The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) data collection is the result of a collaboration of contributing, targeted, mid-sized ocean biogeochemical programs.
The participating programs all share a common measurement paradigm and they have no common "home" on the web beyond their project-specific web pages. This data collection residing at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is a first attempt at a unified biogeochemistry data portal. In time, it is our goal to build a common interface which will provide unified access to the OCB database as well as the U.S. JGOFS database co-located at WHOI.
As resources become available in the future, it is our intention that additional programs will be identified and given the opportunity to contribute to this federated library of ocean science data.
To access the full collection of data contributed so far from the participating projects, go to http://ocb.whoi.edu/jg/dir.
Original data may also still be available from the main web sites associated with each of the participating projects. Access project web sites by visiting the appropriate links in the right column of this page.
Coordinated data management efforts can play a key role in facilitating scientific research. The OCB DMO is building an online object-oriented relational database of data from selected ocean carbon and biogeochemistry themed projects. The OCB DMO will work with the lead PI and data managers from the participating projects to add their data to the growing OCB Data Collection.
The OCB data collection is organized by project. Within each project, data entities are organized by cruise, and then by data type. As many data entities as possible will be loaded into a relational database, the backend of which is the JGOFS Distributed Data Management System (DDMS). More information about the JGOFS DDMS »
The online relational database supports dynamic interaction with the data allowing users to customize subsets of data and download data in a variety of formats.