Leveraging the Power of the DataONE Network: Community, Collaboration, and What’s Next

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.

As Director for Community Engagement and Outreach, Amber Budden works with the DataONE User’s Group, post-docs, and working group members to engage the community and provide education and outreach activities focussed on data preservation, management, use and reuse. Amber has a PhD in behavioral ecology and has conducted ecological and sociological research at the University of California Berkeley and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (UC Santa Barbara) in addition to teaching at York University and the University of Toronto in Canada. Amber is also a lead ont eh Arctic Data Center repository and worked in outreach and publications within the non-profit sector prior to joining DataONE.

Ian Nesbitt is a Research Software Engineer at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, UCSB. Ian helps develop open-source software for use in science as part of the NCEAS Informatics team. He has specific focuses in lightweight metadata compatibility, repository operations, and 3-D visualization. He has helped onboard various member nodes to the DataONE network and works on several other projects housed at NCEAS. Ian has a background in geophysics and earth science and has worked previously in Panama and Antarctica as well as on land and in and waterways around the US.

Angie is the Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator for both the Arctic Data Center and DataONE, where she furthers both projects’ presence in their respective communities and the broader community. She holds a B.A. in Global Studies and Environmental Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Angie has helped other think-and-do tanks with science communication and further developed her leadership skills through various roles in organizations while at UCSB. She brings a passion for science communication and graphic design that she leverages to support both projects while at NCEAS.