The common oceanographer: crowdsourcing the collection of oceanographic data

Federico M Lauro; Svend Jacob Senstius; Jay Cullen; Russell Neches; Rachelle M Jensen; Mark V Brown; Aaron E Darling; Michael Givskov; Diane McDougald; Ron Hoeke; Martin Ostrowski; Gayle K Philip; Ian T Paulsen; Joseph J Grzymski

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001947

The common oceanographer: crowdsourcing the collection of oceanographic data

PLoS Biol. 2014 Sep 9;12(9):e1001947. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001947. eCollection 2014 Sep.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
² Department of Transport, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
³ School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
⁴ Genome Center, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America.
⁵ School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁶ The ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia.
⁷ Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Costerton Biofilm Center, Department of International Health, Immunology, and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁸ Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁹ Centre for Australian Climate and Weather Research, CSIRO, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia.
¹⁰ Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
¹¹ VLSCI Life Sciences Computation Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
¹² Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada, United States of America.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Crowdsourcing / statistics & numerical data*
Geographic Information Systems
Humans
Information Dissemination
Models, Statistical*
Oceanography*
Oceans and Seas
Ships
Social Participation*
Workforce

Grants and funding

The authors acknowledge financial support from the School of BABS (University of New South Wales), the ithree Institute (University of Technology Sydney), the Costerton Biofilm Center (University of Copenhagen), the Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (Nanyang Technological University), the Desert Research Institute, and the University of Victoria. JTC was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. RN was supported by an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to Jonathan A. Eisen. FML was supported by a fellowship from the Australian Research Council (DE120102610). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.