• 'Online shopping' for data

  In line with our goal to provide direct access and online delivery to all data holdings, BODC announces a major enhancement to our data request service.
  
  The new release of the 'All data series' facility now provides online delivery for data (~ 60,000 series) held in the National Oceanographic Database (NODB). This encompasses physical, geophysical, chemical and biological measurements.
  
  The enhancements enable
  
  * 'anonymous' searching — search prior to registration or log in.
  * 'online shopping' — add data to a basket and check out your request.
  * extra choice in data file formats.
  * secure access control — authentication and authorisation.
  * auto-delivery of approximately 40,000 data series to academic users, with around 12,500 accessible to everyone.
  * auto-delivery of restricted data series to users with the correct credentials.
  * user request tracking and an auto-download facility.
  
  This opens the way to the secure delivery of BODC's data holdings via various external data portals. A demonstration of the new functionality is available for you to view.
  
  We are committed to improving our data services and your experience of our web site. Work is continuing to bring this functionality to our other data facilities and to enable online access to additional data.
  
  'All data series' facility - https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/online_d...
  Demonstration - https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/online_d...

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• Introducing single log in

  As part of our continuing commitment to improve our data services and your experience on our web site, we have upgraded our data applications to introduce a single log in.
  
  How does this work?
  
  Once you have logged in you will be free to navigate around the BODC web site, entering all data delivery areas without the need to log in again. This can be achieved by either
  
  1. Using the link provided on the top right-hand side of our web pages
  2. Using the link presented at each of the data delivery applications
  
  Some restricted areas require that you have additional permissions; should you encounter one of these you will be informed whether your account satisfies the entrance requirements.
  
  After a period of inactivity, to keep your account secure, your session will time out and access will be closed. You can also opt to close your session at any time, using the log out link presented at the top right-hand side of our web pages.
  
  This completes a major step towards our aim of making all of our data holdings accessible online.

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• Iceland to Scotland: crossing the Nordic Seas gateway

  Two BODC data scientists (Mark Hebden and Julia Calderwood) participated on both legs of the RRS Discovery 340 cruise in the North East Atlantic Ocean.
  
  On the first leg, between Iceland and Scotland, they joined colleagues from the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) and the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) to monitor the Atlantic waters flowing north towards the Arctic Ocean. This work is performed annually under the Extended Ellett Line project; an ocean monitoring initiative that dates back to 1975.
  
  The second leg of the cruise, around Western Scotland, examined how stratification and turbulent mixing are influenced by shelf topography, and the consequences for pelagic and benthic biogeochemical processes. This study was performed by scientists at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, with Oceans 2025 funding.
  
  Mark and Julia were onboard RRS Discovery to assist with the sampling programmes, and to compile quality metadata records.
  
  For more information about life onboard this research cruise, see the RRS Discovery 340 cruise blog at http://www.sams.ac.uk/sams-news/expe...

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