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  1. Collection

    Data from: Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves

    • Height changes and basal melt rates of Antarctic ice shelves from satellite remote sensing, 1994–2018.
    • Date: 1994 to 2018
  2. Collection

    Data from: Towards Implementing AI Post-processing in Weather and Climate: Proposed Actions from the Oxford 2019 Workshop

    • We present an open-access experimental testbed database of clean weather and climate data on which traditional methods have been implemented, in order to set benchmarking points for the rapid development of new machine learning methods.
    • Date: 2018 to 2020
  3. Collection

    Gatherings: Event, Agency, and Program

    • Gatherings is a mixed-media performative lecture that studies the nature of events and new forms of awareness, cognition, and material agency that emerge in the wake of technological change.
    • Date: 2011
  4. Collection

    The Atmospheric River-CONNected objECT (AR-CONNECT) algorithm applied to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA V2) - 1983 to 2016

    • The Atmospheric River-CONNected objECT (CONNECT) algorithm is applied to global Integrated Water Vapor Transport (IVT) data from the NASA MERRA-2 reanalysis product for the period 1983 to 2016.
    • Date: 2019 to 2020
  5. Collection

    Transient Rip-currents on the Stratified Inner-shelf

    • Transient Rip-currents (TRCs) are an important coastal phenomenon, driving cross-shore surf-zone and inner-shelf exchange. Archived herein are idealized numerical simulation output used to evaluate TRC effects on the stratified inner-shelf.
    • Date: 2019 to 2020
  6. Collection

    Data from: DNA damage induced during mitosis undergoes DNA repair synthesis

    • A study of the DNA repair response to laser-induced DNA damage in selected mitotic chromosomes.
    • Date: 2010 to 2019
  7. Collection

    Flat Panel Impact and Residual Strength Testing and Characterization by Ultrasonic and X-Ray Computed Tomography Non-Destructive Evaluation

    • Flat composite panel impacts and residual strength testing. Impact damage characterized by X-ray computed tomography and ultrasonic scanning and residual strength testing characterized by digital image correlation.
    • Date: 2017-07 to 2017-09
  8. Collection

    Alice Notley Artworks

    • A selection of artworks by American visual artist and poet Alice Notley. Images include collages, fans, masks and sketches.
    • Date: 1974-2004
  9. Collection

    American Institute of Wine & Food Culinary Collection

    • Selected materials from the American Institute of Wine & Food Culinary Collection.
    • Date: 1610-1985
  10. Collection

    Spherical Sound Search

    • Video and audio recordings of virtual reality concerto, mixed reality minuet, and augmented reality rock performances from a concert that presented Extended Reality (XR) musical instrument research.
    • Date: 2020-01 to 2020-02
  11. Collection

    Data from: Influence of Carbene and Phosphine Ligands on the Catalytic Activity of Gold Complexes in the Hydroamination and Hydrohydrazination of Alkynes

    • Several carbene structures and reaction intermediates for the Au catalyzed hydroamination of alkynes were calculated with Density Functional Theory Methods.
    • Date: 2019 to 2020
  12. Collection

    Hydrographic Doppler Sonar System (HDSS): Acoustic ocean current profiling data from the R/V Revelle

    • The Hydrographic Doppler Sonar System on the R/V Revelle provides profiles of absolute ocean current and acoustic scattering strength in support of scientific operations with 50kHz & 140kHz sonars capable of sampling between 20m and 700–1100m and between 20m and 150–350m, respectively.
    • Date: 2006 to 2017
  13. Collection

    William Rodman and Margaret Critchlow Photographs

    • Photographs taken by Canadian Anthropologists Margaret Critchlow and William Rodman during research trips conducted in Vanuatu.
    • Date: 1970 to 1995
  14. Collection

    Data from: Superconductivity Found in Meteorites

    • This data details the discovery and analysis of superconducting material in two meteorites. These are the first superconducting materials found in extraterrestrial samples and the superconducting phases are characterized as alloys of lead, tin and indium.
    • Date: 2016 to 2019
  15. Collection

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Open Data Initiative

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Data Science Institute shares some of LLNL’s challenging and unique data sets with the larger data science community through its Open Data Initiative.
    • Date: July 2015 to present
  16. Collection

    Tell Us How UC It: Exhibit 2017

    • Tell Us How UC It: A Living Archive debuted with a physical exhibit and a panel on student activism on February 1, 2017. The exhibit included history, student perspectives, and real-time feedback, all of which are now part of the collection.
    • Date: February 2017 to May 2017
  17. Collection

    Tell Us How UC It: History of Student Activism Timeline

    • The Tell Us How UC It: History of Student Activism Timeline presents events and incidents from UC San Diego’s history that affected the campus climate for students in such a way that they were compelled to act or react.
    • Date: 1960-2016
  18. Collection

