BiG-CZ Data Demo Center

The Community-Driven BiG CZ Software System for Integration and Analysis of Bio- and Geoscience Data in the Critical Zone

An open-source software system specifically designed to solve the challenges of managing, sharing, analyzing and integrating diverse data from of biological and geological (BiG) disciplines for Critical Zone (CZ) science.

BiG CZ software is being built upon the Observations Data Model v2.0 (ODM2), a new information model aimed at facilitating greater interoperability across scientific disciplines and domain cyberinfrastructures that serve such diverse data as: hydrological time series, soil and sediment geochemistry, biodiversity surveys, oceanographic sensor profiles, multi-dimensional spectra, and more (Horsburgh et al. 2016).

This site hosts Jupyter notebooks demonstrating the use of ODM2 and related tools to access, manage and analyze data from the Critical Zone. Most notebooks are written in Python.