of Data on your Desktop
Invitation to a Town Hall at the 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando
National Oceanographic Data Center: An Ocean of Data on your Desktop
March 5, 12:00-1:00 pm, Rm W103
Dr. Margarita Conkright Gregg, new Director of NODC, will hold a Town Hall at the upcoming Ocean Sciences meeting.
The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) is the national repository and dissemination facility for global oceanographic data and information which acquires and preserves a historical record of the Earth's changing environment to be used for operational applications and ocean climate research. The mission of NODC is data stewardship to ensure that global oceanographic data sets, collected at great cost, are maintained in a permanent archive that is easily accessible to the world science community and other users. NODC maintains and updates a national ocean archive with environmental data acquired from domestic and foreign activities and produces products and research from these data which help monitor global environmental changes. These data include physical, biological and chemical measurements derived from in situ oceanographic observations, satellite remote sensing of the oceans, and ocean model simulations. A key requirement for meeting NODC’s responsibility is to understand the requirements of its data customers. The purposes of this meeting are to develop the requirements for NODC’s data and information products, to begin work with the scientific community on how to meet increasing demands for open access to data, and to receive community input as NODC reviews its strategic priorities.
For additional information, please contact Margarita Gregg (phone: 301-713-3270 or email: margarita.gregg@noaa.gov)
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Margarita Conkright Gregg, Ph.D.
Director, National Oceanographic Data Center
1315 East-West Highway, Rm 4820
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301) 713-3270
Email: Margarita.Gregg@noaa.gov