Platforms database - Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office
Original (non-English) name
Acronym
Platforms database - BCO-DMO
Citation
Data set citation should include these key components:
Principal Investigator (PI) name(s) (VERSION YEAR) title of dataset, data version date, publisher or distributor, date accessed/retrieved by you, DOI or URL of the data set
Abstract
This is a platform database from the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). BCO -DMO is located at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is a combination of the formerly independent Data Management Offices formed in support of the US JGOFS and US GLOBEC programs. The BCO-DMO staff members are the curators of the data collections created by those respective programs, as well as data from more recent NSF Geosciences Directorate (GEO) Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE) Biological and Chemical Oceanography Sections, Division of Polar Programs (PLR) Antarctic Sciences (ANT) Organisms & Ecosystems, and Arctic Sciences (ARC) awards. The BCO-DMO project is funded by NSF OCE and ANT programs, NSF award number OCE-1435578.
The data sets and supporting documentation from oceanographic research projects are freely available from this database as long as one follows the terms of use, including the understanding that any such use will properly acknowledge the originating investigator. It is highly recommended that anyone wishing to use portions of this data collection should contact the originating principal investigator (PI) of the relevant data set.