Photo: Fellows and EDI team members at the data publishing workshop at UNM in June 2019.
- Information on previous fellowship programs: 2018, 2019
- EDI Fellowships Q&A
EDI has awarded eleven fellowships for its ecological data management training program for Summer 2020. The fellows will receive training in ecological data management and gain hands-on experience through participation in data preparation, archiving and publishing with scientists and information managers from specific host research sites. For a list of host sites, on-site mentors and fellows, see here.
Due to the COVID-19 health situation, we have moved to online instruction for our data publishing workshops and summer fellowship program until it is safe to gather in person again.
Important dates
- Fellowship training workshop: 9 June – 11 June 2020
- Host site fellowship: 15 June – 14 August 2020
EDI-hosted data publishing workshop
The fellowship is preceded by a mandatory online data publishing workshop (June 9 – June 11, 2020), during which the fellows learn about data cleaning and formatting, metadata content, the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) and how to create EML using the R programming environment. Furthermore, the fellows will be instructed on how to archive data packages in the EDI data repository.
Please contact Susanne Grossman-Clarke (grossmanclar@wisc.edu) if you have questions.
Host sites and on-site mentors for training program
- California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Location: Stockton, CA
Mentor: Dr. Jereme Gaeta (jereme.gaeta@wildlife.ca.gov), Fellow: Madeleine Frick
“Archiving historical datasets from the San Francisco Bay Estuary (SFE), including (1) a periodic Delta-wide (freshwater and brackish area of the SFE) shoreline electrofishing survey and (2) a fish survey of Suisun Marsh, an area critical to the ecology of endangered Delta Smelt.”
- Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership. Location: Rockland, ME
Mentor: Phoebe Jekielek (phoebe@hurricaneisland.net), Fellow: Dennise Valadez
“Planning for the future: Organizing data and developing data management, data use, and data sharing plans for the Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership.” - LTER soil organic matter synthesis working group. Location: Tempe, AZ
Mentors: Dr. Stevan Earl (stevan.earl@asu.edu) & Dr. Will Wieder (wwieder@ucar.edu), Fellow: Nathan Haywood
“Publishing data from numerous cross-site, coordinated research activities that are contributing to a synthetic analysis of factors controlling the persistence and vulnerability of soil organic matter.” - Marine Science Institute, University of California SB. Location: Santa Barbara, CA.
Mentor: Margaret O’Brien (margaret.obrien@ucsb.edu), Fellow: Judith Sclafani
“Harmonizing meteorological data in the EDI repository.” - Natural Resource Ecology Lab. Colorado State University. Location: Fort Collins, CO
Mentor: Chris Dorich (chris.dorich@colostate.edu), Fellow: Sydney Lewis
“Archiving and publishing of a workflow documents and data products.” - Organization for Tropical Studies. Location: La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica.
Mentor: Enrique Castro (lead mentor), Eugenio Gonzalez, Orlando Vargas, Deedra McClearn (deedramcclearn@gmail.com), Fellows: Melissa Salva and Eric Johnson
“Rescuing Legacy Data on Native Tree Growth in Costa Rica.” - Pepperwood Preserve. Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Mentor: Dr. Tosha Comendant (tcomendant@pepperwoodpreserve.org)
“Long-term monitoring of climate, hydrology, vegetation, and wildlife in inner Coast Ranges of California.” Fellow: Ashley Whipple
- Stroud Water Research Center. Location: Avondale, PA
Mentor: Dr. Charles Dow (cdow@stroudcenter.org), Fellow: Kyle Zollo-Kenecek
“Compiling, cleaning, and publishing, stream water quality and quantity time series data collected via low-cost sensors built on an open-source electronics platform at the White Clay Creek stream/watershed. An example of the types of data involved can be viewed here for a site near the research facility.” - University of California Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory (SNARL). Location: Mammoth Lakes, CA
Mentor: Dr. Thomas C. Smith (tcsmith@ucsb.edu), Fellow: Claire Pavelka
“The Sierra Lakes Inventory Project: non-native fish and community composition of >8,000 lakes and ponds in the Sierra Nevada, California.” - University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS). University of Michigan. Location: Pellston, MI
Mentor: Jason Tallant (jtallant@umich.edu), Fellow: Alex Pawlik
“Organize data collected from various federally funded projects at UMBS for publication and work with web based metadata management tools and associated database(s).”