Category: Expertise: Data Stewardship
Ge Peng
Satellite Product Characterization, Calibration and Validation
Dr. Ge Peng joined NCICS as a Research Scholar in March 2012. She is currently leading the development of climate normals of Arctic sea ice…
Lou Vasquez
Scientific Algorithms
Lou Vasquez joined NCICS as a Research Scholar in March 2012 and has helped develop various satellite-based datasets and evaluation processes. He was also part…
Scott Stevens
Scientific data analysis
Mr. Scott Stevens joined NCICS as a Research Associate in March 2010, where he has engaged in various data analysis and research-to-operations projects, as well…
Jared Rennie
Meterological Applications, Large scale Datasets
Jared Rennie is a research meteorologist at NCICS, which is co-located with NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) in Asheville, NC. He joined NCICS…
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…