Parameter: author

Dataset: 
Parameter: 
Master parameters information
Short Name:
 investigator
Short Description:
 investigator
Official Name:
 investigator
No Data Value:
 nd
Description:
 

This is the person who has some responsibility for the data.  Can be the ultimate responsibility, i.e. Principle Investigator or Chief Scientist, or can be a scientist who is responsible for one kind of data, or data collection or analysis or identification.  This is not  the person who wrote the numbers or observations in the log. That is 'recorder'. Some of the previously labelled 'person' designations are now 'investigators'.

Dataset-parameters information
Supplied Name: 
author
Supplied Units: 
dimensionless
Conversion Necessary: 
no
No Data Value: 
NaN
Description: 

name of person entering the event