    Tell Us How UC It: Course Curriculum and Events

    • The Tell Us How UC It project has consisted of a number of course collaborations from workshops to one-shot classes.
    • Date: 2017
  19. Collection

    Tell Us How UC It: A Living Archive

    • The UC San Diego Library created a “living archive” as an alternative way to highlight awareness, provide a space for dialogue, preserve and document the events related to student activism at UC San Diego.
    • Date: 1960-2017
  20. Collection

    Data from: Contrasting Local and Long-Range-Transported Warm Ice-Nucleating Particles During an Atmospheric River in Coastal California, USA

    • Data, modeling results and analyses supporting research into meteorology and ice nucleating particles.
    • Date: 2016-03-05 to 2018-05-01
  21. Collection

    Theodore Schwartz Recordings

    • A collection of sound and video recordings from Theodore Schwartz, Melanesian anthropologist, UC San Diego Professor and specialist on the Manus people of Papua New Guinea. Includes interviews, ceremonies, lectures, songs and linguistic studies relating to his expeditions to the Admiralty Islands.
    • Access: Restricted View
    • Date: 1953 - 1998
  22. Collection

    Data from: Trade-offs in motivating volunteer effort: Experimental evidence on voluntary contributions to science

    • Data used in the analysis reported in "Trade-offs in motivating volunteer effort: Experimental evidence on voluntary contributions to science" (Lyons & Zhang, 2019).
    • Date: 2017-06 to 2017-08
  23. Collection

    MITgcm 3-daily global sea surface temperature, ocean currents, nitrate and phytoplankton biomass (1992 - 2016)

    • 3-daily averaged sea surface temperature, ocean currents (u, v), nitrate and phytoplankton biomass for the 35 types in the top 10m of the model. Model output has been interpolated from the natural grid onto 1/5th degree resolution.
    • Date: May 2016
  24. Collection

    Data from: Observations of surface cobbles at two southern California beaches

    • Beach elevations were surveyed quarterly between January 2008 and July 2018 on cross-shore transects from the back beach to about 8 m water depth using GPS equipped vehicles.
    • Date: 2008 to 2018
  25. Collection

    Data from: The Impact of Job Training on Temporary Worker Performance: Field Experimental Evidence from Insurance Sales Agents

    • Data and Stata script used to generate the analysis presented in "The Impact of Job Training on Temporary Worker Performance: Field Experimental Evidence from Insurance Sales Agents."
    • Date: 2015-01-01 to 2016-02-29
  26. Collection

    Data from: Mesopelagic fishes dominate otolith record of past two millennia in the Santa Barbara Basin

    • Two data files for Santa Barbara Basin, (1) individual fossil otolith data (geometric measurements, shape characteristics and elemental composition); (2) time series of otolith deposition rate and climate proxies.
    • Date: 1993 to 2015
  27. Collection

    Data from: A Glimpse through Time and Space: Visualizing Spatial Continuity and History-making at Çatalhöyük, Turkey

    • This collection includes 3-D models, derived 3-D renders, Unity 3D asset packages, a Win64 3-D app, and related metadata that reconstruct both spatially and temporally (4-D) the ‘Shrine’ 10 sequence at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey
    • Date: 2017 to 2019
  28. Collection

    Data from: Validation of geodetic seafloor benchmark stability using structure-from-motion and seafloor pressure data

    • Data used to validate structure-from-motion underwater as a potential geodetic site imaging tool by confirming 3D modeled measurements with well-constrained heights determined from pressure measurements.
    • Date: 2017-09-06
  29. Collection

    Solomon Sea SPICE Mooring Data

    • Moorings were deployed in the Solomon Sea outflow channels to measure water velocity, temperature, and salinity as a part of an international experiment to observe and monitor the ocean circulation of the southwest Pacific Ocean.
    • Date: 2012-07-15 to 2015-08-16
  30. Collection

    Data Science & Engineering Master of Advanced Study (DSE MAS) Capstone Projects

    • This collection contains the capstone projects for the Data Science & Engineering (DSE) Master of Advanced Study (MAS) program at UC San Diego.
    • Date: 2019 to present
  31. Collection

    Data from: Implications of Byproduct Chemistry in Nanoparticle Synthesis

    • Absorption spectra of organic byproducts of tetrachloroaurate reduction by 2-(N-morpholino)ethanesulfonate (MES) were calculated via time-dependent density functional theory. These include small organic molecules, organic MES oligomers, and Au(I) complexes.
    • Date: 2016 to 2018
  32. Collection

    Music Collection

    • Collection of Music-related materials from UC San Diego students and faculty, as well as prominent figures of the contemporary music scene in Southern California.
    • Date: 1950 -
  33. Collection

