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CIRSS researchers present at the 2014 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting

CIRSS researchers made a strong showing as they shared their expertise in scientific data curation at the 47th annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The meeting was held December 15-19 in San Francisco, California, and is the largest worldwide conference in the geophysical sciences, gathering more than 24,000 Earth and space scientists, educators, students, and other leaders.

Representing CIRSS at this year’s AGU conference were GSLIS Ph.D. students Andrea Thomer, Jacob Jett, and Cheryl Thompson, and master's students Sean Gordon and Chung-Yi (Sophie) Hou. Gordon and Hou presented on work related to their Summer 2014 internships at NCAR as part of the DCERC program.

Poster Presentations:

To the Geoportal and Beyond! Preparing the Earth Observing Laboratory’s Datasets for Inter-Repository Discovery.
S. Gordon, R. Dattore, & S. Williams

Sharing Site-Based Research Data: Standardizing and Packaging for Reuse.
T. DiLauro, J. Jett, S. Gordon & A. Thomer

Linking Geobiology Fieldwork and Data Curation Through Workflow Documentation.
T. DiLauro, J. Jett, S. Gordon, & A. Thomer

Discovering New Global Climate Patterns: Curating a 21-Year High Temporal (Hourly) and Spatial (40km) Resolution Reanalysis Dataset.
C.-Y. Hou, R. Dattore, & G. Peng

Repository Profiles for Atmospheric and Climate Sciences: Capabilities and Trends in Data Services.
C. Thompson, C.-Y. Hou, & C. Palmer

NCAR Global Climate Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation (CFDDA) Hourly 40 km Reanalysis: a high-resolution dynamically downscaled climatography. (winner of the AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award)
G. Peng, C.-Y. Hou, D. Rife, & R. Dattore

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