4. Post Cruise Activities

Data Preparations for Data Centers

Tools and resources for organizing and submitting data to repositories after cruise operations.

Repository Resources

Key data centers for subsea data:

• Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) - Underway shipboard data, cruise-level metadata
• Marine Geoscience Data System (MGDS) - Multibeam bathymetry, geophysical data, sample metadata
• NOAA NCEI - Broad oceanographic data, long-term archival
• Pangaea - Interdisciplinary earth science data with publication linkage
• Ocean Networks Canada Oceans 3.0 - Video, dive logs, sensor data from Canadian operations
• OBIS - Marine biological occurrence data (Darwin Core schema)
• GenBank - Molecular and genomic sequence data
• FathomNet - Annotated underwater imagery and ML models for AI training (MBARI)

FAIR Data Standards

Resources for making deep ocean data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable:

• Deep Ocean Observing Strategy (DOOS) - International initiative coordinating deep ocean observing community (>200m depth)
• DOOS SeaFAIRers - Working group fostering FAIR deep ocean data practices and training resources

Data Quality

Standards and tools for quality assurance and quality control.

QA/QC Resources

• QARTOD - U.S. IOOS quality control standards
• OOI QC Procedures - Automated testing and flagging
• IODE Quality Flag Scheme - Standardized quality flag conventions

End-User Feedback

Resources for gathering and incorporating community feedback.

Post-Cruise Assessment

• Focus areas: data delivery timeline, format compatibility, documentation quality

Targeting New Users

Gather perspectives from early-career scientists and students on:

• Training and resource gaps
• Data management barriers
• Tool usability issues