Ecological Science to benefit from UNM data initiative :: The University of New Mexico
lterrat's bookmarks 2016-12-08
Summary:
"Because these small projects do not have the resources or technical expertise to link with national data repositories, there is a danger that data collected by these projects will not be documented or curated appropriately and therefore be lost forever to science (e.g., dark data).
To address this problem, investigators at The University of New Mexico’s Center for Research in Ecological Science and Technology (CREST) were recently awarded $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a prototype National Ecological Data Center. The 3-year grant, titled 'Environmental Data Initiative' (EDI), involves investigators from UNM’s Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin and the University of California-Santa Barbara."