Staff Profile

Amber York

Preferred Name: Amber D York

INFO SYSTEMS ASSOCIATE II

BIOLOGY

Email: adyork@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 3977

Office: SHIVERICK 

Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,   Mail Stop 36
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

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:

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