Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/P020445/1
Data Management For Biologists
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Mr D Lear, Marine Biological Association, Marine Biology
- Grant held at:
- Marine Biological Association, Marine Biology
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Community Ecology
- Marine communities
- Population Ecology
- Marine populations
- Bioinformatics
- Biological database management
- Survey & Monitoring
- Marine habitats
- Marine protected areas
- Abstract:
- The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to scientific data management, with specific focus on marine biological data. This course will provide students with the basic knowledge to move into more technical and data intensive science. Our proposal is to run six workshops over two years or three workshops if only one year of funding is allocated. We envisage each workshop will take no longer than one day. In the last four funding calls NERC has funded numerous programming courses for its students, however, none of the courses run in this same time period have directly addressed improving the quality of the data going into these programs. This course will be totally unique, in that it will directly address improving data quality in environmental science, using marine biological data as a test case. These workshops will give students a strong technical base from which to springboard into programming and a greater appreciation that what goes into a program is just as important as what comes out. As the environmental sciences become more and more data intensive it is imperative that environmental scientists, particularly those at the start of their careers, have the skills to properly work with large datasets. Having a basic understanding of data management will enable environmental scientists to produce data that is reusable, as it will conform to standards used in industry and government. This course will provide students with the knowledge to produce data to these standards and increase the potential user-base and impact of their research. As well as producing large data sets, aspiring scientists will need to work with third party data. Any early career scientist seeking to work with industry or government will need to be comfortable working with data from disparate sources, usually collected across a large spatial and temporal scale. Datasets from industry and government are collected to very exacting standards and it is important that scientists wishing to use this data are aware of these standards, so they are better able to interpret data from these sources. These workshops will introduce students to data standards used by industry and government in the marine sector and provide them with the skills to produce and interpret these standards. It is a fact that the amount of data produced by humanity is increasing at an exponential rate, IBM estimate that 90% of the data available today has been created in the last two years alone. Science at large is becoming more data intensive and there is an increasing need for interdisciplinary collaboration. With this being the case it is essential that environmental scientists have the skills to interpret large datasets from disparate sources and produce datasets that can be readily shared with others. These workshops will give students the opportunity to start developing their skillsets in this growing area in science, data management.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/P020445/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Advanced Training
This training grant award has a total value of £15,279
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Other Costs |
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| £15,279 |
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