In our A-DBO Cruise Package you will find our current information on cruise plans for the region, the positions for the A-DBO key sampling sites and a template of the metadata file to be used for reporting back your observations.
The metadata sheet is established as our common living document on data availability to be shared rather swiftly after each field season. We welcome any parameters describing biological, chemical, or physical sea-ice, water-column or seabed properties (these can be selected from a given list, or added manually). Please note that the framework for collaborations extend geographically beyond the pronounced key sites, and is open to all actors within our region who identify an added value to or from our observational network. The metadata reports are currently sent to us, or brought to the A-DBO fall meetings. Please contact us for further information.
For improved comparability of data, and methodological agreement between various research groups, the A-DBO will work to formalize its best practices for sampling and analysis of our observations. For now, we warmly recommend the extensive collection of protocols by The Nansen Legacy project (https://doi.org/10.7557/nlrs.6684).
