9. Case Study 2

Today we’ll go through the ideas of Seagoing Oceanography with a 2nd case study (MerMEED - Mechanisms Responsible for Mesoscale Eddy Dissipation).

For next week

We will talk about “good scientific practice”, sometimes also called “scientific integrity” or “research ethics”.

Recommended: Read snippets of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [2022], especially guidelines 12-14. The whole thing is only 28 pages long. Ideally this will be a discussion.

Additionally or alternatively, find a statement on good scientific practice from a funding agency in another country or at UHH, or see the resources below:

• Browse the DFG Research Integrity website here.

• US NSF: Scientific integrity in “Post Award Requirements” and Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research.

• UHH’s Research Integrity office here and bylaws (German only); also training offers.

• Helmholtz Dealing with research software: Recommendations for best practices

We will specifically discuss authorship, documentation, FAIR data, Ocean Best Practices, and the role of research software in reproducible science. Some of these are generic topics for science; others we’ll look at the specific application for seagoing/observational science.