Our Team

Because we live in an era where we may only meet in person sporadically, we felt it would be nice to introduce ourselves here to help you put a face to the emails / Slack messages / GitHub issues we exchange going forward! If you would like to email the whole team as one send your questions to scicomp [at] nceas.ucsb.edu

Casey O’Hara

Past Team Members

We have been privileged to work with the following teammates who have since gone on to other positions.

Nick J Lyon (they/them)

njlyon0.github.io – njlyon0 – nick.lyon [at] wisc.edu

Nick focused on supporting working groups particularly in the data harmonization phase of their work and also was a consistent leader in building capacity within groups by offering workshop-style trainings. Nick now works for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Data Science Institute as a data scientist.

Angel Chen (she/her)

angelchen7.github.io – angelchen7 – angel.chen.ac3656 [at] yale.edu

Coming from a background in statistics and data science, Angel supported working groups by developing data pipelines and reproducible analytical workflows to integrate various sources of data. She now works for the Malone Disturbance Ecology Lab at Yale University as a data scientist.

Julien Brun (he/him)

brunj7.github.io – brunj7 – @brunj7 – jb160 [at] ucsb.edu

Julien was responsible for mentoring the other members of the scientific computing support team as well as advising researchers on how best to address their data challenges with scripted, reproducible solutions. Julien now works for the UCSB Library team as a research facilitator in the earth and environmental sciences. Julien is also a Lecturer in the Master in Environmental Data Science program at Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara, where he teaches “good enough” practices in reproducible and collaborative data science.