The Laboratory of Geophysical Data implements functions of World Data Center for Solar-Terrestrial Physics (WDC for STP) and World Data Center for Solid Earth Physics (WDC for SEP) which are a part of the global WDC System of International Council for Science (ICSU). The main directions of Laboratory activity are accumulation and preservation of geophysical data necessary for scientific research and providing of free access to this data. WDCs activity is realized in accordance with the WDC System Guide of ICSU. In this document basic WDC functions are defined:
• Collection and archiving of results of observations on global networks of observatories, land and sea expeditions, launches of satellites, special experiments etc. Data analysis, quality control, processing and long-term data storage.
• Data maintenance, preparation of data inventory, metadata, covering documents etc.
• Data dissemination, data provision according to users’ requests and through the Internet web-site.
• Assistance to educational programs, participation in scientific research.

The WDCs for STP and for SEP have website and support two identical versions in English and Russian languages. Data, metadata, thematic databases, data inventories are available on line on the website. A user interface is under development for convenient search, browsing, visualization and retrieval of data on the web.

In 2010 WDCs for STP and for SEP have declared the readiness to enter to the new ICSU World Data System (WDS) created through a decision of the 29th General Assembly of the International Council for Science. In 2011 process of certification of the candidates for membership into the WDS system which carries out WDS Scientific Committee has begun. The regional Russian-Ukrainian the Segment of World Data Centers which is including five Russian WCDs and Ukrainian WDC is created for realization of the joint activity directed to integration of all six Centers in the World Data System.

WDCs of Russia and Ukraine fulfill two joint projects, directed on development and solidifying of the Segment. These projects are supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Fundamental Researches State Fund of Ukraine. There is a system of the integrated access to the general information resources of a segment. The system will include a complete distributed multidisciplinary base of metadata, a union catalog of information resources, access services – a system of analytical modules, based on different methods of interactive data processing, providing free remote access to data.

After the completion of the “International Polar Year 2007-2008” program laboratory continue to accumulate new results of investigations in polar regions of the Earth. These new data are accessible to users through the Russian national Portal IPY-Info of Uniform state system of the information on conditions at the World ocean, created on the basis of RIHMI-WDC, and the international Portal IPYDIS. WDCs for STP and for SEP support the specialized web site, providing free access to results of geophysical observations in Arctic and Antarctic regions which are available at Centers.

In Laboratory the information interdisciplinary database of geological-geophysical parameters of the crust and the upper mantle of active continental margins of a transition zone from the Eurasian Continent to Pacific Ocean is created. The database includes the extensive information on regions of the Sea of Okhotsk, Sea of Japan, Philippine Sea, South China Sea, Primorsky Region, Far East of the Russia and Caspian Sea. The database is used for learning of a deep structure of continental margins, research of a role of the deep processes in the upper mantle, in particular in an asthenosphere, riftogenesis, the sedimentary processes flowing on continental slopes, research of seismogenic and subduction phenomena leading to earthquakes and eruptions of volcanoes, geochemistry of the rocks composing earth crust, learning of a role of fluids in formation of minerals and many other questions. This direction of investigation is coordinated with a research program of the international project «InterMargins Project». The geodynamic models of all researched regions are constructed. Part of them is presented on web site of WDC for SEP.

In Laboratory the bases of digital images of analog and tabular data from geomagnetic observatories of the CIS and ionospheric station Magadan are created. Works related to the international projects are performed: 1. “The Rescue of the magnetograms of the observatories of the former Soviet Union” supported by ICSU Pannel on World Data Centers; 2. “Rescue of old analog magnetograms by converting to digital Images”, the ICSU Grant. The primary goal of projects – the rescue of data of observatories by their photographing by digital camera directly on observatories and in archives of institutes and the subsequent formation of base of digital images of analog magnetograms in WDC for STP with possibility of remote access and data retrieval on a network the Internet.

The World Data Center for Solar-Terrestrial Physics together with Laboratory of Network Information Technologies of GC RAS and National Geophysical Data Center of USA supports databases “Space Physics Interactive Data Resource” (SPIDR). SPIDR is a distributed network of databases and service programs that are synchronized in real time and allow the user:
• concurrent access to a network of thematic databases;
• interactive visualization of time series, maps and images and sampling of the multidisciplinary data;
• search for specific events in "space weather" in terms of a natural language with fuzzy logic application.

In collaboration with the Laboratory of Mathematical Analysis of Geomagnetic Data the regional geomagnetic data node of the Russian INTERMAGNET segment is being created on the basis of these two laboratories. A particular feature of this node is the automated system for recognition of artificial disturbances on incoming magnetograms, which is being introduced.

In Laboratory of Geophysical Data the research of relationship of Solar and geomagnetic activity with seismicity of the Earth and volcanic eruptions is conducted. The statistical analyze of the long-term data on seismicity, volcanism, Solar and geomagnetic activity with 1700 for 2007 allow to assume existence of the general secular cycles of endogenous activity of the Earth and Solar activity. It is marked that the strongest earthquakes happen in the beginning of each secular cycle. In the end of 90th years of the last century there has come a new secular cycle. In the beginning of this cycle eleven-year Solar cycles with a small number of spots, typical for the beginning of secular cycles, and the strong seismic activity which will be saved throughout several tens years will be watched. Earthquakes on December, 26th, 2004 with magnitude М=9, on March, 21st, 2005 with М=8.6 around Indonesia, earthquakes in 2006 and 2007 with М > 8, Chilean – on February, 27th, 2010 with М=8.9 and the last disastrous Japanese earthquake on March, 11th, 2011 with М=9 confirm this conclusion. The assumption made in the previous research in 2004 of increase of seismic activity on the near future was confirmed.