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Operators:

Ensures the field data sets from underway environmental sensors from each cruise are consistently delivered to National Data Centers, freeing operators of this obligation
Removes obligations of operators to fulfill data requests long after a cruise has ended
Provides feedback and tools to improve data quality and documentation
Facilitates cruise planning
Leverages infrastructure and content of centralized R2R cruise database to facilitate national permitting and clearance processes

Shipboard Science Team:

Ensures field data sets from underway environmental sensors are consistently delivered to National Data Centers, freeing science team of this obligation
Facilitates cruise planning
Facilitates submission of other cruise data (national facility and science party) to disciplinary data management systems

Shore-based Scientists:

Ensures field data sets from the underway environmental sensors are made available to the broad scientific community for re-use
Makes well-documented data available for global syntheses and compilations

Funding Agencies:

Ensures agency-mandated data sharing obligations for environmental sensor data are fulfilled via R2R to National Data Center data delivery pipeline

National Data Centers:

Ensures that well-documented environmental sensor 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:

Ensures that well-documented environmental sensor data are routinely available to Disciplinary Data Assembly Centers focused on detailed analysis of specific data types

Public:

Ensures long-term preservation of cruise-based research data collected with public funds
Provides broader public accessibility to cruise-based data via National Data Centers

SUPPORTED BY

Key stakeholders in the coordinated management of oceanographic research data include ship operators, scientists, technical staff, funding agencies, and the public.