TEAM

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

LEADERSHIP

	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)
	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.

TEAM

	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.
	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 utilizing community research and feedback to design a comprehensive data package review process that will increase both the efficiency of the publication workflow and the quality of ESS-DIVE datasets. She has experience with data package organization and quality management as a member of the NGEE Tropics data team.
	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.
	Madison Burrus, mburrus@lbl.gov *Research Assistant* Madison is a research assistant supporting ESS-DIVE metadata processing workflows, data organization and data management. She has prior experience working with data management frameworks that will assist in the development of programmatic archiving standards.
	Maegen Simmonds, mbsimmonds@lbl.gov *Project Scientist* Maegen is a soil biogeochemist and data scientist with extensive field, modeling, and computer programming experience in ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycling and land-based climate change mitigation. She is on the Community Engagement team to evaluate the model data storage capabilities needed by the ESS modeling community. She co-developed the California Natural and Working Lands Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Model (CALAND) for the State of California to inform its Climate Change Implementation Plan and greenhouse gas reduction targets. Maegen is also the co-modeling lead as part of the UC Working Lands Innovation Center. In this project she will use experimental field data to develop models that can quantify regional-scale carbon sequestration potentials of various soil amendments applied to agricultural lands across California.
	Rob Crystal-Ornelas, rcrystalornelas@lbl.gov *Postdoc Researcher* Rob is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Energy Geosciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received his BA in Biology from Boston University and PhD in Ecology and Evolution from Rutgers University. In his doctoral research, he specialized in meta-analysis and aggregated data from thousands of articles on invasive species impacts to identify the taxa, ecosystems, and spatiotemporal scales that received the most and least published research. He is passionate about science outreach and volunteers with Clubes de Ciencia and hosted the podcast Science in Progress. At LBNL he works with the ESS-DIVE data repository and focuses on the development and adoption of data standards.

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 @NERSC

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

PARTNERS @OSTI

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

ARCHIVE PARTNERSHIP BOARD

The ESS-DIVE Archive Partnership board is a representative body of ESS-DIVE’s main stakeholders. Its members consist of the principal investigators of major ESS projects/programs, and some ESS-funded university projects. The board provides requirements and feedback to inform the development of ESS-DIVE features and provide direction to its community engagement activities.