Diatoms of North AmericaThe Iberoamerican diatom network and database
Description: The 2023 ISDR networking award “DiatomS mEEt Databases: resources and practices to enable large-scale ecological research (SEED)” aims to improve the quality of open-access diatom data for enabling large-scale ecological synthesis in Iberoamerican waters. In this talk I will emphasize the importance of building trust within a community of data generators and stewards to inspire the inspire the next generation of diatom ecologists who will create, share, and utilize regional and continental scale diatom counts. I will conclude by introducing the global neo-paleoecological database Neotoma as a proposed platform in SEED to maintain a minimum level of standardization (e.g., formats, units) and taxonomic consistency through assigning regional data stewards, while assuring a long-term data archiving.
Intended audience: Diatomists at any career stage researching ecology and paleolimnology of diatoms.
