CCN is committed to treating data responsibly and providing credit to the authors who worked hard to collect, perform QAQC, etc.
Download the Coastal Carbon Network’s data responsibility agreement:
Data that is curated, but not created by the Network, is not attributed to the Network. Users who download data - from an data publication or from the Coastal Carbon Atlas - are strongly encouraged and responsible for citing all dataset DOIs to credit the datasets’ original authors. All synthesis products created by the Network and associated collaborators are listed under a Creative Commons With Attribution license. The Network should be acknowledged and cited appropriately if users utilize any of the data structures, tools, or scripts developed by Network and associated collaborators. We will develop additional tools to assist users in generating lists of citations, but users will be ultimately responsible for correctly citing all data used.
How do I cite data downloaded from the Atlas?
Data downloaded from the Atlas will include a bibliography tailored to the dataset you have downloaded. Please cite the original data publications as well as the Coastal Carbon Network (see the following suggested citation).
CCN Data Library Citation:
Holmquist, James, Klinges, Dave, Lonneman, Michael, Wolfe, Jaxine, and Megonigal, Patrick. (2023) Database: Coastal Carbon Network Data Library. Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. https://github.com/Smithsonian/CCRCN-Data-Library
Licensing is listed under the Creative Commons BY 4.0.