Open science,
across the
natural world.
Building cyberinfrastructure tools for biology, ecology, agriculture, and earth science — participating in Team Science across dozens of institutions.
A constellation of collaborations.
Active projects, the funders behind them, and the domains they share. Hover a node to trace its connections; tap a domain on the perimeter to filter by field.
Eight papers that matter most right now.
A small slice of recent and frequently-cited publications. The full list — including reports, preprints, and book chapters — lives on the publications page.
Workshops, fellowships, and a learning center.
No formal credit courses; instead, intensive cohorts on the foundations of open science and digital literacy, run through the CyVerse Learning Center and partner programs.
"Foundational Open Science Skills" — a multi-week cohort for early-career scientists, run each spring since 2018.
Co-developed with The Carpentries and Research Bazaar Arizona, the program emphasizes reproducible research, version control, containerization, and the ethics of open data.
I'm also a member of The Carpentries instructor community and a regular collaborator with NSF's Data Science Fellows network.
Becoming more FAIR, with CARE, & TRUST
Public datasets, open-source software, and reproducible research pipelines — versioned, citeable, and (mostly) containerized.
Published datasets
Lidar, drone imagery, dendrochronology, and ecological time-series — released through CyVerse Data Commons, ORNL DAAC, and Zenodo.
Open-source tools
Python and R libraries for forest inventory, point-cloud processing, and Earth-Engine analysis. Most ship as Docker images.
Talks & training
Conference talks, workshop curricula, and the FOSS cohort — slides, video, and notebooks, all CC-BY.
Occasional writing.
Slow-published essays on AI, agriculture, open science, and a year's worth of weather.
From a wildland fire crew in Southern Arizona, to an applied artificial intelligence research professional.
Fire ecologist → data scientist → cyberinfrastructure project leader. The arc has its logic, looking back.
My first career was with the U.S. Department of the Interior at Saguaro National Park (2002–2005), on the Rincon Mountains wilderness firecrew.
That work pulled me into a master's with the Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research Laboratory — using dendrochronology and GIS to reconstruct historical fire regimes in Utah.
During my PhD I worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the Coronado National Forest Supervisor's Office (2008–2012) as a Fire Management Specialist, while researching restoration ecology, GIS, and remote sensing in watershed management.
Working with large remotely-sensed datasets is what carried me, eventually, into geoinformatics and cyberinfrastructure for the life and earth sciences.