Stephen Richard
President at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Richard is a geoinformatics leader and geologist with over 20 years of field mapping experience and more than a decade designing data models, XML schemas, and interoperable geoscience services. As President of the U.S. Geoscience Information Network and former head of geoinformatics at the Arizona Geological Survey, he has combined hands-on regional mapping in Arizona with national-scale architecture for discovery and data services. He helped develop GeoSciML and other XML markup standards and has led implementation of OGC web services and metadata-driven catalogs for research and government use. Stephen’s work spans technical roles—from CIO and chief architect for the National Geothermal Data System to NSF-funded EarthCube projects—bridging domain science and information architecture. Now consulting from Tucson, he focuses on service implementation and practical knowledge representation that makes complex geoscience data discoverable and reusable. An early practitioner who pairs a PhD in geology with an electrical engineering undergraduate background, he brings an unusual blend of field geology, systems engineering, and standards development.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaBS, Earth and Planetary Science, Electrical Engineering, BS, Earth and Planetary Science, Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPhD, Geology, PhD, Geology at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (200)
ecology10
digital-humanities10
json-schema10
ontology10
metadata10
terminology10
data-management10
collation10
iso10
earth-science10
owl10
schema10
environmental10
ontologies10
ogc10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
amds-ldeo/Vocabulary
Jun 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 57 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 4 months
usgin/geoportal-server-catalog
Sep 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 10 months
search-applicationnext-generationgeoportalmetadataelasticsearch
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