Emerging Research Summit 2007 - Participant Bios
AISTI 2007 EMERGING RESEARCH SUMMIT
Santa Fe, NM - May 16-17 2007
PARTICIPANT BIOS
Margaret Alexander From a background in museums and museum libraries, Alexander organized the Santa Fe Institute's first library from collections donated by eminent scientists. Since then the library has grown to reflect the wide-ranging interests of researchers who engage in multi-disciplinary collaboration and pursue an understanding of the common themes that arise in natural, artificial, and social systems.
Miriam Blake is the Interim Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library. She has been involved with digital library technology at the Research Library for 10 years, and has a background in the Library automation industry before coming to Los Alamos. She was involved in the development and deployment of the LANL Library's XML-based, large-scale, biblographic search engine (SearchPlus), the full-text search and browse application (Science Server), and more recently with implementation of the aDORe repository architecture. Interests include digital library standards and repository interoperability initiatives, including OAI-ORE, and directions for libraries in the networked worlds of social software.
Larry Carver is Director of Library Technologies and Digital Initiatives at the University of California Santa Barbara Libraries - Responsible for all digital technologies supporting library services and processing; this includes Director of Map and Image Library, Library Systems, the Alexandria Digital Library and PI on NGDA funded by the Library of Congress www.ngda.org. Major accomplishments include: The Designing and building of the Map and Imagery Laboratory (MIL). The building of the MIL data collections to more than five million data objects. Developed industrial partnerships with hardware, software and other data archive resources. Put into operation the geospatial digital library Alexandria (ADL). He provided leadership for developing spatial data management requirements for extending library services via a series of grants from the Keck Foundation, RLG, NSF and Library of Congress. Current projects are the restructuring of IT within the Davidson Libraries to support Enterprise computing, digital services, network environments and the building of the National Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA) under sponsorship of the Library of Congress.
Sayeed Choudhury is the Associate Director for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Knowledge Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. He serves as principal investigator for projects funded through the National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Mellon Foundation. He has oversight for the digital library activities and services provided by the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University.
Paul N. Courant is University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Professor of Economics and Professor of Information at the University of Michigan. From 2002-2005 he served as Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs, the chief academic officer and the chief budget officer of the University. He has also served as the Associate Provost for Academic and Budgetary Affairs, Chair of the Department of Economics and Director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies (which is now the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy). In 1979 and 1980 he was a Senior Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. Paul Courant holds a BA in History from Swarthmore College (1968); an MA in Economics from Princeton University (1973); and a PhD in Economics from Princeton University (1974).
Brad Eden is Associate University Librarian for Technical Services and Scholarly Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Previous positions include Head, Web and Digitization Services, for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries; Head, Bibliographic and Metadata Services for the UNLV Libraries; as well as Coordinator of Technical Services for the North Harris Montgomery Community College District. He is editor of OCLC Systems & Services: Digital Library Perspectives International and The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances, is associate editor of Library Hi Tech and The Journal of Film Music, and is series editor of the Routledge Music Bibliographies. He has a masters and Ph.D. degrees in musicology, as well as an MS in library science. He publishes in the areas of metadata, librarianship, medieval music and liturgy, and J.R.R. Tolkien. He recently edited Innovative Redesign and Reorganization of Library Technical Services: Paths for the Future and Case Studies (Libraries Unlimited, 2004), and is the author of Metadata and Its Applications (ALA TechSource, 2002), 3D Visualization Techniques (ALA TechSource, 2005), Innovative Digital Projects in the Humanities (ALA TechSource, 2005), Metadata and Its Applications: New Directions and Updates (ALA TechSource, 2005), and FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (ALA TechSource, 2006).
James Frew is an Associate Professor in the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and a principal investigator in UCSB's Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS). His research is centered on applications of computing technology to environmental science, particularly involving digital geolibraries and Earth science workflow management.
Dr. Frew received his Ph.D. in Geography from UCSB in 1990. As part of his doctoral research, he developed the Image Processing Workbench, an open-source set of software tools for remote sensing image processing, currently used for instruction and research at UCSB and elsewhere. He has served as both the Manager and the Acting Director of the Computer Systems Laboratory (ICESS' predecessor), and as the Associate Director of the Sequoia 2000 Project, a 3-year $14M multi-campus consortium formed to investigate large-scale data management aspects of global change problems. He was a co-PI on the Alexandria Project (part of NSF's Digital Libraries Initiative), where he directed the development of the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT) testbed system. Dr. Frew also served on the National Research Council's Committee on Earth Science Data Utilization (CESDU).
Dr. Frew currently leads the Earth System Science Server project (part of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners), and serves on several NASA advisory committees. During the 2005-2006 academic year he was a visiting professor at the University of Edinburgh's Digital Curation Centre.
