Objectives
The World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC-MARE) is aimed at collecting, scrutinizing, and disseminating data related to Global Change and earth system research in the fields of environmental oceanography, marine geosciences, and marine biology. It focuses on georeferenced data using the PANGAEA information system as its long-term archive and publication unit.
WDC-MARE is maintained by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), a research center of the Helmholtz Association, and the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM), University of Bremen. Additional support is provided by the DFG Research Center Ocean Margins (rcom).
Latest News [Archive]
2007-11-12
The information system PANGAEA wins one of the InfoWorld 100 Awards.
2007-11-13/14
During the 3rd curators workshop, improvements of data flow and access are discussed by 17 project data curators.
2007-10-11/12
Data archiving becomes integral part of the DFG priority program for polar research. WDC-MARE is defined as one of the major data archives for marine research within the International Polar Year 2007/2009 (IPY).
2007-05-07/09
International Conference of World Data Centers in Bremen, organized by WDC-MARE (find a note in AGU/EOS).
2006-12-07/09
WDC-MARE is presented during the annual SCOR meeting in London.
