Forms and templates

Below are some forms and templates you will probably need at some point during your Jornada research.

Research approval

To request approval to conduct research at the Jornada, fill out the ResNotif form and send to the Jornada Research Site Manager (Conrad Nelson, cwnelson@nmsu.edu).

Project management information

To update the Jornada team about changes to your project use the ProjectInfo form. You can send this to the Jornada IM team (jornada.data@nmsu.edu)

Metadata templates and dataset preparation

If you are collecting metadata for your research, you are welcome to use one of these handy Jornada metadata templates to help you collect, organize and store complete metadata:

• MS Word format for relatively simple datasets with few tables.
• MS Excel format for more complex datasets with multiple tables.

When you are ready to prepare a Jornada dataset for publication, we strongly recommend using the Environmental Data Initiative’s ezEML application. You can follow our instructions here, and it should be easy to transfer information from the templates above. When you are ready to publish you will need to send your metadata and data to the Jornada IM team (jornada.data@nmsu.edu). You can do this easily through ezEML, or send the templates and data files via email.

Data requests

Most data are openly available at the Jornada LTER website data catalog, but some spatial data are restricted access only. To request spatial data, fill out the Jornada Spatial Data Policy Agreement. You can also request to join the Jornada GeoPortal with this form.