Elizabeth Lawrence
OBIS Capacity Development Officer at UNESCO/IOC Project Office for IODE
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolElizabeth Lawrence is an ecologist-turned data and capacity-development specialist with nine years’ experience, currently serving as OBIS Capacity Development Officer and data manager for the Horizon Europe BioEcoOcean project. She designs international training resources and tooling to standardize marine biological data and controlled vocabularies, combining her PhD-honed skills in large-scale literature synthesis (>1300 sources) with programming and data-management practice. A proven communicator and educator—having developed or taught ten courses and delivered over 15 public talks—she translates complex marine science into practical workflows for researchers worldwide. Outside work she is deeply involved in the martial arts community, where she balances discipline and mentorship that inform her collaborative, hands-on approach to capacity building.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Concordia UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Science (BSc) at Dalhousie University
English, French
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Github Skills (25)
eco9
ocean8
biology7
marine7
science6
rdf5
interoperability4
metadata4
knowledge-graph3
derived3
architecture3
ecosystem3
pixelfed2
taxonomy2
system-information2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
EliLawrence/EL-manual
Jun 2022 - Dec 2024
The OBIS manual
Contributions:8 PRs, 176 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
manualobis
BioEcoOcean/metadata-tracking-dev
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
Development repo for generating JSON-LD metadata files for BioEco EOV data
Contributions:9 PRs, 119 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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