LinkedEarth 2020

Julien Emile-Geay January 13, 2020

Happy new year to all! Despite EarthCube support for the project having ended, LinkedEarth is alive and kicking, and actually had a pretty peachy year, thank you for asking! That was in no small part thanks to the tireless Deborah Khider. A community pact Building on work started in 2016, […]

Paleoclimate data standards: a community pact, and its future

Julien Emile-Geay June 12, 2019

Developing data standards is a key goal of EarthCube, and doing so for paleoclimate was one of LinkedEarth’s core missions . Over the life of this project, we have come to realize that a data standard is really three things: a standard format for the data a standard terminology for […]

Doing Science with LinkedEarth

Deborah Khider February 26, 2017

My last task as a PhD student at USC was to generate a record of Holocene sea surface and deep ocean temperature and salinity variability within the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool. As a geochemist, I spent hours in the lab picking foraminifera, cleaning them, and performing isotopes and trace metal analyses. I […]

Community Data Standards

A key objective of LinkedEarth is to promote the development of a community standard for paleoclimate data and metadata. (for more details, see this page)The work done on LiPD, which closely mirrors our ontology, provides a stepping stone for this effort. Building on this, the workshop on paleoclimate data standards […]

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