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ANNOUNCEMENTS


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...
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
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...
Dec 1, 2021


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.
Jan 4, 2021


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
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
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...
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.
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
Oct 29, 2020


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

Make Your GitHub Repository More Discoverable
Add an NSF Award badge to your README page
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.
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...
May 3, 2020


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,...
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...
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...
May 24, 2019


What is EarthCube?
EarthCube was established as a way to help working scientists streamline the process for sharing their data.
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.
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.
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
Oct 3, 2018
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