Connecting Disciplines and Data in Earth and Environmental Synthesis Research: Enabling Interdisciplinary Data Discovery, Integration, and Reuse

Session ID#: 121907

Session Description:
Research in Earth and environmental sciences often requires interdisciplinary science teams to understand and model multi-scale processes. The study of complex environmental processes may involve diverse collections of samples and associated field or laboratory measurements, sensors, remote sensing data, and more. This session aims to bring together domain scientists and informatics professionals to discuss scientific use cases that integrate diverse data resources. Interdisciplinary scientists may report on work that integrates diverse data, and any challenges encountered in data synthesis. Reports of failures and successes are encouraged, as well as community coordination, data standards, and/or infrastructure that have contributed to enabling research data integration across disciplines. We will discuss scientific needs and potential solutions to optimize data discovery, integration, and reuse to efficiently address current and future research challenges.
Co-Organized:
  • B - Biogeosciences
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • ESA: Ecological Society of America -
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1699 General or miscellaneous [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1916 Data and information discovery [INFORMATICS]
1936 Interoperability [INFORMATICS]


Primary Convener:  Joan E Damerow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Lindsay A Powers, US Geological Survey, National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program, Denver, CO, United States, Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Corinna Gries, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joan E Damerow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States