- 1.5 Data Sources for MDL Exercises (1-3-2014; updated)
- 1.6 Common Marine Data Formats (1-9-2014; RAR, BSB, KAP, S-57 added)
- 2.29 Adding Navigation Charts to Maps in Saga: KAP, BSB, S-57 (1-10-2014; new)
- 9.35 Obtaining Tide Forecasts for 7000 Global Locations: UKMO EasyTide (1-14-2013; new)
- 1.4 Managing Your Identity and Digital Communications in Marine Science (1-16-2013: 2nd draft)
- 3.5 Obtaining Secchi Disk Depths from the Worldwide Ocean Optics Database (WOOD) (1-21-2013; new)
- 2.30 Adding UCSD/Scripps/Argo Mixed Layer Depths Climatology to Maps in Saga (1-23-2014; new)
- 1.9 Sketch Maps (Java security problem solved; 1-27-2014)
- 1.7 Renamed HUMAN ENVIRONMENT section of layers list to TECHNOSPHERE (modification; 2-2-2014)
- 2.31 Importing Satellite SST and Sea Ice Climatologies into Marine GIS: NODC LAS (new; 2-3-2014)
- 8.11 Managing Time-Series Graphs from Long-Term or Classical Climatologies: NODC LAS (new; 2-13-2014)
- 3.6 Managing Global Biological Records for One Taxon in OBIS (new; 2-17-2014)
- 3.7 Managing/Repatriating Local Biological Records of Multiple Taxa in OBIS (new; 2-18-2014)
- 2.14 Image Georeferencing in Saga (Saga module updated; 2-24-2014)
- 2.32 Global Wave Grids from the EU Climatology (new; 2-24-2014)
- WOD/WOA exercise group renamed Principal Global Archives of in situ Ocean Data (scope change; 2-28-2014)
- 3.8 Visualizing the Global Transmissometer Database Collection in Ocean Data View (new; 3-2-2014)
- MDL Course 302: Managing Ocean Optics Datasets (new; 3-9-2014)
- 2.33 Managing Global Coastline, River and Lake Vectors: GSHHG (new: 3-27-2014)
- 1.12 Randomize and/or Subsample Table Data in Excel (new; 3-28-2014)
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3.9 Managing PANGAEA Research Data, with Visualization Methods for Ocean Data View; (new; 4-1-2014)
- Special List of Exercises Related to Flight 370 (ad hoc; 4-2-2014; see below))
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9.36 Visualization of Remotely Sensed Currents (from Winds and Sea Height) in IDV: OSCAR (new; 4-5-2014)
- XIDV file for SE Asia/Oceania forward-time currents from OSCAR for March 2014; (new; SAVE AS *.XIDV, use IDV > OPEN to visualize)
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9.37 Managing/Repackaging Recent Analyses from the Global Network of Fixed Stations: US NDBC (new; 4-17-2014)
- Who Uses MDL? (new; 201 countries where MDL has been used; 4-22-2014)
- Listing of Docents/Instructors (new; first entry; 4-24-2014)
- HELPnet page added for user questions to the MDL community (new; 4-28-2014; includes relevant article from TOS)
- 9.38 Visualizing "From" or "Toward" Current and Wind Particle Trajectories in IDV (new; 4-30-2014)
- 2.1 Saga Preliminary Setup (updated; 5-16-2014)
- 2.4 Creating Graticules and Frames in Saga (extended; 5-18-2014)
- 2.13 Creating a 0-360˚ Map System in Saga for Pacific-Centered Analyses & Products (updated; 5-19-2014)
- 2.3 Creating a Project Map in Saga (updated; 5-27-2014)
- 2.21 Importing HDF Satellite Chlorophyll Data (Operational or Climatological) into Marine GIS: Color Web (5-28-2014; revised - uses new Saga functions)
- MDL Course 302: Managing Ocean Optics Datasets (5-29-2014; revised/updated)
- 2.5 Creating Grid Templates in Saga (6-1-2014; updated)
- 2.6 Adding GEBCO Depth Contours to a Project Map in Saga (6-1-2014; cleaned up/updated)
- 2.8 Adding Administrative Boundaries and Coastline to a Project Map in Saga (6-2-2014; cleaned up/updated)
- 9.8 Visualizing Satellite-Measured Sea Surface Height & Geostrophic Current Estimates in IDV: AVISO (6-4-2014; revised)
- 9.16 Visualizing Satellite-Measured Wind Speed & Waves in IDV: AVISO (6-6-2014; simplified)
- 2.9 World Resource of Boundaries, Named Zones and Gazetteer Data for Marine GIS: VLIZ MarineRegions (6-10-2014; revised/extended)
- 2.10 Adding a Text-Dominated Spreadsheet to a Project Map in Saga (6-12-2014; 2nd revision)
- 4.8 Exporting Marine Data from ODV: Data Subsets (6-13-2014; updated)
- 2.11 Adding a Number-Dominated Spreadsheet to a Project Map in Saga (6-13-2014; revised)
