OTS is celebrating its 50th Anniversary (http://www.ots50.org) in conjunction with the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation Annual Meeting (http://atbc2013.org/) in San Jose, Costa Rica, June 23-27, 2013.
In the spirit of the celebration and in the interest of preserving the tremendous data legacy collected at OTS field stations, the OTS Science Committee is launching a program to locate and archive the foundational datasets, i.e. the "Golden Datasets". Golden Datasets are the pivotal historical datasets that typify the best of OTS science. Included among these data sets could be multi-investigator project datasets such as those of the PLOTS, GAPS, and HUERTOS projects or individual data sets of special value from the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. We are asking for nominations by the tropical research community to help us identify these valuable datasets. We are especially interested in early datasets that might be endangered by retirements or the passing of pioneer investigators. Please help the OTS Science Committee identify these pivotal datasets by nominating datasets that meet these criteria (including your own datasets). The OTS Science Committee will choose the highest priority data sets and make every reasonable effort to assure their long-term preservation in accordance with OTS data policies. Click below to nominate a dataset: http://www.ots50.org/history/golden-datasets Please pass this message on to appropriate parties. For more information, contact Dr. Steve Oberbauer, Florida International University [mailto:oberb...@fiu.edu] Steve Oberbauer Professor of Biological Sciences Graduate Program Director Department of Biological Sciences Florida International University Miami FL 33199 305-348-2580 oberb...@fiu.edu<mailto:oberb...@fiu.edu>
