Station lists

= Station lists in PANGAEA = Station lists (or Event lists) show all the sampling events per cruise of a research vessel. PANGAEA archives the station lists of the large German research vessels and links research data to these sampling events in a common format, standardized and in one place (Figure 1). In the framework of the pilot-phase of the DAM data management project, the workflows for the creation of stations lists for PANGAEA have been revised, optimized and documented.

= DShip Action Log = The DShip system is used on the German Research vessels to document stations and device usage. Sampling actions are being logged manually, including date/time, lat/long and information about the device. The resulting log file is an “Action Log”. Currently, Action Logs vary at times among the different ships they come from, regarding column names, comments, best practices, etc. We use these Action Logs to create the station lists for PANGAEA. Within DShip logs are recorded for every action performed with a certain device, while in PANGAEA we want to condense this information to an Event. The event covers the start and possibly end information of a device usage.

= Station lists online = Station list archiving is part of PANGAEA's expedition archiving. Cruise lists and related information can be accessed via https://www.pangaea.de/expeditions/ or, for each of the research vessels, via the following links:
 * Cruise list of the research vessel POLARSTERN


 * Cruise list of the research vessel SONNE
 * Cruise list of the research vessel MERIAN
 * Cruise list of the research vessel METEOR
 * Cruise list of the research vessel POSEIDON

There are several options to access and filter campaing lists directly
 * For a ship/basis: https://www.pangaea.de/expeditions/bybasis/Polarstern
 * The name of the ship has to be UTF-8-URL-encoded
 * If the ship’s name includes special characters, they need to be encoded accordingly: https://www.pangaea.de/expeditions/bybasis/Meteor%20(1964)
 * You can also access all campaigns per project acronym (shows all campaigns connected to the project and all campaigns that are linked to a.dataset with that project): https://www.pangaea.de/expeditions/byproject/IODP
 * You can also access the station list for a cruise/campaign: https://www.pangaea.de/expeditions/events/PS114
 * Default is HTML, you can download a tab file of your list if you include “?format=textfile” in the URL