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For more information about the Submarine Operational And Research
Environmental Database (SOARED) or the SCICEX Database Project, please
contact Paul Bienhoff Paul.Bienhoff [at] jhuapl.edu or check out the web
site at http://wood.jhuapl.edu/soared/.


The Submarine Operational And Research Environmental Database (SOARED)
web site http://wood.jhuapl.edu/soared/ is back online on its new
server. The SOARED web site is intended to show how a simple geographic
information system (GIS) can be used to retrieve scientific data from a
relational database and display the data both on geographic and
analytical displays. The web site contains some of the data collected
from submarines during the Science Ice Exercise (SCICEX) cruises, along
with selected historical and modeled datasets that can be used to
compare and evaluate the SCICEX data.

Paul Bienhoff of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
demonstrated some of the features of this system for a new data and
display GIS called the SCICEX Database Project at the Arctic Forum 2001
held in Washington D.C. May 24-25, 2001.

The SCICEX Database Project is planned to include the rest of the SCICEX
data, as well as other historical datasets and added software analysis
tools and data import/export features that will add value to the
extensive data collected during the six SCICEX cruises (in 1993 and
1995-1999). Paul is interested in getting feedback about the site's
usefulness and other features that will make it useful for other
analyses. You can send comments or questions to him at Paul Bienhoff
Paul.Bienhoff [at] jhuapl.edu or via the SOARED web site at
http://wood.jhuapl.edu/soared/.