ESSIC scientist Liqing Jiang contributed to the OAE Data Management Protocol, which outlines recommendations for producing consistent data and metadata for Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) research projects. Jiang served as one of the three Co-Leads of the initiative, a collaborative effort with Submarine Scientific, NOAA and dozens of ocean researchers.
The document marks one of the first attempts to provide a common data protocol for marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR)-OAE data collected from academia, government, non-profit, and industry, with an emphasis on making them findable and discoverable from shared data repositories to facilitate future data synthesis efforts. This is in-line with FAIR data sharing principles in an effort to make data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. It will be a living document and continually improve to reflect best known scientific practice.
Liqing is a Research Scientist currently working under cooperative agreement for NOAA- National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). He is an oceanographer specializing in the study of inorganic carbon cycling and ocean acidification, with particular emphasis on data management, quality control, synthesis, and the development of global and coastal oceanographic data products.
The document is now publicly available: OAE Data Management Protocol.
