Summary of RT Survey of Field/Marine Station Director and Managers, Spring 2017

Abstract

We hoped to gain a general perspective on the use and needs of stations for cyberinfrastructure, and further to assess their use of cloud resources, and willingness to adopt cloud resources, such as the NSF-funded Jetstream.This process was initiated by corresponding with colleagues in the field of ecology to gain a general idea of needs (see reply from David Inouye, Appendix 1) and by reviewing white papers and surveys by the National Association of Marine Laboratories and Organization of Biological Field Stations (NAML and OBFS; ref. 1-3).