Data usage policy

Data Usage Policy

The data in the WALDO database have been collected by Stanford University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Colorado Denver. Funding has been provided by the United States government under various basic science research grants over many years.

To maximize the benefit of those investments, WALDO data are released without restriction, and can be freely analyzed or published.

The curators of WALDO are Morris Cohen (Georgia Tech) and Mark Golkowski (CU-Denver). We request that the following acknowledgement be added in any publication using data from WALDO

VLF data are provided by the WALDO database (https://waldo.world), operated jointly by the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Colorado Denver, using data collected from those institutions as well as Stanford University, and has been supported by various US government grants from the NSF, NASA, and the Department of Defense.

If extensive amounts of WALDO data are used in a publication, the curators request, but do not require, to be contacted to discuss the possibility of joint authorship, with the WALDO curators providing help analyzing and interpreting the large dataset.