Data Basin – Climate Center!
Dominique Bachelet!
Conservation Biology Institute!
Welcome to Data Basin"
www.databasin.org!
NOTE: Work in progress … opportunity for input!
Data Basin sponsors!
Welcome to the Climate Center!
Features about specific issues!
Data Basin – Climate Center!
•! Goal: deliver credible (robust science) and usable (well
documented) conservation-relevant data about climate
change!
•! Objectives: document past changes and presumed
causes, present future projections with uncertainties,
feature pilot projects of CC preparedness!
•! Outline:!
1.! Advisory group for the Climate Center!
2.! Datasets, Maps, and Galleries !
3.! Groups!
4.! Visions of the future!
Create an Account!
Datasets!
•! The Climate Center will provide climate-related datasets and
will also link to existing climate data portals. !
•! Uploading is currently (June 2010) only done by CBI staff
while the uploading tool is being refined by CBI
programmers.!
•! Data Basin currently includes only shape files and Arc Grids
but will be moving towards rasters asap.!
•! Datasets can be made public or kept private!
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Maps!
Maps are created by overlaying datasets within Data Basin and
saving the resulting map!
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Galleries!
Galleries are collections of datasets
that simplify the search for relevant
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Particularly useful for groups!
Groups!
•! Special interest groups: birders, co-authors
on publications, co-PIs on research
projects, land managers, modelers,
decision makers, classroom students … !
•! Workshop attendees: DB-CC can be used
as a dataset display/manipulation tool!
Visions of the future!
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Publishing usable data not currently available!
DB-CC integral part of workshops as tool for attendees to manipulate data!
Expert system to navigate data base based on objectives of groups/background
of individuals!
Carbon footprint calculator: each step of the calculation could be transparent.
Import every GIS layers used to calculate the carbon footprint. Display each
layer to show the source and explain how the calculations are done. !
Carbon sequestration potential estimator!
Climate uncertainty tool!
Data mining tools to search large on-line datasets for pattern recognition of
change (or occurrence of specific events like fire, floods, on a particular year) and
statistical tools to link patterns to potential causes such as climate vs LUC vs
social conflicts.!
Animations!
On-line model point-runs (ex. MC1)!
Hydro-terrestrial coupling and analyses: riparian, ground water/frozen soil,
geomorphology, vegetation shift/disturbance/stream flow!
Write about your experience using
Data Basin … contribute to its blog !