Scientific information model for deepsea mapping and sampling |
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| Authors: | Dawn J Wright Christopher G Fox Andra M Bobbitt |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geosciences , Oregon State University , Wilkinson Hall 104, Corvallis, Oregon, 97331–5506, USA E-mail: wrightd@bcc.orst.edu;2. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory , Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center , Newport, Oregon, USA;3. Department of Geosciences , Oregon State University , Corvallis, Oregon, USA;4. Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies , Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center , Newport, Oregon, USA |
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| Abstract: | The Vents Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory is an interdisciplinary research initiative that brings together scientists from a wide range of disciplines, including geophysics, geology, physical oceanography, chemistry, and biology. Each discipline collects a variety of data types of varying structures and requiring intercomparison. The challenge of scientific information management is thus approached with a view of supporting data from multiple survey, mapping, and sampling tools and subject to multiple levels of interpretation. The ultimate objective is a system that integrates the functions of data storage, selective retrieval, display, and archiving. The results of our ongoing efforts in scientific information modeling and management have produced a relational database in which marine geological, geophysical, chemical, and biological observations can be accessed by any investigator. |
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| Keywords: | GIS information management and modeling interdisciplinary science mapping and exploration seafloor spreading |
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