Geology & Earth Science: Data Management & Repositories

The Research Data Services department helps UCSB researchers manage and preserve their research data.

Our data specialists can help you with your data management planning. The DMPTool is available to help you create a plan.

The Dryad Data Repository is a new self-service research data publishing service for campus. Dryad provides UCSB researchers with user-friendly tools to upload and describe their data for access and reuse and to create citations and persistent identifiers for each dataset. Dryad also allows researchers to set a future publication date for data still under peer review.

List of repositories for core samples.

A curated general-purpose repository that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.

An open file in which authors of articles in our journals can place information that supplements and expands on their article. These supplements will not appear in print but may be obtained from GSA. (Geological Society of America)

List of data repositories arranged by category: Biology Data, Climate Data, Geologic/Geophysical Data, Geochemical/Geochronological Data, Images and Video, Oceanographic Data, Samples and Sample Metadata, Polar Data, and Cryosphere/Glaciology.

An Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research.

Discover and download the Earth observation data you need from the broad catalogue of missions the European Space Agency operate and support.

The Polar Data Catalogue is a repository of metadata and data that describes and provides access to diverse data sets generated by Arctic and Antarctic researchers.