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Offshore wind and wildlife data management updates

Today, RWSC is releasing a portfolio of materials supporting its mission of data sharing and transparency around offshore wind and wildlife. These include:

These materials are designed to help the RWSC community make data discoverable and reusable as well as to help support all researchers and data holders in contributing to the greater body of knowledge about offshore wind and wildlife.

Since the release of the RWSC Science Plan, the RWSC Data Governance Subcommittee (DGSC) has been working with other Subcommittees to identify and recommend long-term data storage options that could be indexed by the future Offshore Wind Data Catalog.  In August 2024, the DGSC made an initial announcement recommending a small number of repositories.  In the intervening months, the DGSC has been working to expand this list through ongoing engagement and conversations with data stewards and staff associated with the repositories and other data places identified by RWSC Subcommittees in the Science Plan. The latest list of recommended repositories for long-term data storage includes those from the August 2024 announcement, as well as additional recommendations covering most of the expected types of offshore wind and wildlife data.  RWSC will maintain the list of repositories, and make revisions and updates as new and improved data solutions come online.