HR: 0800h
AN: T31B-0505    [Abstracts]
TI: Ridge 2000 Data Management System
AU: * Goodwillie, A M
EM: andrewg@ldeo.columbia.edu
AF: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 United States
AU: Carbotte, S M
T31B-0505 AF: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 United States
AU: Arko, R A
T31B-0505 AF: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 United States
AU: Haxby, W F
T31B-0505 AF: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 United States
AU: Ryan, W B
T31B-0505 AF: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 United States
AU: Chayes, D N
T31B-0505 AF: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 United States
AU: Lehnert, K A
T31B-0505 AF: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 United States
AU: Shank, T M
T31B-0505 AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology Dept, MS 33, Woods Hole, MA 02543 United States
AB: Hosted at Lamont by the marine geoscience Data Management group, mgDMS, the NSF-funded Ridge 2000 electronic database, http://www.marine-geo.org/ridge2000/, is a key component of the Ridge 2000 multi-disciplinary program. The database covers each of the three Ridge 2000 Integrated Study Sites: Endeavour Segment, Lau Basin, and 8-11N Segment. It promotes the sharing of information to the broader community, facilitates integration of the suite of information collected at each study site, and enables comparisons between sites. The Ridge 2000 data system provides easy web access to a relational database that is built around a catalogue of cruise metadata. Any web browser can be used to perform a versatile text-based search which returns basic cruise and submersible dive information, sample and data inventories, navigation, and other relevant metadata such as shipboard personnel and links to NSF program awards. In addition, non-proprietary data files, images, and derived products which are hosted locally or in national repositories, as well as science and technical reports, can be freely downloaded. On the Ridge 2000 database page, our Data Link allows users to search the database using a broad range of parameters including data type, cruise ID, chief scientist, geographical location. The first Ridge 2000 field programs sailed in 2004 and, in addition to numerous data sets collected prior to the Ridge 2000 program, the database currently contains information on fifteen Ridge 2000-funded cruises and almost sixty Alvin dives. Track lines can be viewed using a recently- implemented Web Map Service button labelled Map View. The Ridge 2000 database is fully integrated with databases hosted by the mgDMS group for MARGINS and the Antarctic multibeam and seismic reflection data initiatives. Links are provided to partner databases including PetDB, SIOExplorer, and the ODP Janus system. Improved inter-operability with existing and new partner repositories continues to be strengthened. One major effort involves the gradual unification of the metadata across these partner databases. Standardised electronic metadata forms that can be filled in at sea are available from our web site. Interactive map-based exploration and visualisation of the Ridge 2000 database is provided by GeoMapApp, a freely-available Java(tm) application being developed within the mgDMS group. GeoMapApp includes high-resolution bathymetric grids for the 8-11N EPR segment and allows customised maps and grids for any of the Ridge 2000 ISS to be created. Vent and instrument locations can be plotted and saved as images, and Alvin dive photos are also available.
UR: http://www.marine-geo.org
DE: 0525 Data management
DE: 3017 Hydrothermal systems (0450, 1034, 3616, 4832, 8135, 8424)
DE: 3035 Midocean ridge processes
DE: 6344 System operation and management
SC: Tectonophysics [T]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005