A community meeting (a repeat of a recent Ocean Sciences Town Hall Meeting to enable broader participation) to learn more about a new NSF EarthCube-funded Research Coordination Network for Marine Ecological Time Series (METS-RCN) tasked with bringing together members of the oceanographic, data science, and informatics communities to build consensus on key components of a FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data model for METS, including common vocabularies, metadata reporting standards, and data citation practices; engage broader METS data users (e.g., modelers, educators, decision makers) to facilitate broader applications of METS data; and build community capacity for METS data analysis, statistical methods, and data-model integration. This town hall meeting will also highlight a concurrent EuroSea-funded project led by members of the RCN leadership team focused on developing a pilot biogeochemical time series data product to help visualize spatial patterns and trends across ocean basins.
AGENDA: FAIR data solutions to support a global observing system of marine ecological time series
1) Overview of METS RCN (Heather Benway, OCB/WHOI)
2) What is FAIR and why do we need it in ocean science? (Adam Shepherd, BCO-DMO)
3) Shipboard time series use cases
3a) Carbon-relevant biogeochemical EOVs in a time series data product (Nico Lange, GEOMAR)
3b) Hawai’i Ocean Time-series (HOT) parameter mapping to Climate & Forecast (CF) vocabulary (Fernando Carvalho-Pacheco, UH)
3c) ENVRI-FAIR and Intelligent query dissolved oxygen use case (Justin Buck, NOC)
4) Q&A and open discussion
May 9, 2022 2:00-3:30 pm EDT
Learn more: https://www2.whoi.edu/site/mets-rcn/