Meghan Balk
Postdoctoral Fellow at Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolMeghan Balk is a postdoctoral fellow and interdisciplinary researcher with 11 years of experience building collaborative data infrastructures at the nexus of biology, geology, archaeology, and information science. She has led international fieldwork and multi-institution teams, served as PI on NSF FAIR Open Science projects integrating CARE principles, and implemented FAIR machine learning pipelines for specimen- and time-series data. Meghan’s background in paleobiology and ontology-driven trait standardization enables her to translate domain knowledge into reusable data and metadata standards that bridge legacy and modern datasets. She is skilled at securing funding, mentoring early-career researchers, and operationalizing ethical governance for open science across distributed networks. Outside of work she’s often rock-climbing, a hobby that mirrors her tendency to tackle complex, multi-layered problems from unusual angles.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity, Bachelor of Science - BS, Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity at University of California, DavisDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology at The University of New Mexico
Github Skills (65)
ontology10
owl10
ontologies10
anatomy10
biodiversity10
concert10
geneontology10
bioinformatics10
monarchinitiative10
traits10
electrophysiology9
metadata9
semantic-web9
open-science9
open-data9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
futres/template
Apr 2019 - Aug 2022
user template for FuTRES data import
Contributions:17 releases, 5 PRs, 101 pushes in 3 years 5 months
templatetemplatesdata-import
SmithLabUNM/GlobeTrotters
Apr 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:72 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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