2439640
Cooperative Agreement
Overview
Grant Description
R2R: Fair and open data management services for the academic research fleet 2025-2029.
Since 2009, the Rolling Deck to Repository Program (R2R) has provided a comprehensive shore-side data management system for underway data from the US academic research fleet.
Each vessel routinely operates a suite of “underway” environmental sensors that continuously collect a wide variety of meteorological, water column, and seafloor/subseafloor data, regardless of the specific mission of each cruise.
Following open science goals and FAIR principles for findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data, R2R provides preservation, documentation, accessibility, and enhanced usability of these data.
With R2R, these data, collected at significant expense, become available to support research, education, policy, and resource management, now and into the future.
The University of California-San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UCSD-SIO) proposes an additional 5 years of ongoing operations for R2R covering: collecting post-cruise data from vessel operators; organizing data and metadata; assessing data quality on select data types; creating select standardized data products; supporting human and API discovery and access; and submitting data to NCEI for additional long-term archive, access, and inclusion in global products (for data types accepted by NCEI).
R2R will continue supporting at-sea event logging and the near-real-time quality assessment of underway meteorological and surface ocean measurements through the Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) data center.
In addition, we propose new efforts around a needed cyberinfrastructure revamp, a collaboration with vessel operators/technicians to improve data fairness at the point of collection; machine-readable near-real-time operational event logs to improve data breakout and management; and piloting cloud-based access and analysis capabilities.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
Subawards are planned for this award.
Since 2009, the Rolling Deck to Repository Program (R2R) has provided a comprehensive shore-side data management system for underway data from the US academic research fleet.
Each vessel routinely operates a suite of “underway” environmental sensors that continuously collect a wide variety of meteorological, water column, and seafloor/subseafloor data, regardless of the specific mission of each cruise.
Following open science goals and FAIR principles for findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data, R2R provides preservation, documentation, accessibility, and enhanced usability of these data.
With R2R, these data, collected at significant expense, become available to support research, education, policy, and resource management, now and into the future.
The University of California-San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UCSD-SIO) proposes an additional 5 years of ongoing operations for R2R covering: collecting post-cruise data from vessel operators; organizing data and metadata; assessing data quality on select data types; creating select standardized data products; supporting human and API discovery and access; and submitting data to NCEI for additional long-term archive, access, and inclusion in global products (for data types accepted by NCEI).
R2R will continue supporting at-sea event logging and the near-real-time quality assessment of underway meteorological and surface ocean measurements through the Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) data center.
In addition, we propose new efforts around a needed cyberinfrastructure revamp, a collaboration with vessel operators/technicians to improve data fairness at the point of collection; machine-readable near-real-time operational event logs to improve data breakout and management; and piloting cloud-based access and analysis capabilities.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
Subawards are planned for this award.
Funding Goals
NOT APPLICABLE
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding / Funding Agency
Place of Performance
La Jolla,
California
92093-1500
United States
Geographic Scope
Single Zip Code
Related Opportunity
NOT APPLICABLE
Analysis Notes
Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 92% from $1,958,430 to $3,764,217.
University Of California San Diego was awarded
R2R Academic Research Fleet Data Management Services 2025-2029
Cooperative Agreement 2439640
worth $3,764,217
from the Division of Ocean Sciences in January 2025 with work to be completed primarily in La Jolla California United States.
The grant
has a duration of 5 years and
was awarded through assistance program 47.050 Geosciences.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 9/10/25
Period of Performance
1/1/25
Start Date
12/31/29
End Date
Funding Split
$3.8M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$3.8M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Transaction History
Modifications to 2439640
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
2439640
SAI Number
None
Award ID URI
SAI EXEMPT
Awardee Classifications
Public/State Controlled Institution Of Higher Education
Awarding Office
490604 DIVISION OF OCEAN SCIENCES
Funding Office
490604 DIVISION OF OCEAN SCIENCES
Awardee UEI
QJ8HMDK7MRM3
Awardee CAGE
7H459
Performance District
CA-50
Senators
Dianne Feinstein
Alejandro Padilla
Alejandro Padilla
Modified: 9/10/25