WDC-MARE/PANGAEA Information Service

Within the Integrated Ocean Drilling Project WDC-MARE/PANGAEA® is responsible for the data handling, long-term storage and publication of scientific cruise and post-cruise data of IODP-Mission Specific Platform (MSP) expeditions. WDC-MARE/PANGAEA® is contractor of the ECORD Science Operator (ESO).

 

The Word Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, WDC-MARE is aimed at collecting, scrutinizing, and disseminating data related to global change in the fields of environmental oceanography, marine geology, paleoceanography, and marine biology. It focuses on georeferenced data using the information system PANGAEA®.

 

PANGAEA® Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data is an information system for processing, long-term storage, and publication of heterogeneous georeferenced data related to earth science.

PANGAEA® and the WDC are operated by the Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM, Bremen, Germany) and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI, Bremerhaven, Germany)

 

More information on IODP-MSP data management here

 

 

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