Below is the program for the conference part of the Polar Data Forum which will be on Monday and Tuesday. The program for the entire week can be found here.
All times are local times (which is UTC)
Wednesday 1 November
Session 1: Multiple topics
9:00 | Opening / Keynote | |
9:20 | The implications and considerations of integrating Indigenous Knowledge within data-interoperability systems | Rebekah Ingram – Carleton University, Mia Allchin – Arctic Institute of North America/University of Calgary |
| 9:40 | Semantics for Polar Data | Øystein Godøy, MetNo, Norway; Jan Rene Larsen, AMAP Secretariat, Norway |
| 10:00 | SOOSmap, your gateway to Antarctic data sharing | Antonio Novellino (ETT), Francesco Misurale (ETT), Patrick Gorringe (SMHI), Petra Ten Hoopen (BAS) |
| 10:20 | Break | |
Session 2: Fair data for the Polar Regions
| 11:00 | A data checklist to improve data and metadata submissions at the US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC) | Frank O. Nitsche, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Palisades, NY, USA; Kirsty Tinto, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Palisades, NY, USA; Alex Strong, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Palisades, NY, USA; S. I. Cordero, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Palisades, NY, USA |
| 11:20 | FAIR data through the Arctic Data Center | Lara Ferrighi – Norwegian Meteorological Institute; Øystein Godøy – Norwegian Meteorological Institute; Magnar Eivind Martinsen – Norwegian Meteorological Institute; Massimo Di Stefano – Norwegian Meteorological Institute |
| 11:40 | Icebreaker and mobile scientific laboratory supporting worldwide user community with high quality data from the Canadian Arctic: Amundsen Science Open Data/Science initiative | Tahiana Ratsimbazafy – Amundsen Science, Université Laval; Amélie Desmarais – Amundsen Science, Université Laval; Pascal Guillot – Amundsen Science, Québec-Océan, Université Laval; Thibaud Dezutter – Amundsen Science, Université Laval; Daniel Amirault – Amundsen Science, Université Laval; Simon Morisset – Amundsen Science, Université Laval |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
Session 3: FAIR data for the Polar Regions (continued)
| 13:00 | Interoperability of data and metadata under FAIR principle by the National Antarctic Data Center in Japan | Masaki Kanao – Polar Environment Data Science Center |
| 13:20 | A metadata and data logging system for facilitating FAIR data publishing | Luke Marsden – The University Centre in Svalbard, Norwegian Meteorological Institute; Olaf Schneider – Norwegian Polar Institute; Vitaly Dekhtyarev – Institute of Marine Research |
| 13:40 | From ASTIS to ADA: Transforming a 1970s Bibliographic Database into a Modern Data System, An Example from CCADI | Shannon Christoffersen, Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary |
| 14:00 | Presenting the British Antarctic Survey Sediment Core Database and Data Portal | James R. Lucas – British Antarctic Survey; Mari Whitelaw – British Antarctic Survey; Alice Fremand – British Antarctic Survey |
| 14:20 | Arctic PASSION – bringing Arctic Data to Action | Øystein Godøy – Norwegian Meteorological Institute; Janine Felden – Alfred Wegener Institute; Jan Rene Larsen – AMAP; Lara Ferrighi – – Norwegian Meteorological Institute; Matias Takala – Finnish Meteorological Institute; Mathias Bavay – WSL/SLF |
| 14:40 | Break | |
Session 4: Tools and Technologies for Data Management and Delivery / Vocabularies and semantic interoperability + Workshop
| 15:20 | Data Access Made Easy: flexible, on the fly data standardization and processing | Mathias Bavay – SLF; Patrick Leibersperger – SLF; Øystein Godøy – MetNo; Charles Fierz – SLF; Rodica Nitu – WMO |
| 15:40 | Data Discovery Through Federated Search Pathways | Chantelle Verhey – WDS-ITO; Taco de Bruin – IODE; Amos Hayes – Carleton University GCRC |
| 16:00 | Workshop – Vocabularies and Semantics Working Group | |
| 17:30 | Close | |
Thursday 2 November
Session 5: New ships and real-time data in low connectivity locations
| 9:00 | Opening / Keynote | |
| 9:20 | Data management systems on the RRS Sir David Attenborough – the story so far | Alex Tate – British Antarctic Survey; Mike Crosier – British Antarctic Survey; Jeremy Robst – British Antarctic Survey; Alice Fremand – British Antarctic Survey; Petra ten Hoopen – British Antarctic Survey; Juan Ward – National Oceanography Centre |
| 9:40 | Field data pipelines of the Australian Antarctic Program | Lewis Rockliffe – Australian Antarctic Division; Peter Shanks – Australian Antarctic Division; Tess Chapman – Australian Antarctic Division |
| 10:00 | RVIDAS – Novel Additions to OpenRVDAS on the RV Investigator | Stephanie Zeliadt – CSIRO; Ella Pietraroia – CSIRO |
| 10:20 | Break | |
Session 6: Knowledge Mobilization and Decision-Making
| 11:00 | Mapping the Polar Data Ecosystem | Peter Pulsifer – Carleton University; Alex Gao – Carleton University; Brendan Billingsley – Billingsley Custom Software; Øystein Godøy – Norwegian Meteorological Institute; Jan Rene Larsen – AMAP secretariat; Maria Malene Kvalevåg – AMAP secretariat |
| 11:20 | Developing Indigenous partnership for knowledge mobilization under SAON ROADS | Margaret Rudolf, Lauren Divine, and Sandy Starkweather |
| 11:40 | Technical Aspects of Processing and Presenting Raw IoT Sensor Data Using the CCADI Framework | Munish Madan – University of Calgary |
| 12:00 | Break | |
Session 7: Knowledge Mobilization and Decision-Making / Collaborative production of data, information and knowledge
| 13:00 | Mapping desired health and care for Indigenous Peoples in Ontario, Canada | Karen Lawford, Rebekah Ingram – Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre Mapping desired health and care for Indigenous Peoples in Ontario, Canada |
| 13:20 | Collaborative data management: building the Tristan da Cunha data portal | Sarah Jana Manthorpe, Rodica Nitu – WMO |
| 13:40 | A strategy for establishing the South African Polar Research Infrastructure Data Centre | Anne Treasure – South African Polar Research Infrastructure (SAPRI); Leo Chiloane – South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON); Mark Jacobson – South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON); Juliet Hermes – South African Polar Research Infrastructure (SAPRI), and South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) |
| 14:00 | Production of data in the Humanities and Social Sciences – Establishing a digital repository | Maria Olivier – Antarctic Legacy of South Africa, Stellenbosch University |
| 14:20 | What does making research accessible mean? Tools and lessons learned from developing the Canadian Watershed Information Network (CanWIN) | Claire Herbert – Centre for Earth Observation Science, University of Manitoba; Yanique Campbell – Centre for Earth Observation Science, University of Manitoba |
| 14:40 | Break | |
Session 8: Logistical information management / Workshop – Optimizing Polar Observing with Asset-Level Metadata Interoperability Across Networks
| 15:20 | Developing a Registry of Polar Observing Networks: A Project of SAON’s Polar Observing Assets Working Group | William Manley – University of Colorado; Shannon Christoffersen – Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary; Halldór Jóhannsson – Arctic Portal; Jan Rene Larsen – Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Secretariat; Members of the Polar Observing Assets Working Group – https://polarobservingassets.org |
| 15:40 | Workshop – Optimizing Polar Observing with Asset-Level Metadata Interoperability Across Networks | |
| 17:30 | Close | |