Blog on FAIR Station

Introducing FAIR Station’s Product Manager

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hello everyone! My name is Danny Brooke, and I’m excited to join UC3 as Product Manager for FAIR Station, a role hosted through Code for Science & Society. FAIR Station is a Moore Foundation-funded initiative that’s building open-source, interoperable infrastructure for field stations and marine laboratories. The project reimagines RAMS (a field station reservation platform) as a strategic entry point into the research lifecycle, connecting fieldwork to the samples, datasets, and publications that result from it.

Our Path to FAIR Station

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

At UC3, our work focuses on how research activities, outputs, and systems connect across the lifecycle, from planning and data collection through to publication and reuse. We approach these challenges from a research infrastructure and information management perspective, which naturally extends upstream to where research begins, including field stations and other place-based environments. As we embark on the FAIR Station project, we wanted to reflect on some of the many projects and work that got us to this point.

Introducing FAIR Station

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Across many areas of research, field stations and marine laboratories (FSMLs) are where science begins. This is where observations are made, samples are collected, and long-term studies take shape. Yet the systems that support this work are often focused on logistics alone: reserving space, coordinating access, and managing operations.

What happens next, how data are described, connected, and ultimately shared, is typically handled elsewhere, and often inconsistently. At UC3, we see this as a missed opportunity. Over the past decade, we have worked on different parts of this challenge. With the FAIR Station project, we are turning our attention upstream to the platform researchers already use to engage with field stations.