Teaching with IEDA2: The Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance Re-invented
Educational materials and events to support use of the IEDA data infrastructure

Working with authentic data and with online data systems are important skills for undergraduate students to develop. Students gain data analysis skills and better retention, fostering a deeper understanding of the subject matter. IEDA2 is a collaborative data infrastructure of three complementary data systems – EarthChem, LEPR/traceDs, SESAR. The data systems jointly support researchers in the Geosciences to share and access sample data following the FAIR data principles (Wilkinson et al. 2016), and to ensure open, reproducible, and transparent science practices. Geochemical data are essential to numerous geoscience disciplines and the teaching resources, tutorials, and events in this project will help faculty provide opportunities for their students engage with data and data systems.

Teaching Resources
Explore teaching resources that use geochemical data systemsEvents
Workshops and webinars that support teaching with the IEDA2 data infrastructure

Data Systems

EarthChem

EarthChem enables innovation and advances in the Earth, Ocean, and Environmental Sciences through our data services. They promote community-driven discovery, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of geochemical, petrological, and related data. EarthChem includes PetDB, the searchable database of geochemical data from igneous and metamorphic rocks and the EarthChem Portal, the one-stop shop for geochemical data through simultaneous search of federated databases including PetDB, SedDB, NAVDAT, MetPetDB, the USGS National Geochemical Database, GEOROC, and GANSEKI. The EarthChem library is an open-access repository for geochemical datasets.

SESAR

System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR). The System for Earth Sample Registration advances Open and FAIR Samples in the Earth, Environmental, and Space Sciences. SESAR helps make samples more discoverable, accessible, and reusable.

LEPR

The Library of Experimental Phase Petrology (LEPR) provides access to data from experimental liquid-solid phase equilibrium studies. The database includes studies of experiments documenting major elemental partitioning in magmatic systems and trace element partitioning between silicate liquids, mineral phases and aqueous asolutions.