Research Areas
- Virtual Data Centers
- Web Service Data Systems
- Data Integration
- Renewable Energy Data
Programs and Projects
- AmeriFlux, which provides comprehensive data management services to the AmeriFlux network and DOE-supported FACE experiments
- Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Archive, which supports DOE's ARM project
- Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC), which supports DOE's research related to global change and manages the World Data Center for Atmospheric Trace Gases
- DataONE (Data Observation Network for Earth): Developing sustainable and secure cyberinfrastructure to meet the needs of the Earth observational science communities.
- Discovery, Access, and Delivery of Data for the IPY (DADDI), which supports the accessibility of Arctic coastal data
- ESDORA: Developing software tool to promote best practice in data provenance and effective access to data and associated metadata.
- FLUXNET, which facilitates communication amongst the global flux tower community
- MERCURY, a toolset for harvesting, indexing, and searching spatio temporal metadata
- Modeling and Synthesis Thematic Data Center (MASTDC), which provides data management services to North American Carbon Program (NACP) investigators
- Ocean Carbon, which provides data management support for the International World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), the Climate Variability (CLIVAR) CO2 Repeat Hydrography International Project, the Underway surface pCO2 measurement data, the Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP), and the Pacific Ocean Biogeochemical Models stimulation
- ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center, which supports the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Observing System Program
- NARSTO - Quality Systems Science Center (QSSC), which coordinates quality systems and data management activities for NARSTO, a North American consortium for research on lower-atmospheric ozone and particulates
- NBII Metadata Clearinghouse - National Biological Information Infrastructure, which provides increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources
- USA National Phenology Network, which is a network of people and research projects studying phenology (the study of the timing of life cycle events in plants and animals).
- Wind Energy Data & Information Gateway (WENDI), is an integrated system for the archival, discovery, access, integration, and delivery of wind energy-related data and information.