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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

A collection of over 1,400 postcards primarily depicting Southern California, Baja California, and the American Southwest. Major themes include San Diego's areas of interest, the US-Mexico border region, Tijuana, Ensenada, Mexicali, Tecate, the California missions, and the US Navy. Popular tourist destinations such as the Hotel del Coronado, Balboa Park, and La Jolla Cove are particularly well-represented, as are postcards featuring the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition and the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. The collection was scanned in its entirety and may be searched by date, geographical region, publisher, subject matter, and key words from captions and …

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

Municipal and government documents relating to official policies, civil matters, contracts, litigation, war, and state infrastructure development in Baja California, including Santo Tomás, Rosarito, Mexicali, Ensenada, Tecate, Tijuana, and other towns and cities. Documents include official handwritten correspondence, petitions, requests to purchase land, settlements and maps, mine registers, and other materials that document daily life and municipal administration in Baja, throughout the turbulent period including the Mexican War, 1846-1848, with special emphasis on the Mexican Revolution period, 1910-1920.

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

Public Data Collection of the "Bangarang Project", the dissertation project of Eric Keen at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. These data are used in multiple chapters of that dissertation as well as their corresponding peer-reviewed publications. More information about this research can be found at its website: rvbangarang.org.

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program

Bear Facts was the newsletter published by the Oceanids, a service and social organization promoting friendship and services to the UC San Diego community. Oceanids began as a women’s organization in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and remains active today. The newsletter is currently known as Oceanids News and is available through the organization’s website.

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

This collection shows bee behaviors and methods used to study bee behaviors.

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program

The Ben Yellen Papers document grassroots social and political activism on the subjects of farm labor, commercial agriculture, and western water policy in Southern California. In 1942, Ben Yellen (1907-1994) settled in the town of Brawley in Imperial County, California, the center of one of the richest and most productive agricultural regions in the United States. In the late 1950s, Yellen initiated a protracted battle against the large-scale growers who dominated the region's economy and their representative institutions, including the Desert Growers Association and, especially, the Imperial Irrigation District (IID). The digitized portion of the collection focuses on Yellen's self-published …

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives