A community for the paleosciences¶
What is LinkedEarth?¶
LinkedEarth is a community of paleoscientists working to develop standards and software to advance paleoscience in the era of Big Data. This community creates data products, establishes standards, develops software and cyberinfrastructure, and provides training opportunities.
LinkedEarth originated in 2016 through a grant from the National Science Foundation’s EarthCube program. The project’s initial goal was to create a platform for archiving paleoclimate datasets and centralizing discussions about standardizing these datasets. Since then, the community has expanded its focus to include leveraging these standards to build automated tools for analyzing datasets and creating other data products.
There is no formal registration process to join LinkedEarth. We encourage you to become part of this growing community and integrate our tools into your scientific workflow.
This website provides general information about LinkedEarth. For news and updates, follow our Medium blog, Twitter feed and BlueSky account <https://bsky.app/profile/linkedearth.bsky.social>_.
People¶
Core Team¶
As of 2025, the core team is composed of:
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Southern California
School of Earth and Sustainability
Northern Arizona University
Contributors¶
Feng Zhu, NCAR
Alexander James, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California
Jordan Landers, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California
Cody Rouston, School of Earth and Sustainability, Northern Arizona University
Michael Erb, School of Earth and Sustainability, Northern Arizona University
Daniel Garijo, Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Yolanda Gil, Information Sciences Institute and Department of Computer Sciences, University of Southern California
Varun Ratnakar, Karya Limited
David Edge, School of Earth and Sustainability, Northern Arizona University
Getting involved¶
To engage with the community, there are three main ways:
Browse our GitHub repos
Visit our Discourse forum
Email us to join an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session
Activities¶
The LinkedEarth activities can be grouped under the following:
These four umbrellas gather more specific activities, as seen on the diagram below, and detailed in the various pages of this site.
To stay up-to-date with LinkedEarth activities, subscribe to our calendar.
News¶
We use twitter to share announcements and retweet content of interest to our community.
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