Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)

Data inventories

Mark Hebden, the BODC Laboratory Liaison Officer (LLO) for SAMS, undertakes regular visits to ensure, together with Steve Gontarek (the SAMS Data Manager), that all data collected by SAMS can be identified. This enables them to be gathered, properly managed and curated for long—term use by the public. An inventory of this information is maintained in a relational database.

Our web team is currently working to make this information available online. When implemented, this page will allow the display of data sets associated with a particular project, collection activity, Principal Investigator, or expected date of submission. It will also indicate whether the data have been received by BODC.

A search form will allow you to display information according to your own criteria. In the first instance, the display will be limited to data sets from SAMS. However, due to the coordinated approach to marine science, encouraging cross-disciplinary partnership research, you will also have an option to search on data set information from other centres.

In the interim, should you require information concerning the SAMS data set inventory, please contact Mark Hebden, who will be happy to assist you.

Related SAMS liaison pages at BODC

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