About me
I am a research data librarian at the University of Texas at Austin, where I provide cross-disciplinary support to researchers on best practices for managing and sharing research data and software in collaboration with a range of different units in the libraries and across campus. My work to support researchers at UT Austin is informed by my previous work as a data curator for the Dryad Digital Repository, where I handled more than 6,000 research datasets across topics, and my 15 years of (ongoing) experience as a scientific researcher (BA in Geology from Pomona College; PhD in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from the University of Toronto). I have long been interested in improving the ways in which scientific research is done, from crediting contributions beyond articles to critically interrogating long-standing conventions, and find myself constantly going back and forth between broad digital scholarship spaces and narrow disciplinary bubbles.
