DATA RESCUE
Data rescue includes the preservation of specimens in permanent archives, transfer of outdated electronic records to current archiving methods, and transcription of hard copy records to accessible electronic formats.
NODC files of benthic infauna, 1971-1980 Ken Dunton | The University of Texas at Austin | $89,745 This is a data rescue project designed and implemented to faciliate access to existing Arctic data files from field studies conducted in the 1970’s and 1980’s that were deposited at the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). These data represent an effort to establish a baseline characterization of the coastal waters of the American Arctic that started with WEBSEC (Western Beaufort Sea Ecological Cruises) and then continued under the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCESEAP).
2017
Whaling data rescue Yulia Ivashchenko | Seastar Scientific | $34,180 In 1948, the USSR began a 30-year campaign of illegal whaling that is estimated to have resulted in almost 180,000 unreported catches worldwide. The true catch totals have now been reconstructed for the North Pacific using formerly secret Soviet whaling industry and other reports discovered in Russian archives. This project will extract data from these reports, develop an accessible electronic database, and make them publicly available. Archiving seabird specimens from the Selendang Ayu oil spill Kevin Winker | University of Alaska Fairbanks | $32,042 In December 2004, the M/V Selendang Ayu ran aground on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands, spilling over 350,000 gallons of fuel oil and resulting in the salvage of over 1,500 seabird carcasses. This project proposes to rescue these specimens and data, preserving genetic samples, skeletons, and skins, and disseminating the associated data through an online database. This material represents a unique opportunity to archive samples of avian taxa that are difficult to acquire.
2018
Digitizing and disseminating historical Board of Fisheries documents and commercial fisheries news releases Phillip Witt | Alaska Department of Fish and Game $148,134 This project attempts to scope, organize, and disseminate two important historical Alaska fisheries documents in web-based, searchable databases: 1) Division of Commercial Fisheries News Releases and; 2) Board of Fisheries public testimony and meeting documents. Digital documents from this project will for the first time provide a complete picture of historical News Releases and Board of Fisheries documents.
Data Rescue Funding Metrics
Funding Success Rate 2017-2018
35%
Target
Requested
Funded
$100,000
2017
$155,967
$455,926
$150,000
2018
$595,960
$148,134
$304,101 Total Funded, 2017-2018
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