- 1.6 Common Marine Data Formats (6-14-2014; GML added)
- 4.5 Creating Marine Data Surface Plots in ODV (6-16-2014; second revision)
- 4.8 Exporting Marine Data from ODV: Data Subsets (6-17-2014; revised/updated)
- 5.1 Converting a Data Table to a Point Shape in Saga (6-17-2014; revised/updated)
- 5.2 Gridding Point Shapes in Saga (6-20-2014; revised/updated)
- 5.4 Masking Methods for Depth- or Height-Limited Grids in Saga (6-22-2014; revised/updated)
- 5.5 Creating "Standard" Grid Products with Saga (6-24-2014; revised/updated)
- 2.18 Discontinued US Navy Marine Atlas: Global Wave Grids (7-3-2014; shortened)
- 1.4 Managing Your Identity and Digital Communications in Marine Science (7-6-2014; finalized)
- 2.34 Visualizing Altimeter & SAR Global Wave Data Grids (L4) in Saga: GlobWave (7-8-2014; new)
- 4.19 Editing Quality Flags for Sample, Station and Cruise Data in ODV (7-13-2014; new)
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4.5 Creating Marine Data Surface Plots in ODV (6-16-2014; revised)
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4.8 Exporting Marine Data from ODV: Data Subsets (6-17-2014; revised)
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5.1 Converting a Data Table to a Point Shape in Saga (6-17-2014; revised)
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5.2 Gridding Point Shape in Saga (6-20-2014; revised/updated)
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5.4 Masking Methods for Depth- or Height-Limited Grids in Saga (6-22-2014; revised)
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5.5 Creating "Standard" Grid Products with Saga (6-24-2014; revised)
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2.18 Discontinued US Navy Marine Atlas: Global Wave Grids (7-3-2014; revised)
- 1.4 Managing Your Identity and Digital Communications in Marine Science (7-6-2014; final)
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2.34 Visualizing Altimeter & SAR Global Wave Data Grids (L4) in Saga: GlobWave (7-8-2014; new)
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4.19 Editing Quality Flags for Sample, Station and Cruise Data in ODV (7-13-2014; new)
- 2.22 Importing "Scaled" HDF Satellite SST Climatologies into Marine GIS: Color Web (7-16-2014; revised)
- 2.16 Using Grid Statistics and Calculations for Ecological Assessments in Saga (7-17-2014; revised)
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Who Uses MDL (Visitor count added; 7-18-2014)
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2.20 Removing "Land Stations" from a Marine Data Collection (7-20-2014; illustrated)
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2.23 Managing NetCDF, HDF (4/5) and GRIB Rasters with Principal Software Display Programs (7-30-2014; revised/enlarged)
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2.12 Cutting a Shape to the Project Map Extent in Saga (8-3-2014; updated)
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2.15 Creating a New Shape in Saga from Published Coordinates (8-4-2014; updated)
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2.26 Digitizing High-Resolution Borders and Coastlines in Google Earth (8-4-2014; updated)
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7.5 Merging/ViewingTiled High-Resolution Relief Grids (2-D and 3-D): CGIAR 3-sec SRTM (8-4-2014; updated)
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2.27 Reprojecting Vector Data in Saga: UTM to WGS84 (8-5-2014; updated)
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2.33 Managing Global Coastline, River and Lake Vectors: GSHHG (8-5-2014; updated)
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MDL Courses and Training (8-7-2014; course footnotes moved to main text)
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6.5 Surface Current Vectors from the Global Drifter Program: ASCII Spreadsheets Option (8-12-2014; new)
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2.18 Discontinued US Navy Marine Atlas: Global Wave Grids (8-12-2014; updated)
- 2.35 Managing & Visualizing MGD77 & XYZ Geologic Survey Data in Saga: NGDC (8-18-2014; new)
