Coastal Estuarine Data
Archaeology and Rescue
Original
Rescued
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What is CEDAR?
Coastal and Estuarine Data/Document Archeology and
Rescue
"Data Archaeology" is used to describe the process of seeking out,
restoring, evaluating, correcting, and interpreting historical data
sets. "Data Rescue" refers to the effort to save data at risk of
being lost to the science community.
Why CEDAR?
There is a significant number of documents and data related to
the
marine environment of Florida that have never been published, and
are thus not used by scientific community and academia. These documents
and data are important because they can help define the state of the
coastal environment in the past, and thus are essential when evaluating the
current state of degradation and setting restoration goals. Due to
the nature of the paper and electronic media on which they exist, and in
some cases the conditions in which they are housed, the data and documents
are in jeopardy of being irretrievably lost.
These materials cannot be located using electronic and manual
bibliographic searches because they have not been catalogued or
archived in libraries.
CEDAR is funded by the South Florida Ecosystem
Restoration
Prediction and Modeling Program
SFERPM, a
program
conducted by NOAA's Coastal Ocean Program Center for Sponsored
Coastal Ocean Research, in association with the South
Florida Living Marine Resources Programs SFLMR.
Action Plan | Documents
Rescued | Contact Adriana
Cantillo or Linda Pikula
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