Recommended repositories for publication and long-term storage of data related to offshore research

As part of RWSC’s mission to facilitate coordinated research and analysis for wildlife, marine ecosystems, and offshore development, the Data Governance Subcommittee has been working with other taxa- and habitat-focused RWSC Subcommittees to identify and recommend long-term storage options for each type of data described in RWSC’s Science Plan. In addition, entities that fund and/or require offshore development and wildlife or environmental data collection and research have described a need for simple, long-term storage and access to data that they have funded, as well as easy and centralized public discovery of, and access to, these datasets and research outputs. These documents share the vetted list of existing data repositories for each type of offshore research data, and the criteria used to asses these and many more potential data storage places.