Earth & Environmental Sciences

Research Data Services is a growing network of services throughout the library to assist you during all phases of the research data lifecycle. From preparing data management plans for grant proposals to sharing and preserving data, we provide resources to help you with your data.

For research data questions or to schedule a consultation, please email us at ResearchDataServices@umich.edu.

Current GDEX holdings include datasets from all NCAR Labs as well as from the Index of Chamber Atmospheric Research in the US (ICARUS); GDEX has also been designated as the repository for data from NSF Community Instrument Facilities and the Atmospheric Science and Chemistry mEasurement NeTwork (ASCENT). Other data providers can name NCAR as a collaborator on the data management portion of grant proposals, or use the standardized System Use Rate now pending NSF approval. There are costs for data storage that are substantially less than that for commercial cloud services, with zero egress charges, and there is cost recovery for data ingest processing depending on the volume, complexity, and heterogeneity of the data.NCAR launched the Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX) in January 2022 to address the increasing demand for archival repository space for Earth system science data. The project – an expansion and rebranding of the former DASH Repository – is a response to the need to provide open access as required by federal policy, funding agencies, and scientific publishers, and to support scientific reproducibility and secondary use of data for new research.GDEX is designed to support NCAR projects and also external, NSF-funded projects such as Community Instruments and Facilities (CIFs), the Index of Chamber Atmospheric Research in the United States (ICARUS), and other geoscience data collections that require data archiving, preservation, and open access.

e3data.org is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It presents repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions. re3data.org promotes a culture of sharing, increased access and better visibility of research data. The registry went live in autumn 2012 and is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Provides an introduction to the most commonly used resources on a particular topic. It mostly covers social sciences topics and Earth sciences but would come in handy if someone was curious about something like where to look for real estate data.