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Welcome to the PSInetRCN Project Wiki!
Here you can find basic information about (1) our mission, (2) submission resources, (3) user resources, and (4) updates and opportunities.
Established in 2023, PSInet is a NSF funded research coordinated network aimed at compiling a global database of time series water potential measurements in plants.
Led by an international team of researchers, the main goal of PSInet is to enable the pursuit of previously intractable questions about plant responses to drought and heat stress by:
- Promoting consistent collection and interpretation of water potential measurements through shared protocols and best practices.
- Creating an open, global database for plant water potential time series that harmonize site-level meteorological data and information available from other environmental observation networks.
- Supporting synthetic end-use of the PSInet database to address pressing knowledge gaps.
- Fostering a diverse and inclusive network to advance the careers of demographically and geographically diverse cohorts.
- Broadening the impact of plant drought research through public outreach and early career training.
Click here to learn more about the PSInet team, the goals, and origins of this research initiative.
We are soliciting time series plant water potential measurements with paired site-level meteorological data to build an open-access database (e.g. CC-By-4.0 license).
We encourage plant water potential data from both discrete measurements made with pressure chambers and continuous measurements enabled by psychrometers, tensiometers, and other emerging technologies.
Our cyber infrastructure can house measurements of diverse plant species collected in (1) ambient environments, (2) experimentally manipulated/managed landscapes (e.g. through-fall displacement, irrigation, fertilization, etc.), and (3) greenhouse/growth chamber studies. Note: measurements collected under non-ambient conditions (e.g., greenhouse/growth chamber studies) may require more ancillary meteorological data to fulfill the Basic Data Requirements.
Submitting data to PSInet is a two part process:
- Data providers will first submit a short (~15min) Pre-Submission Survey, designed to collect contact information, basic site-level information, and ancillary ecohydrologic data that may be available (noting that PSInet is not actively collecting ancillary ecohydrologic data, but we are interested in knowing whether other data are available to support future synthesis projects).
- After the Pre-Submission Survey has been received, data providers will be contacted via email with detailed instructions about how to prepare Raw Data Submission using an Excel template.
- We invite submissions from the ecohydrology community world-wide. However, we recommend checking the Basic Data Requirements.
- To clarify terms on submission format guidelines, provided here is a Data Dictionary for the Raw Data Submission Template.
- PSInet will also be holding online help sessions ('datathons') to provide additional instructions and answer contributor questions; check the datathons schedule [here].
To be updated at a later date
PSInet is in its alpha stage; Data collection will launch on XX-XX-XXXX.
Sharing data by XX-XX-XXXX will make data providers eligible to co-author a network-level data publication (up to two personnel per site) and will give you and your team members priority access to the entire database during a one-year embargo period prior to publication of the data paper. Data providers will additionally be given priority access to other network activities, including workshops, conference meet-ups, and some sites may find that sharing data opens the door to future synthesis projects.
PSInet hosts/sponsors a variety of events aimed to foster discussion, collaboration, and training.
See upcoming PSInet events (in-person and/or virtual) on our event announcement page.