Project Lead, MODIS
Manager, Data Stewardship
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, University of North Dakota, 1977
M.S., University of Arizona, 1980
Graduate Certificate in Science and Technology Policy, University of Colorado
at Boulder, 2007
Specialties [top]
Science data management, digital archives management, records
management, and digital library science; software and system engineering.
Recent Highlights top]
National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, 2002-present
Alaska Satellite Facility, University of Alaska, Fairbanks,
1992-2002
Current Roles [top]
Duerr currently is the manager of NSIDC’s data stewardship
program, and data scientist for the MODIS and PARCA programs.
Her research interests involve nearly
all aspects of data stewardship. Her recent activities include a NASA-sponsored
activity that demonstrated the feasibility of using the PREMIS metadata
standard with NSIDC data holdings at the data set level; testing mechanisms
for improving the long-term recoverability of data in NASA’s
archive that are in outdated data formats; and a NOAA-sponsored
project, working with the science community
to introduce production of detailed metadata into the product development
process.
Duerr is also working with NASA’s Technology Infusion
working group to identify data stewardship-related technology and standards
gaps, to assess the readiness levels of existing standards and technologies,
and to recommend data stewardship-related technologies for adoption.
Co-I, Creation And Preservation Of A Sea Ice Climate Data Record
This project, funded by the NOAA Scientific Data Stewardship
Program, will help NSIDC add higher-resolution AMSR data to the existing
SMMR and SSM/I passive microwave instrument-based sea ice concentration
record, and will improve the metadata attached to the record. NSIDC
bases most of our sea ice tracking on the passive microwave sea ice
concentration record.
Co-I, Investigation and Tool Development for Storing NASA ECS
Data Using HDF5 Archival Information Package (AIP)
This project, funded by the NOAA Scientific Data
Stewardship Program, will demonstrate one solution to the challenges
of both archiving and distributing remote sensing data, namely
migration of data to a single standards-based archive format. Data
from NASA’s Earth
Observing System (EOS) Data Centers formatted in Hierarchical Data
Format (HDF) will be used in the demonstration.
PI, Discovery and Access to Historic Literature from the IPYs
(DAHLI)
DAHLI, partly funded through NOAA's Climate Database Modernization
Program (CDMP) is developing an online bibliography of records and
publications from past International Polar Year (IPY) events: 1882-1883,
1932-1933, and 1957-1958. Materials may include scientific research,
scientific observations and data, sociological data, and historical
data. DAHLI will stimulate the discovery and preservation of these
rare and uncatalogued items, estimated to be several thousand documents,
in archives around the world. Current activities include digitization
of materials related to the first and second IPYs, held at the Carnegie
Institute.
Duerr, R., P. Cao, J.
Crider, M. Folk, C. Lynnes, and M. Yang. In press. Ensuring long
term access to remotely-sensed data with layout maps. IEEE
Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGARS), special
issue on Data Archiving and Distribution.
Duerr, R.,
M. Yang, and C. Lee. In press. Towards a standard archival format for
Earth science data: Storing NASA ECS data using HDF5 Archival Information
Packages (AIP). Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.
Weaver,
R.S., W. M. Meier, and R. M. Duerr. In press. Maintaining data
records: Practical decisions required For data set prioritization,
preservation, and access.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.
Duerr, R., R. Weaver,
and M. A. Parsons. 2006. A new approach to preservation
metadata for scientific data: A real world example. Proceedings
of the 2006 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
and 27th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing.
Duerr, R., M. Parsons,
M. Marquis, R. Dichtl, and T. Mullins. 2004. Challenges
in long-term data stewardship. Proc. 21st IEEE
Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies. NASA/CP-2004-212750:
47-67.
Parsons, M.A., R. L. Weaver,
R. Duerr, and R. G. Barry. 2004. Data management considerations for
the International Polar Year. EOA Trans. Supplement: Vol. 85(47) F442,
C23B-0.
Parsons, M.A. and R. Duerr.
2005. Designating user communities for scientific data: challenges
and solutions. Data
Science Journal 4:31-38.
Duerr, R. and E. Hansen.
1992. Shaping data systems through the EOS era: The UARS experience.
In Earth
and Space Science Information Systems. AIP Conference
Proceedings, Ed. Arthur Zygielbaum, 283: 80-88. New York: AIP.
Related Resources [top]
MODIS Data at NSIDC
NSIDC Publications: Presentations and Posters
Program for Arctic Regional
Climate Assessment (PARCA)
Cooperative Institute
for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
Contact NSIDC
User Services for more information.
