OUR 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.
	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.
	Joan Damerow, joandamerow@lbl.gov *Community Engagement Lead Scientist* Joan is an environmental scientist with a diverse background in geoscience sampling, freshwater ecology, and biodiversity informatics. She runs engagement activities for ESS-DIVE, including ESS-DIVE webinars, our community data workshop, and is active in relevant conferences and data working groups (e.g. ESIP, RDA, AGU). Joan is interested in interdisciplinary data management and tracking, and works with our community of data contributors to identify, develop, and implement practical data standards in ESS-DIVE that support FAIR principles.

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.
	Emily Robles, emilyarobles@lbl.gov *Data Management Research Associate* Emily is a research associate and a member of ESS-DIVE’s Community Engagement team. Her work with ESS-DIVE focuses on utilizing community research and feedback to implement a comprehensive data package review workflow for data publication. She has experience with data package organization and quality management as a member of the NGEE Tropics data team and received her BS in Environmental Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
	Madison Burrus, mburrus@lbl.gov *Computer Systems Engineer* Madison is a computer systems engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. She supports ESS-DIVE metadata publication, data pipeline workflows, and feature development. Additionally, she is lead support staff and handles community inquiries. She holds a B.S. in Environmental Science from Stony Brook University.
	Dylan O’Ryan, dporyan@lbl.gov *Environmental Data Research Associate* Dylan is a research associate at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. As a member of ESS-DIVE’s Community Engagement Team, Dylan facilitates the implementation of data reporting formats and assists with the publication of datasets. He holds a B.S. in Environmental Studies from California State University, Sacramento.
	Lauren Core, lncore@lbl.gov *Communications* Lauren Nicole has experience in Europe and Central Asia, East Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, and South Asia with nonprofits, intergovernmental organizations, academia, government, and the private sector. She holds a master’s degree from King’s College London and a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley.
	Mario Melara, mamelara@lbl.gov *Software Engineer* Mario is a software engineer for the ESS-DIVE platform. working on various web applications such as the web UI catalog service, API package service and metadata service. His expertise is in DevOps and he has helped teams set up CI/CD pipelines around the lab. He received his BS in molecular biology from UC Davis and works part time with the Joint Genome Institute.
	Sarah Poon, sspoon@lbl.gov *Computer Systems Engineer* Sarah Poon is a Computer Systems Engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Her work primarily focuses on UX design / research and frontend development. She’s designed and developed UIs for science projects spanning a wide range of domains, including astrophysics, climate science, and systems biology, and user facilities, such as the Advanced Light Source (ALS) and the NERSC supercomputing facility.
	Shalki Shrivastava, sshrivastava@lbl.gov *Computer Systems Engineer* Shalki is an Integrated Data Systems Software Engineer working on ESS-DIVE to develop tools and services to support data management and development of new features for the platform. She has experience developing data pipelines and semantic tools enabling knowledge discovery. She holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from NC State University
	Danielle Christianson, DSChristianson@lbl.gov Computer Science Engineer I work with primarily earth science researchers to co-create data management tools and workflows to support their research. My role in the Scientific Data Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory combines UX research, full stack design and development, and operations. My background is diverse: mechanical engineering, ecology, new media, data science.

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.