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2.7 Adding a Sediment Thickness Grid to a Project Map in Saga (8-21-2014; updated)
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9.40 Extracting Time-Series Plots for Points in 3-D Grids with IDV: Models or Climatologies (8-24-2014; new)
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9.39 Visualizing Mercator/PISCES Ocean Biogeochemistry Model Products in IDV (8-28-2014; new)
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5.10 Basic Grid Operations, Calculations and Subsetting in IDV (9-4-2014; new)
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5.11 Converting Between 0-to-360º and -180-to-180º Grids in IDV (9-5-2014; new)
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9.25 Visualizing Satellite-Measured Primary Production in IDV: OceanWatch (9-5-2014; dropped/no data)
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9.26 Visualizing Satellite-Measured Sea Surface Salinity in IDV: MIRAS via CoastWatch (9-6-2014; new/replacement)
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5.17 Creating a Histogram in Excel for IDV Grids (9-9-2014; new)
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2.19 Visualizing Climatological Grid Analyses in IDV: THREDDS (9-11-2014; updated)
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5.12 Georeferencing in Saga (9-12-2014; dropped/too many chances for misinterpretation)
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New MDL Docents: João Bosco and Mihael de Souza (9-22-2014)
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5 MDL Docents, speaking English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. Contact them directly for exercise questions or training.
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7.6 Displaying 3-D Relief Data ("Topography") and Vector Overlays ("Maps") in IDV (10-9-2014; new)
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Funding provided for this author's travel to MDL Courses at your location (10-13-2014; new)
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9.8 Visualizing Satellite-Measured Sea Surface Height & Geostrophic Current Estimates in IDV: AVISO GDET (11-9-2014; new web server/much easier)
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9.3 Visualizing Modeled Wave Analysis Grids in IDV: Wave Watch III (11-11-2014; now THREDDS access only; adds histograms, probe time-series, animations)
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9.16 Visualizing Satellite-Measured Wind Speed & Waves in IDV: AVISO GDET (11-12-2014; new web server/much easier)
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3.6 Managing Global Biological Records for One Taxon in OBIS (11-19-2014; updated with latest data)
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9.9 Visualizing Ocean Model Scalars & Vectors in IDV: HYCOM Download (11-26-2014; completely updated/revised)
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New Operational groups: Models/Forecasts, In Situ/At Sea (additional indexing for existing links; 11-27-2014)
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Email address at MARINEDATALITERACY.ORG discontinued; please use only the GMAIL.COM address to reach the editor
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Google Search function has returned to the main page (11-28-2014)
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Sketch maps bit the dust; no longer compatible with latest Java (11-30-2014
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1.11 Raster Scales and Vector Resolution (simplified - no Excel calculation required; 12-3-2014)
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9.41 Visualizing Satellite-Measured Winds in IDV: RapidScat (new; uses 3-D globe; 12-16-2014)
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FugroViewer added to Software for use with LAS data (12-24-2014)
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7.7 Displaying Point Cloud, LAS-Format LIDAR Data: Various Platforms (new; 12-28-2014; ho ho ho!)
