NFDI4Earth - NFDI Consortium Earth System Sciences

• Subject Area: Geosciences ; Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 460036893

NFDI4Earth addresses digital needs of Earth System (ES) Sciences (ESS). ES scientists cooperate in international and interdisciplinary networks with the overarching aim to understand the functioning and interactions within the Earth system and address the multiple challenges of global change. NFDI4Earth is a community-driven process providing researchers with FAIR, coherent, and open access to all relevant ES data, to innovative research data management (RDM) and data science methods. The NFDI4Earth 2021-26 work plan comprises four task areas (TA): TA1 2Participate will engage as broadly as possible with the ESS community and secures that NFDI4Earth is driven by community requirements: Pilots, small agile projects proposed by the community leverage existing technologies and manifest the researchers’ RDM needs. The Incubator Lab identifies promising new tools and scouts for trends in ES Data Science. EduHubs produce open, ready to use educational resources on implementing FAIR principles in the ESS. The Academy will connect young researchers and their data-driven research to NFDI4Earth. TA2 2Facilitate realizes the OneStop4All as the web-based entry point to FAIR, open and innovative RDM in ESS. It supports on how to find, access, share, publish and work with ES data. Specific user requests beyond the scope of the OneStop4All will be routed to a distributed User Support Network. TA2 will also unlock the wealth of data that exists in governmental data repositories and will collaborate with all services on supporting long-term archiving. By advancing tools, TA2 showcases user-driven best-practise examples of novel ESS data integration and analysis methods (e.g. Earth data cubes). TA3 2Interoperate aims at interoperability and coherence of the heterogeneous, segmented range of ESS RDM services. The ecosystems of ESS (meta-)data and software repositories, data science services and collaboration platforms get integrated iteratively into a common NFDI4Earth architecture. Based on commonly agreed-upon standards TA3 provide consistent methods for a self-evaluation of RDM offerings. TA3 works on NFDI cross-cutting topics and makes outcomes accessible as a Living Handbook. It ensures co-operation in international RDM initiatives and standardisation bodies. TA4 2Coordinate facilitates the overall management of the NFDI4Earth consortium. TA4 acts as central support service and coordination of the technical implementations. It also offers virtual research environments. The NFDI4Earth Coordination Office will support the NFDI4Earth community in day-to-day operations and acts as the NFDI4Earth point of contact. It develops a commonly agreed model for a sustainable operation of NFDI4Earth. A commonly accepted NFDI4Earth FAIRness and Openness Commitment is key to fostering a cultural change towards FAIR and Open RDM in the ESS community.

• DFG Programme: NFDI technical and methodological consortia
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Dresden
• Co-Applicant Institution: Alfred-Wegener-Institut; Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung; Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH; Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover; Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ); Hochschule Bochum; Karlsruher Institut für Technologie; Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (MPG); Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie (MPI-BGC); Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SGN); Universität Leipzig
• Participating Institution: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften; Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg; Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG); Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH); Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR); Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel; Constructor University Bremen; Deutsche Allianz für Meeresforschung e.V.; Wissenschaftsforum; Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD); Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI); Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR); Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ); Forschungsinstitut für Nachhaltigkeit (RIFS); Forschungszentrum Jülich; Freie Universität Berlin; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena; GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel; Generaldirektion der Staatlichen Archive Bayerns; Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; HafenCity Universität Hamburg (HCU); Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ); Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES); Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH; Leibniz-Institut für Angewandte Geophysik (LIAG); Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB); im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.; Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung e.V. (TROPOS); Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung (IÖR) e.V.; Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e.V.; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Museum für Naturkunde; Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung (MfN); Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK); Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen; Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn; Ruhr-Universität Bochum, since 12/2022; Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB); Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg; Technische Universität Berlin; Technische Universität Braunschweig, since 11/2023; Technische Universität Darmstadt; Technische Universität Dortmund; Technische Universität München (TUM); Universität Bielefeld, since 8/2023; Universität Bremen; Universität Hamburg; Universität Hohenheim, since 11/2023; Universität Münster; Universität Potsdam; Universität zu Köln; Water Science Alliance e.V.; c/o Technische Universität Dresden
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Lars Bernard
• Co-Spokespersons: Professor Dr. Peter Braesicke; Privatdozent Dr. Wolfgang Graf zu Castell-Rüdenhausen, since 10/2022; Professor Dr. Stephan Frickenhaus; Dr. Hildegard Gödde; Privatdozent Dr. Dominik Hezel, since 9/2022; Professor Dr. Carsten Keßler, since 10/2021; Professor Dr. Miguel Darío Mahecha; Professor Dr. Horst Marschall, until 9/2022; Professor Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel; Professor Dr. Markus Reichstein; Professorin Dr.-Ing. Monika Sester; Hannes Thiemann; Professor Dr. Frederik Tilmann, until 10/2022; Dr. Claus Weiland, since 10/2021; Professor Dr. Karsten Wesche, until 10/2021; Professor Dr. Andreas Wytzisk-Arens, until 10/2021