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New Federal Guidelines for Data Repositories: Moving Toward FAIR
In May, 2022, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) of the White House released new guidance, “Desirable Characteristics of...
Melissa Cragin
Sep 7, 2022


How Data Licenses Can Help Make Your Research Data More FAIR
Choosing an appropriate license for your data can be complicated as there are many factors to consider; however, here is a relatively simple
Nancy J. Hoebelheinrich, Knowledge Motifs LLC
Mar 14, 2022


FAIR --- Why Should I Care?
You have undoubtedly heard about the “FAIR Data Principles” (FAIR) as you’re seeking funding, connecting with colleagues...


Effective Virtual Efforts – Approaches by Two EarthCube Projects to Reach Communities
Transitioning from in-person to exclusively virtual events has been a challenge for most people during the current pandemic.


Expanding EarthCube capacity for FAIR awareness and implementation
The EarthCube Office seeks your help to identify priorities for creating new resources to support implementation of the FAIR data principles
Melissa Cragin
Nov 30, 2020


EarthCube Initiative Develops Tool to Study Greenland and its Melting Ice Sheet
International Geoscientists Unite to Create Open-Source GIS Tool Coined QGreenland
Kimberly Mann Bruch
Nov 23, 2020


New EarthCube Peer-Reviewed Jupyter Notebooks Now Available
A novel element of the EarthCube 2020 Annual Conference was a call for notebooks, which led to twelve peer-reviewed Jupyter notebooks...
Kimberly Mann Bruch
Nov 17, 2020


NSF EarthCube-funded Scientists Release Planet Microbe
Because 70 percent of Earth is comprised of oceans, their changes have a great impact on our entire planet.
Kimberly Mann Bruch
Oct 29, 2020


EarthCube Project Creates Data Broker to Share Information about Novel Volcano in Tanzania
Virginia Tech Doctoral Student Teams with International Researchers to Learn More about Ol Doinyo Lengai
Kimberly Mann Bruch
Oct 29, 2020


EarthCube’s StraboSpot Develops Digital Tools for Geosciences Educators
Multiple Programs Team to Address Distance Learning Needs Amid Pandemic
Kimberly Mann Bruch
Sep 28, 2020


Make Your GitHub Repository More Discoverable
Add an NSF Award badge to your README page
Ouida Meier, Maša Prodanović, and Daven Quinn
Aug 30, 2020


EarthCube Working Together with Standards and Specifications
In any group effort, following accepted norms and practices helps bring cohesion to the outcomes.
Ken Rubin
Jul 1, 2020


Geoscience during the pandemic: #shareEGU20 & #DataHelpDesk
Like many organizations at this time, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) has needed to quickly convert their planned annual event from...


EarthCube Projects: On Building Community
EarthCube projects take on the work of building community for different reasons: as a way to crowdsource development of best practices,...
Ouida Meier
Mar 2, 2020


Farewell from the EarthCube Science Support Office
Dear Members of the EarthCube Community, This October will be the EarthCube Science Support Office’s final month of operation at the...
Earthcube Admin
Oct 1, 2019


Practicing What We Preach: EarthCube Documents Get DOIs and a Repository
While EarthCube strives to help others organize their own data, it has generated quite a bit of data of its own, especially in the form...
Ouida Meier
May 24, 2019


What is EarthCube?
EarthCube was established as a way to help working scientists streamline the process for sharing their data.
Julie Petro
Dec 9, 2018


Diving into Mega Metadata for Coral Reef Research
Representatives from the three largest NSF-funded coral reef data repositories came together in one room.
Earthcube Admin
Dec 6, 2018


ASSET: an aptly named tool for scientists
Talk to any researcher and most will tell you they spend too much time ‘wrangling’ their data.
Emily Villaseñor
Oct 15, 2018


SeaView: north star of interoperability on the rough seas of science data
The EarthCube-funded SeaView project is approaching an exciting milestone in a few short months
Earthcube Admin
Oct 3, 2018


EarthCube members receive awards for service to the EarthCube Community
Mimi Tzeng from the EarthCube Engagement Team presented three EarthCube members with the EarthCube Community Service Award...
Julie Petro
Jun 28, 2018


2018 AHM Preview: What is Success for EarthCube?
At the 2018 All Hands Meeting, Simon Goring will address a question that so many of us ask ourselves, “what is success”?
Emily Villaseñor
May 14, 2018


What kind of discoveries might be hidden in the growing sea of ‘dark data’?
As a field, science has been growing, developing, and evolving – much like a living organism.
Emily Villaseñor
Mar 5, 2018


Striking Power CHORDS with the Geosciences
CHORDS, Cloud-Hosted Real-time Data Services for the Geosciences, is an Earthcube Building Block project first funded in 2014 to provide...
Julie Petro
Aug 30, 2017
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