Laura Brenskelle
Physical Scientist, Data Management & Product Development At NOAA IOOS
North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolLaura Brenskelle is a scientific data management specialist with nine years of experience who leads metadata strategy and product development for NOAA data programs, currently supporting IOOS and previously heading the NCEI Metadata Team. She holds a Ph.D. in Zoology with training in geological and biological sciences, and her research background in biodiversity informatics and specimen data management informs pragmatic improvements to data discoverability and reuse. Laura excels at bridging stakeholders, software developers, and data scientists to translate domain needs into metadata and tooling that enable cloud transitions and increased data value. She co-authored NCEI’s “Value of Data: Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction” report, demonstrating an ability to synthesize community needs into actionable recommendations. Based in North Carolina, she’s a resource for others leaving academia and brings uncommon cross-disciplinary fluency across museums, geoscience, and operational environmental data systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biological Sciences, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biological Sciences at Clemson UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Master of Science (M.S.), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at The University of Texas at AustinUniversity of Colorado at BoulderDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Zoology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Zoology at University of Florida
English
Github Skills (18)
internals7
traits6
bioinformatics5
ontologies5
darwin4
ack4
monarchinitiative3
electrophysiology3
ontology2
biodiversity-informatics2
pipeline2
throughput2
python1
data-management1
ecology1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lbrensk/lbrensk.github.io
May 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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