ESS-DIVE visited Stanford in December 2017 to meet with the SLAC SFA team, and the DOE university project “A Multiscale Approach to Modeling Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling within a High Elevation Watershed” led by Kate Maher. The ESS-DIVE team briefed the two projects on their latest developments and plans, and had an in-depth discussion on their data needs and plans.

Deb Agarwal presented a talk on ESS-DIVE at the AGU Fall Meeting, 2017 in New Orleans USA. The talk was titled “Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) – A New U.S. DOE Data Archive” in the session “Earth and Environmental Data Repositories: Considerations for Choosing the Most Appropriate II.”

The abstract can be viewed at the AGU scientific program.

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The CDIAC data archive ceases operation at the end of September 2017. The data collected over 30 years of CDIAC operation is transitioning to new archives. ESS-DIVE is managing the transition, and is hosting an interim version of the CDIAC website that provides access to the CDIAC data. If you have any questions about ESS-DIVE or the data transition, contact ess-dive-support@lbl.gov.

The new archive for the CDIAC data will be ESS-DIVE, except in the specific cases mentioned below. The Oceanic Trace Gas data have been transitioned to the new Ocean Carbon Data System (OCADS) operated by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) at https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/ocads/. The Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) data are being transitioned to Cal Tech at http://www.tccon.caltech.edu/. HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) data are transitioning to the NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory at https://www.eol.ucar.edu/data-software.

ESS-DIVE visited the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) in July 2017 to meet with the CDIAC team, and several of the ESS projects. The trip provided an opportunity for the ESS-DIVE team to brief ORNL personnel on the archive, discuss the transition of CDIAC data and services in depth, and discuss needs and plans with ESS project teams at ORNL. The ESS-DIVE team also met with the DOE Office of Science, Technology and Innovation (OSTI) to discuss strategic partnership opportunities for improved citation and search of ESS-DIVE data and code.

ESS-DIVE was featured in a recent Berkeley Lab news article titled “New Data Archive aims to amplify Ecosystem Research”.

“As environmental scientists move towards understanding earth systems at greater resolution than ever before, it’s critical that they have access to needed data sets. Yet much of these data are not archived, publicly available, or collected in a standardized format, due to the multiple challenges of coordinating efforts across independent research groups and institutions worldwide. Now researchers at Berkeley Lab are taking action to address these challenges. Thanks to $3.6 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Office of Science, the Lab’s Computing Sciences and Earth & Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) are partnering on a three-year project to develop an archive that will serve as a repository for hundreds of DOE-funded research projects.”

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