Projects

MSU Award Number

363532-191001-021000

Current NGI File Number

17-NGI3-35

Associated MSU Award or NGI File Numbers

N/A

Start Date

7/1/2017

End Date

2022-6-30 0:0:0

Project Status

Active

Award Amount

$1,231,122.00

Project Title

Enhanced Coastal Data Development and Information Services: CEDAC

PI Last Name

Moorhead

PI First Name

Robert

PI Affiliation

MSU

Co-PI Last Name

Mickle

Co-PI First Name

Paul

Co-PI Affiliation

MSU

Research Theme

EM-DM

Funding Source

NESDIS

Project Description

The Coastal Ecosystem Data Assembly Center (CEDAC) is being developed as a resource for scientific data exchange that serves the needs of both data providers and users, including access to data management tools and training and a portal to upload data for archive staging. This effort will involve stewardship of the long-term coastal data record and its continued development to support Gulf of Mexico ecosystem research. The CEDAC will also provide a unified interface for timely, easy, and convenient public access to data collections resulting from recovery and restoration activities that followed the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Innovative data stewardship solutions to enhance NOAA capabilities with data management, visualization, and dissemination will be developed as well as methods and tools to improve data discovery and access. Sea Grant extension specialists will conduct needs assessments with end users before product and services are developed and again afterwards to gain insights into making them more useful and user friendly. Sea Grant will also host trainings and workshops to increase awareness and use of CEDAC products and information services.