How can DataONE interact with emerging networks

Kerstin Lehnert is Doherty Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and Director of the NSF-funded data facility IEDA (Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance). Kerstin holds a PhD in Petrology from the University of Freiburg in Germany. Over the past 15 years, her work has mostly centered on the development of community-driven data infrastructures for the solid Earth sciences and, in particular, on using cyberinfrastructure to improve access and sharing of Earth and space science data and physical samples, and on advancing data access and the data sharing culture in ‘small data’ communities.

Margaret O’Brien is the information manager for the Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research project (SBC LTER). She is also part of the EDI team where she assists in the design and development of efficient means to assure data submission by community members based on needs assessments and community science priorities. Margaret is based at the University of California at Santa Barbara and may be reached at margaret.obrien@ucsb.edu.

Following retirement from a long and distinguished career at the National Center for Atmospheric Research Mike Daniels is now a Research Scholar at the Ronin Institute and serves as the Chair of the EarthCube Leadership Council.

Dr Pip Bricher is the data officer for the Southern Ocean Observing System, based at IMAS. She focusses on finding ways to improve and encourage data sharing in the Southern Ocean. Before taking up this role, Pip was a development and extension officer for the Sense-T viticulture program at UTAS, working with wine grape growers to collect data for a tool to better predict outbreaks of fungal disease in grape crops. She came to that role from a post-doctoral fellowship in plant community ecology at the University of Queensland, and a PhD in mapping methods for the vegetation of sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, conducted through the University of Tasmania. Her relationship with the Antarctic began with her masters thesis on the spatial ecology of Adélie penguins at Casey, Antarctica.Alongside her graduate studies, Pip was an associate lecturer in Geographic Information Systems, and worked on geographically-focussed research consultancies.

Matt directs the Informatics program at NCEAS, which focuses on both supporting efficient synthesis through scientific computing and on building new advanced infrastructure to support data sharing, preservation, analysis, and modeling. Matt is the Director of the DataONE program, a global network of interoperable data repositories, and of the NSF Arctic Data Center. In addition to data infrastructure work at NCEAS, Matt also helps to build the NCEAS Learning Hub through an emphasis on data science and reproducible research teaching.

Matt’s career has focused on improving data science infrastructure to support cross-disciplinary and synthetic science, principally through the development of open source software for data repositories, metadata systems, and reproducible analysis and modeling.

Matt has a M.S. in Zoology from the University of Florida that focused on the ecology of plant-animal interactions, and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.