Benefits to Stakeholders

Key stakeholders in the coordinated management of oceanographic research data include ship operators, scientists, technical staff, funding agencies, and the public. R2R will benefit each in a range of ways:

Operators:

• Provide feedback and tools to improve data quality and documentation
• Support by removing obligations to fill data requests long after a cruise has ended
• Facilitate cruise planning
• Leverage infrastructure and content of centralized R2R cruise database to facilitate national permiting and clearance processes

Shipboard Science Team:

• R2R will ensure field data sets are consistently delivered to National Data Centers, freeing science team of this obligation
• Facilitate cruise planning
• Facilitate data submission to programmatic data management systems

Shore-based Scientists:

• R2R will ensure field data sets are made available to the broad scientific community for re-use
• R2R will make well-documented data available for global syntheses and compilations

Funding Agencies:

• Ensure agency-mandated data sharing obligations are fulfilled via R2R to National Data Center data delivery pipeline

National Data Centers:

• Ensure that data are routinely archived and made publicly available as a result of the direct R2R to National Data Center data delivery pipeline

Data Assembly Centers:

• R2R will ensure that well-documented data are routinely made available to Data Assembly Centers focused on details analysis of specific data types.

Public:

• Ensure long-term preservation of research data collected with public funds
• Provide broader public accessibility to data via National Data Centers

Standardization of data collection across the fleet will:

• lead to more uniform quality and access that will facilitate the fleet’s operation as a global integrated ocean observing system
• aid basic scientific inquiry
• leverage the infrastructure and content of the centralized R2R cruise database