Big data for ecologists: Highlighting the ORNL DAAC

Conference · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2014

OSTI ID:1136823

Boyer, Alison G ^[1]; Cook, Robert B ^[1]; Devarakonda, Ranjeet ^[1]; Eby, Pete I ^[1]; Thornton, Michele M ^[1]; Thornton, Peter E ^[1]; SanthanaVannan, Suresh K ^[1]; Virdi, Makhan L ^[1]; Wei, Yaxing ^[1]

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1. ORNL

Ecologists are increasingly confronted by questions that can be addressed only by integrating data from numerous sources, often across large geographic areas and broad time periods. The supply of ecological big data is increasing at a rapid pace as researchers are publishing their data sets and large, public science and data infrastructures (such as NEON, DataONE, LTER, & NCEAS) are producing and curating extensive volumes of complex data and metadata. While supply of, and demand for, ecological data is on the rise, many ecologists now face a new challenge in locating and synthesizing the data relevant for their particular question. Here we highlight selected popular big data products applicable to ecological research available from the NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Work for Others (WFO)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1136823
• Resource Relation: Conference: Ecological Society of America, Sacramento, CA, USA, 20140810, 20140810
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English