Multitenant Web Applications for Managing Data Across Multiple Projects at ORNL, Example: NGEE-Arctic, ARM, and Mercury Critical Interfaces Science Focus Area

A Multitenant Application is a shared software resource that provides services and infrastructure to separate users, i.e. tenants, and allows users to view it as their own unique application. These types of applications are being used at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to support many disparate projects of varying sciences, from arctic vegetation to atmospheric radiation, including NGEE-Arctic (https://ngee-arctic.ornl.gov), ARM (Atmospheric Radiation Measurements) (https://adc.arm.gov/), and the Biogeochemical Transformations at Critical Interfaces Scientific Focus Area led by ORNL (Mercury SFA). (https://www.esd.ornl.gov/programs/rsfa/).

The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE Arctic) is a 10-year project (2012 to 2022) to improve our predictive understanding of carbon (C)-rich Arctic system processes and feedbacks to climate. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility is a multi-laboratory, U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) scientific user facility, and a key contributor to national and international climate research efforts. The Mercury SFA project's goal is to enable a predictive understanding of mercury cycling in stream systems, both locally and globally, by providing foundational insight on exchange and feedback processes occurring at critical interfaces that control mercury fate and transformation.