Chuck Henry is president of the Council on Library and Information Resources. Formerly Mr. Henry was vice provost and university librarian at Rice University, where he was responsible for library services and programs, including the Digital Library Initiative and the Digital Media Center. He was an adjunct professor in the School of Engineering's Department of Computer Science and publisher of Rice University Press, recently reborn as the nation's first all-digital university press. Mr. Henry is a trustee of the Digital Library Federation and chair of the advisory committee for the Information Resource Center at the International University of Bremen. He serves on the advisory board of Stanford University Libraries and on the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities and Social Sciences. He received a Fulbright senior scholar grant for library sciences in New Zealand and a Fulbright award for the study of medieval literature in Vienna, Austria. Mr. Henry has a Ph.D. degree in comparative literature from Columbia University.
James Hilton As Vice President and Chief Information Officer and a Professor in the Department of Psychology, Dr. Hilton is charged with coordinating information technology-related activity. Prior to this appointment at U.Va., Dr. Hilton was a member of the faculty at the University of Michigan in the Institute for Social Research and in the Psychology Department where he served as the Chair of Undergraduate Studies between 1991 and 2000. He is a three-time recipient of the LS&A Excellence in Education award, has been named an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor (1997-2006), and received the Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award. He has published extensively in the areas of person perception, stereotypes, and the psychology of suspicion. With Charles W. Perdue, he published "Mind Matters," a multimedia CD-ROM that combines text with interactive exercises and multimedia elements and places them in a navigational structure designed to nurture exploration. Dr. Hilton received a B. A. in Psychology from the University of Texas in 1981 and a Ph.D. from the social psychology program at Princeton University in 1985.
Greg Janee is a research specialist for the Institute for Computational Earth System Science and for the Map & Imagery Laboratory, Davidson Library, both at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). He is currently working in two areas: methods and architectures for discovery of distributed, heterogeneous geospatial data and, more generally, digital library support of Earth science data lifecycles; and long-term preservation of geospatial data. The latter work is for the National Geospatial Digital Archive, a joint UCSB-Stanford project funded under the Library of Congress's National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP).
Previously, Greg was technical leader of the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) and Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT) projects; principal developer of the Alexandria Digital Library software; and principal author of the ADL gazetteer and thesaurus protocols.
His experience prior to the Alexandria project was in software engineering for commercial and government clients in the areas of object-oriented class libraries; 2D, 3D and fractal-based visualization; rule-based expert systems; compilers and query languages; and embedded database systems.
Greg holds an M.S. in computer science and a B.S. in mathematics (summa cum laude), both from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Ron Larsen has his PhD. From University of Maryland College Park. His research interests are digital libraries. interoperability. scalability. cross-lingual information retrieval. location-aware computing. mobile computing. computer and network performance analysis. performance metrics for distributed digital libraries. His recent publications are : Larsen, Ronald, and Wactlar, Howard. June, 2003. Knowledge Lost in Information. Report of the NSF workshop on future research direction for digital libraries. www.sis.pitt.edu/~dlwkshop, Larsen, Ronald, and Jean Scholtz. 2002. Book Chapter. In Cancer Informatics: An Essential Technology for Clinical Trials, eds. J. Silva, M. Ball, et al. Springer Verlag, Larsen, Ronald, (multiple authors). October, 2002. Rover: Scalable Location-Aware Computing. IEEE Computer 46-53.
David W. Lewis has a BA in History form Carleton College, an MLS from Columbia University, and two certificates of advanced study in librarianship, one from the University of Chicago and one from Columbia University. He began his library career as a reference librarian, but quickly became an administrator. He worked at SUNY Farmingdale, Hamilton College, Franklin and Marshall College, Columbia University, and the University of Connecticut. In 1993 he came to Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis as the Head of Public Services and has been the Dean of the University Library since 2000. He has written on reference services, management of libraries, and scholarly communication. He is a masters swimmer and enjoys cooking, scuba diving, and traveling to parts of the world where red wine is made.
Rick Luce is the Vice-Provost and Director of Libraries at Emory University. He manages the Main (Robert W. Woodruff) Library, Business, Chemistry, Music and Media, and the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library (MARBL) -- and is responsible for university-wide library policy with the directors of the Health, Law, Theology, and Oxford College Libraries. Prior to joining Emory, Rick was the Research Library director at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1991-2006). He holds numerous advisory and consultative positions supporting digital library development, electronic publishing and scholarly communication.
