PANGAEA is a repository for georeferenced data from earth system research. It is an open access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing research data.

The World Data Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC-MARE) uses PANGAEA as its central archive, and it is a designated archive for the journal Earth System Science Data (ESSD).

The benefits of this repository include:

• Most of the data deposited in PANGAEA is freely available
• Data can be used under the terms of the creative commons license and mentioned in the data set description
• The description of each data set is always visible, and includes an abstract of the data and associated publications, details of the research project, citation information, as well as the datasets available for download.
• Each dataset can be identified, shared, published and cited using a Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
• Researchers can submit their own data

Some example datasets that can be found in PANGAEA include:

• Documentation of sediment cores at the POLARSTERN core repository
• Cruise reports and data
• Oceanographic observations
• Sea-bed photographs (benthos)
• Sea Ice Physics
• Hydrographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean

For further information search the PANGEA repository for datasets. You can search under the topic headings Water, Ice, Atmosphere, and Sediment, or search for UQ researchers who have taken advantage of using this repository.