UC San Diego

The records of the American Friends Service Committee - U.S.-Mexico Border Program document the work of the organization primarily between 1982 and 2003, when Roberto Martinez was program director. USMBP was established to monitor local law enforcement practices, support immigrant labor rights, promote understanding of immigration, and support strategic litigation that would have an impact on immigration policies. In support of this advocacy work, the collection contains abuse complaint case files, dated 1977-2001, from individuals in and around the San Diego-Mexico border region reporting violence, harassment, and abuse by law enforcement officers. For many years, to protect the privacy of ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

In 1991, the American Institute of Wine & Food donated half of its library, about 400 volumes, to UC San Diego. Those volumes focused largely on European cuisine and culinary history from the 17th to early 19th centuries. In the years since, UC San Diego continues to add materials that support the campus’ academic interests in Mexico, the Pacific Rim, Latin America, California, and the American West. The collection now numbers more than 7,000 volumes and continues to grow. The objects here offer a taste of the AIWF Collection. Albeit a small percentage of the collection, they represent the collection’s ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

In 1981, Anthropologist Joan Larcom traveled with Photographer Ann Skinner-Jones to Vanuatu to create a photographic essay of the people and culture during the first anniversary of the country's independence from France and the United Kingdom. The collection focuses on the people's experiences of independence and new nationhood, mostly on the island of Malakula, where local people have refereed the interface between politics, custom and religion by re-categorizing tradition in creative ways.

Institution: UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library

The Mediterranean and desert regions of Southern California include some of the most diverse bee faunas (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) in the world. Due to human development, large portions of Mediterranean scrub and desert ecosystems in Southern California have been destroyed or profoundly degraded. This trend of habitat destruction and degradation is expected to continue as population pressures continue to grow and as Earth’s climate changes. This ongoing inventory project seeks to document all the bee species that occur within the bounds of San Diego County. Our aim is to not only make this information available for conservation managers and scientists, but ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program

Collection of printed and manuscript materials created between 1965 and 1998 by 23 distinct revolutionary groups in Mexico. The collection is particularly strong in ephemeral communiques and revolutionary periodicals such as "13 de junio," "Madera" and "Militante." Images were digitized from originals held by the UC San Diego Library.

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

Data curators at the UC San Diego Library have the privilege of working with researchers from a wide range of scientific disciplines as they prepare data for the Library’s Research Data Collections repository. The visually stunning nature of some of these research data sets has inspired the Library’s Research Data Curation Program (RDCP) to host its inaugural Art of Science contest, which aims to celebrate the beauty that can emerge during scientific exploration and raise awareness of the Library’s data curation services. In February 2021, UC San Diego and affiliate students, postdoctoral and faculty researchers were invited to submit images ...

Institution: UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library

This collection includes separate data sets of atmospheric aerosol submicron particle composition that include organic functional group concentrations at locations within the Arctic. Measurements include analysis of ambient aerosol particles sampled on Teflon filters that were analyzed by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR, Bruker Tensor 27) spectroscopy in a temperature and humidity controlled clean room. The FTIR spectrum for each filter was analyzed with an automated algorithm that baselined the spectra. Absorptivity and molar masses were used to convert peak area at specific wavenumbers to mass for the organic functional groups: hydroxyl, alkane, amine, carboxylic acid, and carbonyl. The total organic ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program

This collection contains meteorology, wave, and current data from Wave Glider Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs) gathered in a series of field deployments conducted off the coast of Southern California from May 2020 to December 2021. Our approach involved operations in close proximity to fixed National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP), and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) moored buoy assets, which provided ground-truth data to characterize the quality of the Wave Glider measurements over a range of field conditions. Please refer to Amador et al., 2022 (in review) for more information on processing and motion compensation routines.

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program

This collection contains the lifecycles of global atmospheric river (AR) objects. This data was produced by isolating regions of enhanced IVT transport events by applying the Atmospheric River-CONNected objECT (AR-CONNECT) algorithm. AR-CONNECT is a four-dimensional (4D) object-oriented algorithm, adapted from the CONNECT algorithm developed by a team of researchers from the University of California, Irvine [Sellars et al., 2013, 2015, 2017]. The algorithm uses a seeded region growing segmentation technique to segment AR lifecycles according to their high-intensity cores. AR-CONNECT determines the lifecycles of an AR by using a flood-filling algorithm to group discrete AR timeslices where they are contiguous ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program

This collection contains raw data from a REMUS-100 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) deployed over the Makua reef shelf, Oahu, Hawaii on 6-8 September 2013. The dataset includes the vehicle’s location (latitude, longitude), orientation (yaw, pitch, roll), and time (UTC) as well as pressure and velocity measurements from upward- and downward-looking 1200 kHz RDI Doppler velocity logs (DVLs) onboard. Velocity data were collected in ship coordinates. Hydrodynamic surveys consisted of mow patterns with repeated transects in both the cross-and alongshore directions in water depths ranging from 5 to 30 m. The surveys spanned an alongshore distance of about 1600 m, with ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program