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Joan Damerow

Project Scientist

Building 074, Room 0107C

Phone: 510-685-3120

joandamerow@lbl.gov

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As an aquatic ecologist and biodiversity informatics specialist, Joan is interested in best practices for using environmental data and biodiversity records to determine changes over time. Her past research focused on resurvey studies of biological indicator groups for freshwater ecosystem health, including dragonflies and benthic macroinvertebrates. This work involved digitizing natural history specimens and other historical data, and extensive data quality control. Joan worked in a team to develop an online platform for specimen label transcription, and managed citizen science outreach and education efforts. She has expertise in data curation and analysis of opportunistic datasets, which requires error detection and accounting for collection biases. She has also worked in an interdisciplinary team to study how researchers are using primary biodiversity databases in published research.

Joan is currently interested in ensuring that important environmental datasets are standardized, curated, and made publicly accessible. As a postdoc at LBNL, she will be working with the community of Earth and Environmental Scientists to develop and use relevant data standards in their work.

   

Education

  • Ph.D., Environmental Science, Policy and Management (focus on aquatic ecology), UC Berkeley, 2014
  • B.S., Environmental Studies, Emory University, 2005

Experience

  • Project Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2021-Present
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2018-2021
  • Bass Postdoctoral Fellow, Field Museum of Natural History, 2016-2018
  • Wildlife Biologist, Wetland Research Associates, Inc., 2015-2016
  • Graduate Student Reseacher, UC Berkeley, 2008-2014
  • Graduate Student Reseacher, Essig Museum of Entomology, 2010-2014
  • Environmental Scientist, Iris Environmental, 2005-2008
  • Summer Systematics Intern, California Academy of Science, 2003
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