Marine environment time-series data sets - can you help

Nov 03 10:12 NZDT

Hi All,

Received the request below via the New Zealand Ecological Society.

Hi Vicky.  Check out the Dataversity
(http://dataversity.org.nz/groups/dataversity_public_discuss/) to see what
we're all about.

Regards,
Jim L.

From: NZ Ecological Society Secretariat <email obscured>]
Sent: Wednesday, 2 November 2011 9:48 a.m.
To: NZ Ecological Society Secretariat
Subject: Marine environment time-series data sets - can you help

Greetings,

We are presently involved in a project that seeks to build an online meta
database containing high level information (mainly sampling details) about
time-series data that has been, or is the process of being, collected from New
Zealand's marine environment.  The marine environment as defined here runs from
estuaries out to the edge of the EEZ and encompasses both sediment and water.
We are interested in collecting information about sampling involving
biological, physical or chemical variables, and we define a time series as the
same variable(s) measured (or intended to be measured) in the same way in the
same location(s) on 2 or more occasions, over at least a 5 year time period.

The meta database project is seen as the first step towards developing a
national marine monitoring network and is funded by MAF Fisheries (see Section
3 of the attached file for an introduction to the project). Thus, the type of
information we want to hold in the meta database would be sampling details
(what variables, collected when, where and how, owner, level of quality
assurance and where any resulting reports may be accessed).

If you do not own/hold such data, but would be interested in using such a
database, you may still be interested in answering questions in Section 2 of
the attached file.

If you do own/hold such data, regardless of whether you are interested in
allowing high level information about your data to be held in an online meta
database, we would really appreciate your taking the few minutes needed to
answer the 10 (mainly y/n) questions in Section 1 of the attached file.  In
Section 1.9 you can indicate whether you wish information about your data to be
included in any online meta database or not.  If you own/hold multiple
datasets, you can either repeat section 1 for each dataset or merely note in
the comment section at the end that this is the case.  In this case we will
contact you to work out the easiest way to obtain the relevant information from
you.

We would appreciate receiving responses within 3 weeks.

Thank you for your assistance

On behalf of a project team comprising NIWA, Cawthron Institute, Pacific
Eco-Logic Ltd, and Uniservices (University of Auckland)
Vicky Froude
Pacific Eco-Logic Ltd
Deeming Road, RD1 Russell 0272, Bay of Islands, New Zealand
Ph +64 9 403 8898, <email obscured><email obscured>>

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