Elexis Trinity. Completed Sketch Borrowed Data Sketch. (2022).

BORROWED DATA 1: The Ocean Archive Online

Ocean Archive – https://ocean-archive.org/archive

An open source decentralized online archive of transdisciplinary materials, objects and artifacts including images, sounds, documents, and other collections relevant to ocean studies, which is meant to foster collaborative and multidisciplinary (among other forms of scholarly) work centered on ocean histories, science, technology, and medicine. The diversity of its source materials and disciplinary perspectives, structure of its organization, citation practices, searchability and hyperlinked content, and the open source/decentralized emphasis of this platform make it a particularly useful, accessible, and exciting source of data, as well as a great place to link in with transnational and inter/trans/multidisciplinary streams of research relevant to my interests. Its broader website also includes maps, storytelling and community functions, links to current and recent conferences and conference materials, and other utilities which are also of value to researchers interested in the oceans and seas.

BORROWED DATA 2: MERIDIAN IQOE Project Archives

The Marine Environmental Research Infrastructure for Data Integration and Application Network (MERIDIAN) Consortium’s International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE) archives – https://iqoe.org.

This international project’s associated literature library, acoustic data portal, archive of marine animal sounds and information about acoustic observing systems represent useful resources for drawing into my research information (and metadata) about environmental applications and interpretations of ocean sound data, as well as insights into how such data is used by scholars, scientists and policymakers to construct understandings of climate futures and outcomes, applied conceptualizations of the relations among the natural, technological, and sociocultural (or envirotechnical nature of oceanic space and placemaking), the construction and interpretation of anthropogenic noise pollution upon oceanic environs, and anthropogenic impacts upon oceans and seas (as well as their residual impacts upon human and other forms of life), more broadly.

BORROWED DATA 3: National Centers for Environmental Information & NOAA Central Library – https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/data/access/access.html

The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Central Library and Centers for Environmental Information maintain both physical and digital archives rich in a broad array of oceanic and atmospheric data from their searchable digital atlas to their extensive collections of documents, images, footage, recordings and other archival data of historical and contemporary relevance to global and national marine sciences and technology, environmental and climate science, among others, making this resource a centrally valuable one for those interested in the construction of oceanic environments, the envirotechnical processes of conceptualizing place, making knowledge, and projecting futures with, for and about the oceans and seas. (Note: same applies to equally relevant MBLWHOI data library and archives.)