PANGAEA & WDC-MARE

The PANGAEA and the WDC-MARE are operating on a longterm basis. The institutional frame is supplied by MARUM in cooperation with the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Bremerhaven. Data management services on an international level are supplied since 1996. PANGAEA was and is a partner in numerous projects (european and international) covering all fields of environmental sciences, prominent ones being JGOFS, IMAGES and the European part of International Ocean Drilling Project (IODP). A complete list is available at www.pangaea.de/Projects
In addition during the last years the PANGAEA group got engaged in a number of projects supporting spatial data infrastructures (SDI). PANGAEA is the lead partner for the implementation of portals and infrastructures in the NoE EUR-OCEANS, ESONET, IP CarboOcean and more recently for IODP (SEDIS). The group has substantiated knowledge and practical experience on international standards as ISO19100 familiy of standards, the OGCs Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) concept (incl. SensorML), Open Archives Initiative protocols (OAI-PMH), GRID technologies, data portals, and web technologies in general.