The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $1,054,276 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Wisconsin System to advance the Neotoma Paleoecology Database. The award will allow Neotoma to scale up its efforts to support higher rates of data additions, streamlined data curation, and improved solutions for the research community studying biodiversity dynamics driven by environmental change. Key activities include enhancing the data bulk uploader system, implementing an embargo manager for early data contributions, improving the hierarchical vocabulary and taxonomy manager, and developing targeted training resources for scientists, especially early career researchers and those from underserved regions. This funding will help Neotoma continue to grow as a high-quality, expert-curated open data resource for paleoenvironmental data to support federal requirements for sharing publicly funded research and advance global change studies.
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