Data Explorer Receives Environmental Business Journal Award

The Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) recognized the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s (OOI) Data Explorer’s ability to manage and visualize data with one of its annual awards for Information Technology.  

Tetra Tech will accept the award at the EBJ awards ceremony in March 2023 for its role in designing open-source software to support the management, accessibility, and visualization of ocean data. Axiom Data Science, a Tetra Tech company, worked with the OOI Cyberinfrastructure team to develop both front-end and back-end systems for data management and visualization of OOI data feeds.

The OOI, funded by the National Science Foundation, delivers real-time data from sensors in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to address critical questions regarding the world’s oceans. Axiom Data Science played a foundational role in designing and operationalizing the Data Explorer, the primary gateway for discovering, visualizing, and accessing OOI data. The Data Explorer makes it possible to search across data points, download full datasets, and compare datasets across regions and disciplines for more than 900 instruments in near real-time. In 2022, Axiom Data Science upgraded the OOI cyberinfrastructure to improve the OOI’s ability to serve ultra-high resolution data streams from next generation ocean instrumentation that span the ocean floor to the sea surface.

“We are honored to have worked with Axiom Data Science to make OOI’s vast amount of data accessible and useable and congratulate them on this recognition of their exceptional work,” said Jeffrey Glatstein, OOI’s Data Delivery Lead and Senior Manager of Cyberinfrastructure.  “The capabilities of Data Explorer are only beginning to be realized and will serve the ocean community for years to come.”