Scientific Data Under Threat in Today’s America
summary
Federal research grants drop 20–30% in 2025, staff cuts lead NOAA to decommission and stop refreshing long‑running climate and biodiversity series, and many datasets lack usable metadata or standard formats. PANGAEA ingests EU‑backed and fleeing US datasets, normalizes metadata, issues persistent identifiers (DOIs), and exposes records via Elasticsearch/Postgres with HTTP content negotiation so apps get machine‑readable formats. Some critical series are rescued, but weeks‑to‑months tape retrieval and missing provenance mean many records remain lost or incomplete.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:51Political interference in science
- 3:01Funding cuts and banned terms
- 6:18Data loss and personnel cuts
- 8:05European response and data rescue
- 10:12PANGAEA and FAIR data principles
- 14:10Scientists seeking data archiving
- 15:54Global collaboration for resilience
- 18:21Q&A session
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