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Career

· Director, President, and CEO, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)2021–
· Director of the Commons Lab, The Wilson Center2011–2014
· B.S. in Physics, Florida State University
· Presidential Innovation Fellow, NASA and GSA 18F
· Founding Co-Executive Director, NSF South Big Data Innovation Hub
· Ph.D. in Geographic Information Science and Earth observation, University of Wisconsin-Madison
· Research Fellow at Nelson Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison
· AAAS Congressional Science Fellow and Science Advisor, US Senate

Publications (31)

Citizen science can improve conservation science, natural resource management, and environmental protection
2017
954
cited
Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Nature Sustainability · 2019
495
cited
Contours of citizen science: a vignette study
Royal Society Open Science · 2020
117
cited
Investing in citizen science can improve natural resource management and environmental protection
2015
116
cited
Tweeting Up a Storm: The Promise and Perils of Crisis Mapping
2013
61
cited
ECSA's Characteristics of Citizen Science
2020
58
cited
Sharing data while protecting privacy in citizen science
INTR · 2014
58
cited
The problem with delineating narrow criteria for citizen science
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
51
cited
Data democracy – increased supply of geospatial information and expanded participatory processes in the production of data
International Journal of Digital Earth · 2015
46
cited
On Cybersecurity, Crowdsourcing, and Social Cyber-Attack
2013
38
cited
Policy Perspectives on Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice · 2019
28
cited
Capturing and communicating impact of citizen science for policy: A storytelling approach.
Journal of Environmental Management · 2021
26
cited
AI ethics and data governance in the geospatial domain of Digital Earth
Big Data & Society · 2022
15
cited
Project Categories to Guide Institutional Oversight of Responsible Conduct of Scientists Leading Citizen Science in the United States
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice · 2019
13
cited
A U.S. Research Roadmap for Human Computation
arXiv.org · 2015
7
cited
Assessing the state of research data publication in hydrology: A perspective from the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Incorporated
WIREs Water · 2020
6
cited
Advancing diversity in human centered data science education through games
ASIS&T Annual Meeting · 2020
3
cited
Antisocial computing
Interactions · 2014
3
cited
Author Correction: Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Nature Sustainability · 2019
3
cited
Delineating the contours of citizen science: Development of the ECSA characteristics of citizen science
Open Research Europe · 2025
2
cited
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