Staff Profile

Amber York

Preferred Name: Amber York

Information Systems Associate II

Biology

Email: adyork@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 3977

Lab/Group Site: http://www.bco-dmo.org/

Education

• B.A. Boston University, 2006, Biology with specialization in marine science
• M.S. Boston University, 2018, Computer Information Systems with concentration in web application development

Research Statement

I am a data manager at the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO DMO, http://bco-dmo.org/)

Past projects:

• HabCam: Habitat Mapping Camera System
• Panama Liquid Jungle Underwater Tropical Observatory (PLUTO)
• Polar Remote Interactive Marine Observatory (PRIMO)
• Okinawa Ocean Cube Observatory (with OIST)
• Oshima Ocean Cube Observatory (with Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology)

Certifications

Data and Software Carpentry Instructor, NAUI Advanced SCUBA Diver, EANX, and drysuit.

Research Interests

• Development of web-based data exploration and processing tools
  
• Helping others learn foundational skills in coding and data management best practices.
• Promoting open science, data, and code
  
• Application of image processing and machine vision techniques on large datasets
  
• Database design and management
  
• Benthic organism identification from images and physical specimens

Code Repos:

• https://github.com/adyork
• https://github.com/BCODMO

ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5133-5842 (see ORCID page for publications)