Category: Expertise: Data Stewardship

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…