John W. Williams, Author at Eos

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The Valuable, Vulnerable, Long Tail of Earth Science Databases

by Andrea K. Thomer, John W. Williams, Simon Goring and Jessica L. Blois 20 March 202523 June 2025

Community-curated data resources in the Earth sciences, highly valuable but systematically underfunded, are vital to research on a changing planet.