From 65df519ce21ec37784c012a4c3343b8c4f3c7a4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefanie Butland Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 13:21:55 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] add 2023 Mentors names, Nikki's bio --- mentors.qmd | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mentors.qmd b/mentors.qmd index 16cdd3c..12614aa 100644 --- a/mentors.qmd +++ b/mentors.qmd @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ We will have Cohort Calls with the DAAC Mentors throughout 2021. Linked below ar ``` # Mentor Community -The NASA Openscapes Mentors community is growing! Mentors from five DAACs continuing from 2021 are noted with an \* below. We are excited to see the DAAC mentor community expand across the initial five DAACs to seven DAACS with ORNL and ASF Mentors joining us in 2022. Welcome! +The NASA Openscapes Mentors community is growing! Mentors from five DAACs who have continued from 2021 are noted with an \* below. We are excited to see the DAAC mentor community expand with ORNL and ASF Mentors joining us in 2022 and SEDAC and OBDAAC Mentors joining in 2023 for representation from nine DAACs all together. Welcome! ### Andy Barrett\* @@ -164,6 +164,10 @@ Chris is a Scientific Developer working at the Goddard Earth Sciences Data Infor ### Brandon Bottomley +### Ian Carroll + +### Matt Fisher + ### Aaron Friesz\* Aaron Friesz is the Science Coordination Lead at NASA's Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC). In his role, Aaron provides user needs insights and technical support for archive and distribution, service development, and outreach activities. He develops tutorials, scripts, and presentations that highlight the use of land remote sensing data in analysis workflows. More recently, his work has focused on advocating for the uptake of cloud computing in the land remote sensing community. @@ -178,6 +182,8 @@ Aaron Friesz is the Science Coordination Lead at NASA's Land Processes Distribut ### Mahsa Jami +### Daniel Kaufman + ### Alexander Lewandowski ### Bri Lind @@ -194,6 +200,12 @@ Bri is a Geospatial Data Scientist at NASA's Land Processes Distributed Active A ### Celia Ou +### Kytt MacManus + +### Juan Martinez + +### Victoria McDonald + ### Jack McNelis\* Jack McNelis is a Science Applications Software Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (and the PO.DAAC) with experience leveraging EOS data for rangeland ecosystem monitoring applications. He develops and curates metadata to describe PO.DAAC data holdings, and to better integrate them with data delivery services and end user softwares. He also develops resources for users to be better prepared to implement their analyses in the cloud. @@ -208,22 +220,34 @@ Brianna is the Lead Development Engineer at NASA's Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) ### Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian +### Navaneeth Selvaraj + ### Rupesh Shrestha ### Sargent Shriver ### Christine Smit +### Geoffrey Stano + ### Amy Steiker\* Amy Steiker is the NSIDC DAAC Data Services Engineer, specializing in the development and management of data education resources, tools, and services for NSIDC DAAC's growing user community, as well as data transformation service development for NASA EOSDIS. She is excited to join this first Openscapes cohort to work together with our science communities to develop and sustain tooling that supports their data processing workflows as they transition to the Earthdata Cloud. +### Lucas Sterzinger + +### Nikki Tebaldi + +Nikki Tebaldi is a Cloud Adoption Engineer for the Physical Oceanographic Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC). Nikki has led the migration of an on-premise workflow to the cloud which produces GHRSST Level 2P Sea Surface Temperature datasets and continues to work to improve the workflow architecture in the cloud. Her past and current work also includes integrating cloud-based data endpoints into a workflow that produces GHRSST Level 4 MUR Sea Surface Temperature datasets and architecting a cloud workflow that produces river discharge parameter estimates from SWOT data. Nikki is interested in collaborating on and developing strategies for migrating scientific workflows to the cloud. + ### Michele Thornton ### Makhan Virdi\* [Makhan Virdi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlvirdi/) is the ASDC DAAC Scientist, experienced in creating geospatial tools and services for science-based analysis, visualization (UI/UX), discovery and distribution of data generated by field/laboratory observations, remote sensing, and model simulation. He is interested in AI/ML for earth science data, multi-sensor data fusion, and data analytics in the cloud. He is excited to be part of the Openscapes community, and is looking forward to learning from peers, and sharing his knowledge and skills with the community to develop and promote data science techniques, best practices, and inter-agency collaborations. +### Guoqing Wang + ### Jess Welch Since September 2018, [Dr. Jessica Nicole Welch](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicanicolewelch/) has held a position at the ORNL DAAC, which specializes in data archive for terrestrial biogeochemistry, ecology, and environmental processes. Her work focuses on dataset curation, project coordination, and science communication. Jess holds a PhD in Conservation Biology from the [Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology](https://eeb.utk.edu/) at the University of Tennessee. When she's not working at ORNL or participating in community service, she plays [Ultimate](https://www.usaultimate.org/about/ultimate/) with her friends.