eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 FRESH PERSPECTIVES Ron Weaver NSIDC, University of Colorado, Boulder

eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 FRESH PERSPECTIVES

eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 Themes Active management versus stewardship  Might be a crisis in distributed environments Levels of Service Discovery of Data AND access to Data  Jim Geringer at Decadal Survey Hearings  Decisions based on hard data and not anecdotal judgment Educate the producers as well as the users about data and data management

eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 Themes, (questions) What can eGY do in conjunction with the WDC’s? the ‘pull’ to energize? Geoinfomatics? (geology, seismology + ?) eGY has said what it wants to be, and the route seems to be sessions at conferences (how long IPY?)

eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 Electronic World and Communication

eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 It’s metadata and data

eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 Education Both youth – entrainment into science And scientists – methodologies and best practices for data management in scientific research

eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 The outcome of the first International Polar Year No arrangements for post-expedition synthesis Long delays in publication of the data Why? Historic example of peaceful international scientific cooperation that inspired subsequent Polar Years. A wide-ranging and extensive set of observations collected and published between 1885 and The synoptic data were never analyzed, no fundamental discoveries followed as a result of the first IPY. Part 1: History Outcome

eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 The first IPY was a successful example of international scientific cooperation, but coordinated observations were not synthesized for 125 years!!! (Wood and Overland, 2006: Climate Lessons from the First International Polar Year, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Vol. 87, Data and image collection available at: Slow analysis

The first in a series of Polar Years Took place prior to marked 20th century warming and attendant environmental change. First synoptic view of the Arctic th century Arctic warming Zonal-average annual surface air temperature (SAT) anomaly in degrees C. From Johannessen (2004). Temperature Anomaly Year Latitude (N) IPY IPY IGY IPY Part 1: History IPY history

Tiksi, Russia Alert, CanadaBarrow, Alaska Eureka, Canada Summit, Greenland Ny-Alesund, Svalbard IASOA Target Observatories IASAO