IN51A:
Darth Data: Awaken the Forces to Rescue Old Data for New Discoveries! I Posters

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Session ID#: 14148

Session Description:
Research and discovery in the natural sciences, particularly for documenting longitudinal changes in our planet, is empowered by gathering, mining, and reusing observational data. However, as researchers increasingly realise that much of our 20th Century and older scientific record is no longer accessible and funding for activity in data rescue has steadily increased.

However data cannot be rescued for the sake of the data alone. What are the question or problems that need to be answered with this data? In order to continue to attract funding it is critical that we show tangible value derived from this rescued data.

This session solicits papers from those, who have rescued dark data and ensured its sustainable preservation. Individual case studies are welcome, particularly those that demonstrate new scientific discoveries from the rescued data. Papers on data rescue methodologies will be accepted, especially those that show how tangible value is demonstrated to funders.

Primary Convener:  Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Conveners:  G Garrett Campbell, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and David W Gallaher, University of Colorado Boulder, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  David W Gallaher, University of Colorado Boulder, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States and G Garrett Campbell, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  David W Gallaher, University of Colorado Boulder, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Index Terms:

1912 Data management, preservation, rescue [INFORMATICS]
1916 Data and information discovery [INFORMATICS]
1930 Data and information governance [INFORMATICS]
6304 Benefit-cost analysis [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Reviving legacy clay mineralogy data and metadata through the IEDA-CCNY Data Internship Program (185873)
Robert Vance Palumbo1, Cody Randel1, Asra Ismail1, Karin A Block2, Yue Cai3, Megan Carter Orlando4, Sidney R Hemming5 and Kerstin Lehnert5, (1)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (2)City College of New York, New York, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (4)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Rescuing the Cahoon Mine drill cores: Opportunities for modern mapping of the ca. 1.7 Ga Freedom Formation in southern Wisconsin (166172)
Valerie Stanley, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Madison, United States and Esther Stewart, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Madison, WI, United States
The Polar Rock Repository: Rescuing Polar Collections for New Research (182173)
Anne Grunow, Polar Rock Repository, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States
America’s Changing Energy Landscape - USGS National Coal Resources Data System Changes to National Energy Resources Data System. (176170)
Joseph Andrew East II, USGS Headquarters, Reston, VA, United States
Closet to Cloud: The online archiving of tape-based continuous NCSN seismic data from 1993-2005 (184416)
Douglas S Neuhauser1, Mario A Aranha2, William M Kohler3 and David Oppenheimer3, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Seismology, Menlo Park, CA, United States
How to make old and dense gravity data consistent with the latest gravity data? --Example in Japan-- (127944)
Takayuki Miyazaki, Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan
Historical And Modern Deep-Sea Transmissometry Data In World Ocean Database – Its Status, Challenges, And Utilization. (123810)
Alexey V Mishonov, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States; National Centers for Environmental Information (formerly NODC), NESDIS/NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Mary Jo Richardson, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Wilford D Gardner, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, United States and Tim Boyer, National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, MD, United States
PARTICLE MASS IN DEEP-WATER BENTHIC NEPHELOID LAYERS: A GLOBAL SYNTHESIS (174784)
Wilford D Gardner, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, United States, Mary Jo Richardson, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States and Alexey V Mishonov, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Tropical Cloud Imagery: 1966-1973: Possible extension of the Highly Reflective Cloud Atlas to earlier years: 1966 to 1970. (123084)
Marisa Lauren Merola, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, Paul Lemieux III, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, United States and G. Garrett Campbell, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

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