Ocean informatics

I coordinate WHOI’s Ocean Informatics Working Group and serve as WHOI's representative to the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP). I host Carpentries workshops at WHOI. My technical expertise can be characterized as implementing FAIR data – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable - for the ocean sciences. I am particularly interested in integrating heterogeneous and distributed data about the marine environment, and providing provenance (i.e., lineage) for the processing involved to produce oceanographic data products.

Current projects

Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: EMBARK: Developing essential skills to (re)use an ocean of data

New NSF-funded project starting January 2026

NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)

I serve on OOI's Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN) Data Team.

AccelNet-Implementation: Implementing a Deep Ocean Observing Strategy (iDOOS)

My involvement in iDOOS project is mainly for FAIR data training for Deep Ocean Early career Researchers (DOERs).

Previous projects

A Computational and Analytic Laboratory for Modeling and Predicting Marine Biodiversity and Indicators of Sustainable Ecosystems

Click for NSF Award and Project Outcomes 2015-2020

Interdisciplinary informatics in cooperation with USGS for decision support systems and policy

ECO-OP: Cyberinfrastructure for marine Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEAs)

Click for NSF Award and Project Outcomes 2010-2014