From: Simone Alin - NOAA Federal Date: Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:13 PM Subject: Submission of data & metadata for Salish cruise time-series (2008-2018) To: Liqing Jiang Cc: JAN NEWTON , Richard Feely , Dana Greeley , Beth Curry , Julian Herndon - NOAA Affiliate Dear Li-Qing, (with cc to: Jan, Dick, Dana, Julian, Beth) Here is a link to a Google folder that I'm now sharing with all on this email containing the final data (.csv format) and metadata (Excel format) files for the Salish Sea time-series of 35 cruises (but 33 data sets) from 2008 through 2018 that we hereby submit for archival at NCEI under the Ocean Acidification Data Stewardship program. I believe just Julian and I will be able to edit but all of you should be able to view and download files in this folder. (Let me know if it doesn't work that way of course.) As we've discussed in the past: 1) I will work with you over the coming weeks to build a landing page prior to submission of our ESSD manuscript such that all cruises are listed in a table with a brief description of each (e.g., dates, stations occupied, cruise codes, DOIs, and links to data/metadata files for each cruise). This was to follow the model of Adrienne's pages here and here, and you indicated you'd work with Alex Kozyr to make this happen. I'm aware that the page itself will not be "DOI-able" but having a clearinghouse page to link to will be useful for submitting the paper, as it was for Adrienne's papers. 2) We'd like you to include this text both on the aforementioned NCEI landing page, and ideally at the top of each metadata file, as in the NOAA precedents here (click on any data link) and here and a NASA precedent here: "Recommendations from submitter: Data from UW, PRISM, NANOOS, WOAC, NOAA, PMEL cruises in Washington waters (hereafter “Salish cruises”) are made freely available to the public and the scientific community in the belief that their wide dissemination will lead to greater understanding and new scientific and policy insights. The investigators sharing these data rely on the ethics and integrity of the user to ensure that the institutions and investigators involved in producing the Salish cruise data sets receive fair credit for their work, which in turn helps ensure the continuity of the observational time-series. If the data are obtained for potential use in a publication or presentation, we urge the end user to inform the investigators at the outset of this work so that we can help ensure that the quality and limitations of the data are accurately represented. If these data are essential to the work, or if an important result or conclusion depends on these data, co-authorship may be appropriate. This should be discussed at an early stage in the work. We request that manuscripts using these data be shared before they are submitted for publication. Please direct all queries about this data set to Drs. Simone Alin and Jan Newton." 3) You will need to fill in accession numbers for all related cruises once you've generated them. There are two main subsets: the Sound to Sea (and a subset of this is Cha Ba-only cruises) and Puget Sound cruises. We'd like you to fill in all accession numbers for each subset into that top box. I can work with you on this when we get to that point. 4) You will need to update final citation information for the linked ESSD paper once it's submitted and assigned a DOI, in all cruise metadata files. 5) UW's new R/V Rachel Carson does not have a ship code yet. Perhaps you could work with the relevant parties at UW to secure one as you did for the R/V Jack Robertson? If you search for the email thread with Eric Boget at Univ. Washington, you should find our conversation from early 2019 about this. Let us know if we should connect you to the right people at UW (Captain Robert Kamphaus and Mr. Loren Tuttle) to facilitate this. This code will need to be filled in on three of the metadata sheets (for cruises RC001, RC006, and RC007). We have the same need for the M/V Norseman II cruise in October 2018. I think Julian can connect you to the ship's owners to do this for this platform. For all affected cruises, you'll need to finalize the expocodes too, of course. 6) With respect to the column headers, you will note that these do not conform to the latest version as per your paper. This is unfortunate, as this project was the entire reason that I initiated that conversation. However, given the premium on consistency and the fact that this project was already so far down the road when those changes were agreed upon (i.e. TCO2 rather than DIC and TALK rather than TA), I made the judgment call that we would stick to what we already had in the 60 odd data/metadata files per our original agreement rather than risking missing something and thus confusing the matter by trying to update these things everywhere they occurred in all 60+ files. I hope you understand. We still have the synonomy statements in each file that were discussed at the inception of this conversation. 7) For questions about the submitted data and metadata sets, please send your questions to myself and Julian. We'll distribute questions to others as needed. Thanks in advance for your work on this. I would also like to thank Dana, Beth, and Julian for many hours of diligent work and attention to this effort over the last several years. It has been a huge effort that benefitted from many sets of hands, eyes, and minds, including theirs especially. Best regards, Simone (and Jan and Dick) _____ Simone Alin, Ph.D. Supervisory Oceanographer, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Affiliate Associate Professor, University of Washington School of Oceanography Tel. (206) 526-6819 Website: pmel.noaa.gov/co2/ Pronouns: she/her