Repository of the Future

The Challenge: Environmental data are essential to understanding and managing our rapidly changing world, but traditional repositories struggle with growing data volumes, diverse formats, and demands for interoperability. Researchers, policymakers, and practitioners need fast, reliable access to well-documented data, yet existing systems often limit discoverability and reuse.

The Solution: The Environmental Data Institute (EDI) is developing Phoenix, the next generation of cloud-optimized data repository designed to meet these challenges. Built on more scalable, flexible, and sustainable infrastructure, Phoenix will improve data ingestion, curation, access, and long-term preservation. It will support modern, standards-based APIs and richer metadata, making environmental data easier to find, integrate, and analyze. By investing in automation and user-friendly tools, EDI ensures that researchers can share and discover data with minimal barriers.

The Impact & Outcomes: Phoenix will transform environmental data stewardship, enabling FAIR-aligned, open science at scale. Researchers will benefit from seamless data publication and access, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and accelerating discovery. Policymakers and resource managers will have better evidence to guide decisions, while EDI’s partners will gain a sustainable, robust platform to support environmental science well into the future.