Seydisfjordur, Iceland June 2019 Melinda Kernik is the Spatial Data Analyst and Curator for the University of Minnesota Libraries and U-spatial. She was interviewed by Susan Braxton in June, 2021. How did you come to your current position? I was a graduate student at University of Minnesota in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society. … Continue reading Get to Know DCN Curator Melinda Kernik!
Category: Curators’ Corner
This post is part of our Curators Corner series. Every so often we'll feature a different DCN Curator. The series grew out of a community-building activity wherein curators at our ten partner organizations interview each other “chain-letter style” in order to get to know each other and their work outside of the DCN better. We … Continue reading Get to Know DCN Curator Susan Braxton!
Jon Petters is Assistant Director of Data Management and Curation Services at Virginia Tech. He was interviewed by Marley Kalt in July 2020. How did you come to your current position? I’ve been working at Virginia Tech for four years now. My wife got a professor position in Blacksburg, and I was lucky enough to … Continue reading Get to Know DCN Curator Jonathan Petters!
Marley Kalt is a Data Management Consultant at Johns Hopkins University. She was interviewed by Andrew Battista in July 2020. How did you come to your current position? I recently completed a Master’s in Information Science. Before graduate school I knew I wanted to go into academic librarianship, and through digital curation coursework and extracurricular … Continue reading Get to Know DCN Curator Marley Kalt!
Andrew Battista is the Librarian for Geospatial Information Systems at New York University. He was interviewed by Jen Darragh in May 2020. How did you come to your current position? I completed a Ph.D. in English Literature and took a library job as an Information Literacy and Reference Librarian at a small liberal arts school. … Continue reading Get to Know DCN Curator Andrew Battista!
Jen Darragh is a Senior Research Data Management Consultant for the Duke University Libraries. She was interviewed by Liza Coburn in May 2020. How did you come to your current position? I’ve been involved in some aspect of research data since I graduated from college. I started out working on a longitudinal research data project … Continue reading Get to Know DCN Curator Jen Darragh!
Susan Borda is the Data Workflow Specialist atthe University of Michigan Library. She was interviewed by Dave Fearon in January, 2020. How did you come to your current position - when did you start and where were you before this? June 2017. Montana State University. I had jobs in Higher Ed and corporate IT for … Continue reading Get to know DCN Curator Susan Borda!
Dave Fearon is a Senior Data Management Consultant atJohns Hopkins University. He was interviewed by Alicia Hofelich Mohr in January, 2020. How did you come to your current position? I originally got a PhD in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara. Neither I nor my wife wanted to be professors (nor were the offers coming), so … Continue reading Get to know DCN Curator Dave Fearon!
Alicia Hofelich Mohr is the Research Support Coordinator for Liberal Arts Technologies and Innovation Services (LATIS) at the University of Minnesota. Alicia was interviewed by Sophia Lafferty-Hess in September, 2019. How did you come to your current position? I came to this position in a roundabout way, like a few other curators. I was in … Continue reading Get to know DCN Curator Alicia Hofelich Mohr!
Sophia Lafferty-Hess is a Senior Research Data Management Consultant at Duke University. Sophia was interviewed by Seth Erickson in August, 2019. How did you come to your current position? I got involved in data curation and data management during graduate school at UNC. I did an internship at the Odum Institute for Research in Social … Continue reading Get to know DCN Curator Sophia Lafferty-Hess!