Advanced technologies and data management practices in environmental science: Lessons from academia

BioScience

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1067-1076

  Hernandez, Rebecca R ^a   Mayernik, Matthew S ^b   Murphy Mariscal, Michelle L ^c   Allen, Michael F ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

data life cycle; data repository; education; environmental sensors; eScience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871207000     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2012.62.12.8     Document Type: Article

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