    Peter Yates Sound Recording Collection

    • Peter Yates was an important radio personality and concert presenter in the Los Angeles avant-garde music scene from 1939 through the mid-1960s.  The collection consists of concerts, interviews with composers, lectures by Yates, and radio broadcasts.
    • Access: Restricted to UC San Diego use only
    • Date: 1939 - mid 1960's
  34. Collection

    Integrated Vapor Transport Forecast Models, Reanalysis, and Postprocessing Machine Learning Models for the North American West Coast [2008-2017]

    • Integrated Vapor Transport (IVT) for the GFS forecast model and the MERRA2 reanalysis for the North American West Coast and Eastern Pacific. Additionally, this dataset contains the convolutional neural networks used to post-process this forecast.
    • Date: 2018-01-11 to 2018-04-13
  35. Collection

    University Art Gallery Closure Events, 2016

    • Images and events related to the threatened closure of the University Art Gallery in 2016.
    • Date: 2016
  36. Collection

    EarthCube User Scenario Collection

    • A collection of earth scientists' descriptions of their cyberinfrastructure needs, developed for the NSF EarthCube program.
    • Date: 2015-05-01 to 2016-09-01
  37. Collection

    Scripps-KAUST Regional Integrated Prediction System (SKRIPS)

    • A regional coupled ocean–atmosphere model (based on MITgm, WRF, and ESMF) to study air--sea feedbacks.
    • Date: 2019
  38. Collection

    Data from: Continuous Evaluation of Ligand Protein Predictions: A Weekly Community Challenge for Drug Docking

    • All structures and RMSDs used in Continuous Evaluation of Ligand Protein Predictions: A Weekly Community Challenge for Drug Docking are provided here.
    • Date: 2017 to 2018
  39. Collection

    Mexican Broadsides

    • This collection comprises broadsides (single and double-sided, one-sheet documents) produced in Mexico between the early 1600s and 1899.
    • Date: Early 1600s to 1899
  40. Collection

    Data from: Increasing STEM Undergraduate Participation in Innovative Activities: Field Experimental Evidence

    • Measures of performance on an innovation contest by whether or not participants receive randomized encouragement, and whether participants self-selected into the contest or joined after receiving a monetary inducement for doing so.
    • Date: 2017-01 to 2017-07
  41. Collection

    Plant-pollinator interaction networks in coastal sage scrub reserves and fragments in San Diego

    • Data here describe the interactions between plants and putative pollinators in large natural reserves (area > 500 ha; n = 6) and small habitat fragments (area < 60 ha; n = 6) of coastal sage scrub habitat.
    • Date: 2015 to 2016
  42. Collection

    Scripps O2 Program Data

    • The Scripps O2 Program website at https://scrippso2.ucsd.edu provides access to openly available atmospheric O2/N2 ratio and CO2 concentration data from various sources along with graphics. Redundant copies of the atmospheric O2/N2 and CO2 data from 12 sampling stations are being deposited here, through the UC San Diego Library, to provide enhanced discovery, long-term accessibility, and preservation. The latest data archives from the 10 active stations are added to this collection as they become available.
    • Date: 1989 to present
  43. Collection

    History of the UC San Diego Visual Arts Department

    • Images documenting the history of Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego from 1969 to 1989.
    • Date: 1969-1993
  44. Collection

    Data from Scripps Research Expeditions 1953-2005

    • Data and documents from Scripps Institution of Oceanography research vessel expeditions from 1953-2005, including geophysical, water column, and sea surface measurements.
    • Date: 1953 to 2005
  45. Collection

    Stuart Collection Records: Selections

    • Video and audio recordings of the UC San Diego Stuart Collection site-specific public sculptures and interviews with the artists.
    • Date: 1982 - 2006
  46. Collection

    Hillary Eggers Photographs and Videos

    • Photographs and videos documenting the tools, processes and people from the February 2018 Winter CalCOFI cruise.
    • Date: 2018
  47. Collection

    California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI): Acoustic Fisheries Data (2017- )

    • Non-calibrated multi-frequency acoustic fisheries data (.raw files) collected aboard RV Sally Ride on the November 2017 CalCOFI (California Cooperative Fisheries Investigations) cruise
    • Date: 2017-11-09 to 2017-11-24
  48. Collection

    California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) Collection

    • Research data sets and photographs from CalCOFI (California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations) cruises.
    • Date: 2009-2018
  49. Collection

    Data from: Seasonal cycle and annual reversal of the Somali Current in an eddy-resolving global ocean model

    • The dataset includes a subset of model output from a global 0.1-deg CORE-II forced POP simulation near the region of the Arabian Sea, supporting the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans article with the same name.
    • Date: 2005 to 2009
  50. Collection

    Data from: Southern California Coastal Response to the 2015-16 El Niño

    • Airborne lidar datasets collected on 6-October-2015 and 22-March-2016, and processed into 1-m resolution digital elevation models.
    • Date: 2015 to 2016