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MDL COURSE 202: How to Make a Local Marine and Coastal Atlas (updated/revised; static HTML only; not WMS; 12-31-2014)
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9.22 Visualizing Satellite-Measured Sea Surface Salinity in IDV: AQUARIUS/THREDDS (revised; 1-8-2015)
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2.21 Importing HDF Satellite Surface Chlorophyll and Salinity Climatologies into Marine GIS: OceanColor Web (revised; 1-13-2015)
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2.22 Importing "Scaled" HDF Satellite Surface Temperature Climatologies into Marine GIS: OceanColor Web (revised; 1-14-2015)
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2.36 Obtaining Long-Term, Satellite HDF Climatologies at OceanColor Web: Temperature, Chlorophyll, Salinity (updated; 1-14-2015)
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9.36 Visualization of Remotely Sensed Currents (from Winds and Sea Height) in IDV: OSCAR (updated1-18-2015)
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1.13 Revised/Updated File-Naming Convention for Earth Science Datasets (1-19-2015; revised)
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9.13 Visualizing Modeled Meteorological Products in IDV: GFS (1-22-2015; revised)
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9.31 Visualizing Modeled Ocean Scalars & Vectors in IDV: RTOFS (1-24-2015; revised)
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5.14 Managing NetCDF, HDF4/5 and GRIB Rasters with Principal Display Programs (1-24-2015; thinned down)
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2.3 Creating a Project Map in Saga (1-26-2015; KML added)
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8.12 Accessing Data Products from NOAA's GEO-IDE Framework (2-2-2015; new)
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9.12 Converting Rasters and Vectors to Google Earth Images, using IDV (revised & simplified; 2-9-2014)
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9.12 Converting Rasters and Vectors to Google Earth Images, using IDV - Revised; better, easier, faster (2-9-2014)
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9.10 Visualizing Ocean Model Simulations (Rasters or Vectors) in IDV: HYCOM - Revised; better, easier, faster (2-15-2015)
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9.9 Visualizing Ocean Model Scalars & Vectors in IDV: HYCOM Download - Deprecated; use only 9.10
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3.1 Managing/Repatriating Area-Specific Marine Data from the World Ocean Database - Revised (2-20-2015)
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1.11 Raster Scales and Vector Resolution - Small error corrected (3-10-2015)
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1.8 Selected Marine Data Software - Added Webstart version of Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) to avoid local installation difficulties (3-15-2015).
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5.18 Converting GRIB to NetCDF with ToolsUI from UNIDATA (new; 4-14-2015)
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2.31 Importing Satellite SST and Sea Ice Climatologies into Marine GIS: NCEI LAS (revised/updated; 5-13-2015)
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1.4 Managing Your Identity and Digital Communications in Marine Science (5-27-2015; updated)
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MDL office relocated to Edgewater, Florida, USA (6-1-2015)
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2.13 Creating a 0-360˚ Map System in Saga for Pacific- and Indian-Centered Analyses & Products (Revised and extended; 8-7-2015)
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2.38 Obtaining Satellite Chlorophyll-a Imagery from Giovanni (New; 8-3-2015)
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2.37 Global Gazetteer of Named Marine Places and Features for Marine GIS: GeoNET Names Server (New; 8-3-2015)
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2.9 Global Collection of Boundaries and Named Zones Data for Marine GIS: VLIZ MarineRegions (Revised; 8-2-2015)
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All mentions of "points shapes" in the text changed to "point shapes" for full compliance with OGC specifications (8-8-2015; see 2.37)
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2.20 Removing "Land Stations" from a Marine Data Collection (Cleaned up; 8-19-2015)
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7.1 GEBCO 08 Global Relief Grid: Local Processing of Products (Deprecated, in favor of 7.4 GEBCO 08 Global Relief Grid: Online Processing of Products; 8-26-2015)
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9.36 Visualization of Remotely Sensed Currents (from Winds and Sea Height) in IDV: OSCAR (Completely revised; covers FTP method briefly, but focuses on OPENDAP access via a hidden URL; 10-9-2015)
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9.42 Visualizing Operational Surface Temperatures "Blended" from Multiple Sources in IDV: JPL/G1SST (New, direct OPENDAP connection, easy subsetting; 9-30-2015)
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9.2 Visualizing Historical and NRT Satellite-Measured Surface Temperatures in IDV: GHRSST FTP (Major global sources except G1SST & MUR; 9-28-2015)
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9.34 Visualizing Satellite-Measured Surface Temperature Fields in IDV: JPL/MUR (Revised, direct OPENDAP connection, easy subsetting; 9-25-2015)
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2.36 Obtaining Operational & Climatological Satellite Temperature, Chlorophyll and Salinity Ocean Data: OceanColor Web (12-1-2015