TEAM

Our multidisciplinary ESS-DIVE team includes computer/data scientists, earth scientists, and digital librarians.

BERKELEY LAB TEAM

	Deb Agarwal, daagarwal@lbl.gov ESS-DIVE Lead Deb is the lead PI for ESS-DIVE, and is responsible for management and oversight of the project. Deb is a Senior Computer Science researcher and has substantial expertise in leading data activities for large-scale ESS projects (e.g., AmeriFlux, Watershed Function SFA, and NGEE Tropics). She heads the Data Science and Technology Department at Berkeley Lab, and is a member of the ESS Cyberinfrastructure Executive Committee.
	Charuleka Varadharajan, cvaradharajan@lbl.gov ESS-DIVE Deputy Lead, Lead: Community Engagement Charu is the Deputy Lead for ESS-DIVE. She also leads the Community Engagement task, working with the ESS community to build use cases for ESS data needs and deploy data standards, and leading outreach efforts. Charu is a biogeochemist and with expertise in groundwater quality and biogeochemical cycling of methane. She is working on synthesis and analysis of environmental datasets, and has developed software tools for the Watershed Function SFA and NGEE Tropics ESS projects. She is a co-chair of the ESS Cyberinfrastructure Data Management Working Group.
	Shreyas Cholia, scholia@lbl.gov Lead: User Services Shreyas serves as the chief architect on the project. He leads the User Services task, which will provide the key front-end capabilities for users such as the user portals and a queryable database. Shreyas is a computer scientist with demonstrated expertise in design and development of science gateways, computational frameworks, workflows for data intensive science at NERSC, and is a developer on KBase and the Materials Project.
	Cory Snavely, csnavely@lbl.gov Lead: Preservation Services Cory leads the Archive Preservation Infrastructure task to implement long-term preservation and availability of data through ESS-DIVE. His work involves the implementation of infrastructure at NERSC, which will function as the primary node for ESS-DIVE, and to manage the partnership with the NCEAS DataONE archive to ensure data redundancy. Cory is the NERSC Infrastructure Services Group Lead. He has demonstrated expertise developing and supporting digital library systems, processes, and policy as the manager of Library IT Core Services at the University of Michigan.
	Val Hendrix, vchendrix@lbl.gov Lead Software Engineer Val is the lead software engineer building the ESS-DIVE infrastructure. Val has a Master’s in Computer Science and 15+ years industry software development experience. She has demonstrated experience with DevOps, scientfic workflows (Tigres), satellite data processing (CAMP) and has been an integral member of several earth and environmental sciences projects for collecting and synthesizing environmental data sets (BASIN-3D, NGEE-Tropics Data Archive, Watershed Function SFA Data Portal)
	Fianna O’Brien, flobrien@lbl.gov Software Engineer Fianna is a software engineer supporting archival data transitions and data publication for ESS-DIVE. She has experience managing publication data and creating data driven outreach tools for large-scale ESS projects. She holds a B.A. in Computational Linguistics from Hampshire College.
	Hesham Elbashandy, helbashandy@lbl.gov Software Engineer Hesham is a usable software systems and integrated frameworks engineer who is working on ESS-DIVE web platform and API package service, developing testing suites for ESS-DIVE API service. His experience is demonstrated in developing web services. He received his B.Sc with a major in Computer Engineering from in 2017.
	Makayla Shepherd, mrshepherd@lbl.gov Software Engineer Makayla is a computer systems engineer in the Computational Research Division at LBNL working on the ESS-DIVE infrastructure. She comes from USGS Astrogeology department and she got her bachelors at Northern Arizona University.
	William Riley, wjriley@lbl.gov Senior Personnel Bill is on the Community Engagement team and is a key interface for interaction with  ESS projects. Bill is a climate scientist who has substantial experience in using data to develop and evaluate land models. He is developing and applying the ILAMB package to analyze terrestrial processes. He is also a Land Modeling co-lead for ACME.
	Dan Gunter, dkgunter@lbl.gov Senior Personnel Dan is designing the data processing workflows in the User Services task and works on implementation of the User Services. Dan is a computer scientist and has expertise in data and knowledge frameworks and has played a leading role on KBase and the Materials Project.
	Karen Whitenack, kwhitenack@lbl.gov Project Administrator Karen serves as the key administrative contact  for the ESS-DIVE project. Karen has extensive experience providing high-level project management support to collaborative teams including assistance with budgets, reporting, coordinating team meetings, program reviews and communication.  Ms. Whitenack holds a BA in Social Ecology from UC Irvine.
	Joan Damerow, JoanDamerow@lbl.gov Environmental Data Standards Postdoc Researcher Joan is an environmental scientist with a diverse background in geoscience sampling, freshwater ecology, and biodiversity informatics. She will be engaging with our community of data contributors to identify, develop, and implement practical data standards in ESS-DIVE. Community adoption of standards will enable more effective search capabilities, data integration, reuse.
	Emily Robles, emilyarobles@lbl.gov Data Management Assistant Emily is a student assistant managing and organizing data for ESS-DIVE, as well as working with community outreach to improve standardized methods for data packaging and submission. As a current undergraduate studying Environmental Science at UC Berkeley, she is interested in future implementation of skills she has learned with both the ESS-DIVE and NGEE Tropics teams.
	Zarine Kakalia, zarinekakalia@lbl.gov Data Management Assistant Zarine assists the data management team with reviewing metadata before publication, improving the publication workflow between databases, and creating a streamlined method to identify and track samples. She is currently an undergraduate student studying Environmental Science at UC Berkeley.

PARTNERS @NERSC

The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) will be the primary data center for ESS-DIVE.

PARTNERS @NCEAS

The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at UC Santa Barbara is partnering on  implementation of the data preservation component, including providing replication to NCEAS and other DataONE nodes. NCEAS is a DataONE member and a recognized expert in ecological data, digital libraries, and standards for data format.

PARTNERS @OSTI

The DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) is partnering on providing DOIs and metadata enhancement for data packages.