Bradley Bishop

Over the past decade, teenage vaping has gone from a relatively unknown trend to a widespread public health issue. What began as a marketed alternative to smoking for adults has quickly found its way into high schools and even middle schools. Teenage vaping has rapidly evolved into one of the most pressing public health concerns of the modern era as it has become the most commonly used tobacco product among U.S. youth.

The volumes and varieties of data coming from all types of scientific instrumentation around the globe and beyond are rapidly growing. Appropriate curation and management of these data enable scientists to share and access them efficiently and to reuse and capitalize on them effectively. Many scientists intuit that research data management (RDM) done well does not mean using dusty USB drives or aging laptops for storage. Yet the path to strong data management is not always clear. How is RDM done?