IN24A
Toward a Career in Data Science: Pathways and Perspectives I

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
2020 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Karen I Stocks, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Conveners:  Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Ruth Duerr, Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship, Westminster, CO, United States and Lynn Yarmey, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Karen I Stocks, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Ruth Duerr, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Lynn Yarmey, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Lynn Yarmey, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
16:00
Paths and Perspectives on Being a Data Scientist: Anatomy and Physiology (63294)
Peter Arthur Fox, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States
16:15
Identity crisis – am I a librarian or a geologist? Why not both. (84698)
Sarah Ramdeen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
16:30
From the field and lab to data wrangling and facilitating interagency collaboration- how I ended up in the data science world. (Invited) (81421)
James Kreft, U.S. Geological Survey Center for Integrated Data Analytics, Middleton, WI, United States
16:45
Data Management in the Wild (Invited) (48300)
Cynthia L Chandler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
17:00
Data Curation Education Grounded in Earth Sciences and the Science of Data (Invited) (60168)
Carole L. Palmer, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
17:15
Strategies for Building a Reliable, Diverse Pipeline of Earth Data Scientists (82351)
Rebecca Fowler and Erin Robinson, Foundation for Earth Science, St. Louis, MO, United States
17:30
Credentialing Data Scientists: A Domain Repository Perspective (Invited) (60437)
Kerstin A Lehnert, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
17:45
Panel Discussion