Carol Mandel Carol A. Mandel is dean of the Division of Libraries at New York University, which includes the Libraries, Media Services, University Archives and the NYU Press. She has been deputy university librarian at Columbia University, associate university librarian for technical and access services at the University of California, San Diego, and associate executive director of the Association of Research Libraries. The focus of her professional interests has included digital library development, scholarly publishing, preservation and bibliographic access. Her recent publications and presentations have explored the research library and digital infrastructure for research support, transitions and new models in scholarly communication, and access to primary resources. She is President of the Digital Library Federation and a member of the Research Libraries Group (RLG) Program Council and the OCLC Board Committee on RLG, the Board of Directors of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Board of Directors of ArtStor, the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress, the Portico Advisory Committee, and the ARL Steering Committee on Scholarly Communication. Ms. Mandel holds a BA in Art from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and masters degrees in Art History and in Library Service from Columbia University.
Thomas Daniel ("Tom") Moritz, Associate Director for Administration / Chief of Knowledge Management, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2006-present). Tom has been a leading participant in international efforts to provide for open access and responsible use of knowledge resources in the natural and biological sciences and more recently has shifted focus to the arts and humanities. A 1972 graduate of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, he completed his MLIS at Pratt Institute in New York (1974) and subsequently completed three years of graduate work in Chinese Regional Studies at the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Affairs. He had previously served as Director, Library Services at the American Museum of Natural History (1999-2006) and as Academy Librarian at the California Academy of Science (1986-1998).
He has worked as an advisor on environmental conservation knowledge resource management in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Pacific and Latin America and continues to serve as a member of the World Commission on Protected Areas of IUCN co-chairing the Information Management Task Force. (He is a past member of the Social Insects Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission.) He also serves as a member of the Interim Steering Committee for the Conservation Commons (http://www.conservationcommons.org/). He is a member of the Science Advisory Board for the US National Biological Information Infrastructure, the National Visiting Committee for the US National Science Digital Library (NSF), the Publications Committee for the Science Commons and has served/serves on numerous other advisory bodies, visiting committees and peer review panels. He is the author of many publications and presentations.
Susan Nutter is Vice Provost and Director of Libraries at North Carolina State University and a member of its Council of Deans. Under her leadership the NCSU Libraries' ranking in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Index has risen from 101st to 27th. Nutter is active on numerous library associations including the Steering Committee and is a founder of NC LIVE - North Carolina Libraries for Virtual Education, a public-private venture that places a virtual library in the reach of every one of North Carolina's 7.5 million residents. She has served on many boards and is a past President of the Association of Research Librariesp(ARL), and past Chairman of the SOLINET Board of Directors.
Karin Wittenborg has been University Librarian at the University of Virginia since September 1993. At Virginia Karin has led many major initiatives, including the creation of one of the first mass digitization projects, the construction of a new special collections library, the hosting of annual Scholarly Communications Institutes and the development of the open-source digital library software, Fedora, both funded by The Mellon Foundation, and many ground-breaking projects in digital scholarship and scholarly communications. She serves on several boards and advisory councils, and received U.Va.'s Zintl Leadership Award as well as the ACRL's "Excellence in Academic Libraries" award. She previously held positions at UCLA, Stanford, MIT, and the State University of New York. She received a BA from Brown University and an MLS from SUNY-Buffalo.
Johann van Reenen is a Professor of Librarianship and Adjunct Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. He is the Assistant Dean for Research and Instruction at the University Libraries. Johann has been active for many years in digital open access scholarship, especially in Latin America. He has been a frequent chairman of the Alliance for Innovation in Science & Technology Information and the Director, for the past decade, of the Digital Library Linkages Program of the Ibero-American Science & Technology Education Consortium. Both these organizations have significant Digital Library projects and include important digital library sites in Latin America and the USA. Before coming to New Mexico in 1996, he was at the University of British Columbia Libraries in Vancouver, Canada. He has published over 50 articles and three books.
Terry Yates BS Degree, 1972, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky; MS Degree, 1975, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; Ph.D. Degree, 1978, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. Current positions: Vice-President for Research and Economic Development, University of New Mexico; Professor of Biology and Pathology, University of New Mexico; and Curator of Genomic Resources, Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico. Immediate past positions: Vice-Provost for Research, University of New Mexico; Director Division of Environmental Biology, National Science Foundation; Professor and Chair, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico; Director, Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico; Director, Systematic Biology Program; and Head Systematic and Population Biology Cluster, National Science Foundation. Past Chairperson, Systematic Collections Committee and International Relations Committee, American Society of Mammalogists. He also has over 125 papers published in refereed outlets. Currently funded research projects on surveillance and monitoring of Hantavirus in natural populations of mammals (CDC), International Center for Infectious Disease Research (NIH), Bioscience Center for Informatics (DARPA), University DTRA Partnerships (DTRA), the Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research project (NSF), Ecological Drivers of Rodent-borne Disease Outbreaks: Trophic Cascades and Dispersal Waves (NSF).
