IEA Data Guidance Doc

Use this repo to engage the broader IEA community to share recommended approaches/best practices. The scripts therein reproducibly produce our partner’s typical data products.

This code is always in development. Find code used for various reports in the code releases.

This code is primarally maintained by:

Emily Markowitz (Emily.Markowitz AT noaa.gov; @EmilyMarkowitz-NOAA); NMFS Alaska Fisheries Science Center Seann Regan (Seann.Regan AT noaa.gov) Lynn Dewitt (Lynn.Dewitt AT noaa.gov) Carissa Gervasi (Carissa.Gervasi AT noaa.gov) Chia-Wei Hsu (Chia-Wei.Hsu AT noaa.gov) Kimberly Hyde (Kimberly.Hyde AT noaa.gov) Scott Cross (Scott.Cross AT noaa.gov) Brittany Troast (Brittany.Troast AT noaa.gov) Brendan Turley (Brendan.Turley AT noaa.gov; @BrendanTurley-NOAA); NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science Center Affiliate; Courtney Bouchard (Courtney.Bouchard AT noaa.gov) Cathy Smith (Cathy.Smith AT noaa.gov) Corinne Burns (Corinne.Burns AT noaa.gov) Jennifer Webster (Jennifer.Webster AT noaa.gov) Willem Klajbor (Willem.Klajbor AT noaa.gov) Amy Freitag (Amy.Freitag AT noaa.gov)

The code in this repository is regularly being updated and improved. Please refer to releases for finalized products and project milestones.

Table of contents

• User Resources
• Access Constraints
• Relevant publications
• Suggestions and Comments
  • R Version Metadata
  • NOAA README
  • NOAA License

User Resources

• GitHub repository.

Access Constraints

There are no legal restrictions on access to the data. They reside in public domain and can be freely distributed.

User Constraints: Users must read and fully comprehend the metadata prior to use. Data should not be used beyond the limits of the source scale. Acknowledgement of the Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Program, as the source from which these data were obtained, in any publications and/or other representations of these data, is suggested.

General questions and more specific data requests can be sent to… [enter]

Relevant publications

Learn more about these surveys (IEAAlaska?; IEACaliforniaCurrent?; IEAGulfOfAmerica?; IEAHawaii?; EIANortheast?; IEASoutheast?).

Suggestions and Comments

If you see that the data, product, or metadata can be improved, you are invited to create a pull request, or submit an issue to the code’s repository.

R Version Metadata

FALSE R version 4.4.3 (2025-02-28 ucrt)
FALSE Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
FALSE Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19045)
FALSE 
FALSE Matrix products: default
FALSE 
FALSE 
FALSE locale:
FALSE [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8    LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C                           LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8    
FALSE 
FALSE time zone: America/Los_Angeles
FALSE tzcode source: internal
FALSE 
FALSE attached base packages:
FALSE [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
FALSE 
FALSE other attached packages:
FALSE [1] flextable_0.9.7   magrittr_2.0.3    googledrive_2.1.1
FALSE 
FALSE loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
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FALSE [37] vctrs_0.6.5             R6_2.6.1                lifecycle_1.0.4         stringr_1.5.1           fs_1.6.5                ragg_1.3.3              pkgconfig_2.0.3         gapindex_3.0.2          pillar_1.10.1           data.table_1.16.4       glue_1.8.0              Rcpp_1.0.14            
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NOAA README

This repository is a scientific product and is not official communication of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or the United States Department of Commerce. All NOAA GitHub project code is provided on an ‘as is’ basis and the user assumes responsibility for its use. Any claims against the Department of Commerce or Department of Commerce bureaus stemming from the use of this GitHub project will be governed by all applicable Federal law. Any reference to specific commercial products, processes, or services by service mark, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply their endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the Department of Commerce. The Department of Commerce seal and logo, or the seal and logo of a DOC bureau, shall not be used in any manner to imply endorsement of any commercial product or activity by DOC or the United States Government.

NOAA License

Software code created by U.S. Government employees is not subject to copyright in the United States (17 U.S.C. §105). The United States/Department of Commerce reserve all rights to seek and obtain copyright protection in countries other than the United States for Software authored in its entirety by the Department of Commerce. To this end, the Department of Commerce hereby grants to Recipient a royalty-free, nonexclusive license to use, copy, and create derivative works of the Software outside of the United States.

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