Category: Expertise: Data Stewardship
May 14, 2016
Scientific Stewardship in the Open Data and Big Data Era - Roles and Responsibilities
As the volume of environmental data expands exponentially, and as the ways data are preserved and delivered evolve rapidly, organizations charged with managing these datasets…
Mar 14, 2016
Innovations in Information Management and Access for Assessments
The Third National Climate Assessment (NCA3), released in May 2014, provided a comprehensive assessment of the impacts of climate change in the United States. The…
Mar 16, 2015
A Unified Framework for Measuring Stewardship Practices Applied to Digital Environmental Datasets
Collecting, curating, and delivering accurate, reliable environmental data sets is a difficult task. But the work doesn’t stop there. Ensuring that data sets are adequately…
May 16, 2014
Third National Climate Assessment
The White House released the third National Climate Assessment today. Mandated at least every four years by the Global Change Research Act of 1990, the…
Feb 10, 2013
Global Land Surface Temperature
Society expects openness and transparency in climate science to have a greater understanding of the certainty regarding how climate has changed and how it will…
Feb 10, 2013
Geostationary Surface Albedo
Surface albedo is the fraction of incoming solar radiation reflected by the land surface, and therefore is a sensitive indicator of environmental changes. Its value…