Data, documents and images from 822 expeditions by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) since 1903 are becoming web-accessible under a usage policy through the new SIOExplorer project, and will become part of the overall NSF-funded National Science Digital Library (NSDL).  The effort is a collaboration among researchers at Scripps, computer scientists from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), and archivists and librarians from the UCSD Library.

An overview of the project is available from recent news releases or a more detailed recent presentation(.ppt).  Funding is provided by the NSF NSDL and ITR programs and by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.