Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science

Abstract

This article is composed of three independent commentaries about the state of Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) principles (Goldman et al., 2021, https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10508554.1) in the AGU section paleoclimatology and paleoceanography (P&P), and a discussion on the opportunities and challenges of adopting them. Each commentary focuses on a different topic: (Section 2) Global collaboration, technology transfer and application, reproducibility, and data sharing and infrastructure; (Section 3) Local knowledge, global gain: improving interactions within the scientific community and with locals, indigenous communities, stakeholders, and the public; (Section 4) Field, experimental, remote sensing, and real‐time data research and application. P&P projects can better include ICON principles by directly incorporating them into research proposals. A promising way to overcome the challenges of interdisciplinarity and integration is to foster networking, which will advance our research discipline through the application of ICON.

Integrated, Coordinated, Open, and Networked (ICON) Science to Advance the Geosciences: Introduction and Synthesis of a Special Collection of Commentary Articles

“…These ideas tie in again to the CARE principles described in Section 1.2. The Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography article describes “true collaboration,” as “co‐develop[ing] mutually beneficial projects with the local community, aligning outcomes with both of their goals” (Belem et al., 2022).…”

“…Some barriers to achieving the “Open” principle are consistent across fields and some are discipline‐specific. In the Collection's Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography article (Belem et al., 2022), describe one of the open science challenges as accessing “dark data,” data collected before online and digitized data collection tools. Another challenge described by Belem and colleagues is in knowing where to look for data that a researcher needs because of the lack of a centralized and organized catalog of the databases and their contents.…”

Integrated, Coordinated, Open, and Networked (ICON) Science to Advance the Geosciences: Introduction and Synthesis of a Special Collection of Commentary Articles

“…Some barriers to achieving the "Open" principle are consistent across fields and some are discipline-specific. In the Collection's Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography article (Belem et al, 2022), describe one of the open science challenges as accessing "dark data," data collected before online and digitized data collection tools. Another challenge described by Belem and colleagues is in knowing where to look for data that a researcher needs because of the lack of a centralized and organized catalog of the databases and their contents.…”

“…These ideas tie in again to the CARE principles described in Section 1.2. The Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography article describes "true collaboration," as "co-develop[ing] mutually beneficial projects with the local community, aligning outcomes with both of their goals" (Belem et al, 2022).…”

Global Environmental Change Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, and Networked (ICON) Science

“…In this commentary, we look at the current status, challenges, and opportunities related to ICON science in field, experimental, remote sensing, and real-time data research and application, and multiscale modeling (Earth system modeling) in Global Environmental Change sciences. As in the other commentaries of the collection of ICON articles (e.g., Belem et al, 2022;Dwivedi et al, 2022), we have kept these sections largely independent, but we end the commentary with a brief overall concluding section.…”