Collaborations
“Data have no value or meaning in isolation. They exist within a knowledge infrastructure – an ecology of people, practices, technologies, institutions, material objects, and relationships.” (Christine L. Borgman, 2015)
EarthChem collaborates and partners broadly with members of the science community, with research data and analytical facilities, and with community initiatives: The list below provides a summary of funded and unfunded collaborations. Collaboration with CUAHSI (J. Bales), Utah State University (J. Horsburgh, D. Tarboton), and Pennsylvania State University (to establish the coordinating hub of the Critical-Zone Collaborative Network to provide cyberinfrastructure, data management, and community services that support the Critical Zone Thematic Clusters. Collaboration with OFM-Research (M. Ghiorso), California Institute of Technology (P. Antoshechkina), and South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (G. Ustunisik, R. Nielsen) to integrate data resources available at EarthChem with thermodynamic and geodynamic modeling capabilities found in the ENKI software framework to support research and education for the volcanology, geochemistry, and petrology (VGP) community. Collaboration with to develop the Throughput Annotation Engine (TAE) as a solution to the challenge of managing interdisciplinary workflows by providing multiple points of entry to access, annotate and interact with data, and to link code, data, publications, or other elements to one another.
Collaboration with Consortium for Ocean Leadership (D. Fils) and University of Minnesota (A. Noren) to develop a federated data infrastructure that will ensure optimal access and re-usability of the data generated through drilling and coring projects.
Multi-disciplinary collaboration with the University of Arizona (R. Walls), University of Kansas (D. Vieglais), University of California Berkeley (N. Davies, J. Deck, J. Kunze), Open Context (S. & E. Kansa), and the Smithsonian Institution (C. Meyers) to develop a national digital infrastructure that will provide services for globally unique, consistent, and convenient identification of material samples; metadata about them; and linking them to other samples, derived data, and research results published in the literature. Collaboration with Erin DiMaggio (Penn State University) and Sara Mana (Salem State University) to compile East African Rift tephra data in PetDB and contribute to testing and improving software tools for data ingestion. Collaboration with Marcus Bursik (University at Buffalo, PI of Tephra 2020 Workshop) and Stephen Kuehn (Concord University), member of the Tephra 2020 Working Group and PI of the THROUGHPUT project (NSF EAR-1740669), to implement data best practices for the tephra community at EarthChem. Collaboration with Basil Tikoff (University of Wisconsin) to implement IGSN in StraboSpot, and explore use of StraboSpot technology for PetDB visualization.
Collaboration with Adam Mansur (Smithsonian Institution) to improve APIs for registering museum samples and to facilitate compilation of geochemical data for mantle xenolith samples at NMNH.
Collaboration with Anne Grunow (Ohio State University) to compile data for Antarctic samples in PetDB. Collaboration with Janet Schaefer (Alaska Volcano Observatory) to integrate geochemical data in the GeoDIVA database of the Alaska Volcano Observatory with the EarthChem Portal.
Collaboration with Matt Jones to make SESAR sample metadata discoverable via DataONE Search.
Development of schema.org approaches for SESAR landing pages to describe samples in alignment with the GeoCodes vocabularies.
Collaboration with Tim Rawling (AuScope), Bent McInnes (Curtin University), and Lesley Wyborn (Australian National University) to establish a global initiative to develop international data standards and network for geochemistry.
Network Hub: Enabling, Supporting, and Communicating Critical Zone Research (NSF-2012593)
A data-driven modeling infrastructure to support research and education in volcanology, geochemistry and petrology (EarthCube Data Capabilities, NSF-2026916)
Reducing Time-To-Science in the Earth Sciences: Annotations to foster convergence, inclusion, and credit (EarthCube Data Capabilities, NSF-1928333)
Open Core Data: Transformative Data Infrastructure for Integrating and Accessing Scientific Drilling and Coring Data (NSF-1550887)
Internet of Samples: Toward an Interdisciplinary Cyberinfrastructure for Material Samples (CSSI Frameworks, NSF-2004839)
EARThD Project (NSF-1753734. NSF-1753738)
Tephra Best Practices (NSF-1846400)
StraboSpot (NSF-1639748)
Mantle Xenoliths & SESAR Registration API
US Polar Rock Repository (NSF 1643713)
Geochemical Data for Alaska Volcanics
DataONE
GeoCodes/Project P419
AuScope Geochemistry Network
Team
The EarthChem Team is a diverse group of Earth scientists, computer scientists, data curators, software engineers, and application developers, who work together to develop and operate data systems and services that best support the evolving research needs of the Earth, ocean, and environmental science community. EarthChem is a collaborative effort between the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, the City College of New York, Kansas University, and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and is funded by the US National Science Foundation. EarthChem Systems are developed and operated by the Geoinformatics Research Group at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and are part of the Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance IEDA. Heading the “CCNY Internship Program” and “Educating the Next Generation of Data Scientists: CCNY Computer Science Masters Program” LEPR & traceDs: data curation & system improvements Updating and integrating the NAVDAT data collection into EarthChem
Kerstin Lehnert
Lucia Profeta
Hannah Sweets
Saebyul Choe
Peng Ji
Juan David Figueroa
Sean Cao
Sara Robinson
Karin Block
Michael Grossberg
Gokce Ustunisik
Roger Nielsen
Douglas Walker
