Database Management - David Court

Current Tasks

last update: 27.09.2012

News:
Nothing wrong with LUNA afterall
I've asked for a Microsoft operating system to be installed afterwards - along with VMware Fusion
I've found the "underway" data associated with the MER, so I'll be able to extract continuous surface irradiance for cruises between 1992 and 1999. This will give us daily PAR data as well.

Ongoing:

Global Database of In-Situ Matchups
- Adding new data as it becomes available from SeaBASS
- Applying QC/QA measures to updates
- Most recent update: September 01, 2012
- Need to redevelop MySQL tools for on-line access

BBOP
- WEBPAGE: http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/bbop/
- Processing BBOP MicroPro data
- Formatting data for SeaBASS submissions
- Latest cruise: B171
- Submitted to SeaBASS: YES
- Data available on-line: YES

Plumes & Blooms
- WEBPAGE: http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/PnB/PnB.html
- Formatting processed CTD for SeaBASS submissions
- Processing and formatting PRR data for SeaBASS submissions
- Latest cruise: PB231
- Submitted to SeaBASS: NO
- Data available on-line: NO

CLIVAR
- Process MicroPro radiometric data as it becomes available
- Matchup data products (AOPs, IOPs & pigments)
- Last cruise: P6 - April 2010
- Submitted to SeaBASS: YES
- Additional cruises: A20 A22 AMMA I08S I09N P16S P16N P18

Global Matchups (In-Situ Data + Remotely Sensed Data Products)
- WEBPAGE: http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/~dcourt/MATCHUPS/

MEaSUREs
- Plan to build some web-tools per Stéphane's needs

Current Projects:

Re-organization of the BBOP database
Purpose:
- To increase the performance of the (in-situ) matchups
Methods:
- Imported all pigment measurements from SeaBASS
- Organized all radiometric data (MER, SPMR, & MicrPro)
- Organized all absorption data (ag, ad, ap & aph)
- Cross-referencing all measurements with BATS log sheets
Issues:
- The chlorophyll values in the original database were incorrect. The chlorophyll values were taken from the IOP bottle-files that had been submitted to SeaBASS. These were labeled as "chl_a", which is defined by SeaBASS as an HPLC product. However, these are Flourometric measurements. At some point, a script needs to be written to re-format these files and a they must then be re-submitted to SeaBASS.
- Many of the sample times are incorrect. This creates inaccuracies when trying to match-up the different measurements. Most of the problems are a result of submitting the data in local (Bermuda) time rather than GMT - as required by SeaBASS. Other issues exist as a result of the technician's computer clock being incorrectly set - sometimes by an order of years. Again, these data will ultimately have to edited and re-submitted to SeaBASS.