D. Sarah Stamps is the Lead Investigator of BALTO. She is an Assistant Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Geosciences at Virginia Tech. Her research group is the Geodesy and Tectonophysics Laboratory. Scientifically, she is interested in measuring the Earth's surface motions with millimeter precision and using computational modeling to understand the physical processes driving Earth's volcanism, earthquakes, and continental deformation. Sarah is co-Chair of the EarthCube Science and Engagement Team, is an active member of the EarthCube Council of Funded Projects, and serves on the EarthCube Working Group for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Dan Fuka is a Faculty Research Scientist in the Department of Biological Systems and Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research interests include cross-domain studies into multi-ecosystem natural resource systems, exploring innovations to improve environmental resource sustainability, and developing cutting edge approaches for natural systems modeling and data collection around the world. Dan is an active member of the EarthCube Science and Engagement Team.
Emmanuel Njinju utilizes BALTO brokering cyber-infrastructure for scientific applications. He is currently a PhD student that uses high performance computing to solve problems related to continental rifting, melt generation, volcanism, and interactions of Earth's interior with the surface. He will graduate in December 2020 and become a postdoctoral scholar in the Geodesy and Tectonophysics Laboratory. Emmanuel is an Early Career At-Large member of the EarthCube Leadership Council and serves on the EarthCube Working Group for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Rufus Hinton IV is a lab assistant for the Geodesy and Tectonophysics Laboratory. He is currently a Sophomore who is majoring in Computer Engineering, focusing in Chip-Scale Integration, and minoring in Mathematics. Rufus serves as the BALTO project assistant.
Zach Easton is a Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Biological Systems and Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research addresses both native and managed systems, considers processes at plot- to large river basin-scales, and is relatively evenly divided among field study/monitoring, modeling, and application of results to real world problems.
James Gallagher is a BALTO Co-Investigator for the development of the broker, based on the Hyrax data server. He is currently President of OPeNDAP™, a not-for-profit corporation that provides the open-source Hyrax data server. James is an active member of the EarthCube Council of Funded Projects.
Kodi Neumiller is a computer scientist at OPeNDAP. He develops cyberinfrastructure for the BALTO project related to brokering with the NSF CIG finite element code ASPECT. Kodi developed the BALTO ASPECT URL Reader, which he is now revising to read NetCDF files.
Nathan Potter is a computer scientist at OPeNDAP. He develops cyberinfrastructure for the BALTO project related to extending existing Hyrax services. Nathan developed and continues to support the BALTO Hyrax extension that allows for enhanced data discoverability, especially with Google Dataset Search and EarthCube GeoCODES.
Anne Sheehan is a Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research involves the use of geophysical methods, primarily seismology, but also including geodesy and electromagnetic methods, to understand mountain belts, subduction zones, and earthquakes. She is interested in the properties of the Earth’s crust and mantle, the nature of lithospheric deformation, and the causes and consequences of induced seismicity. Her research group's field based projects include broadband and short period seismometer deployments, ocean bottom seismic and seafloor pressure gauge measurements, magnetotellurics, and geodesy.
Maria Stoica is currently a research scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder and is affiliated with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. She works on knowledge representation (ontologies and metadata) for BALTO. She has also previously developed software tools for file format conversion.
Scott Peckham is a research scientist at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, which is a research institute at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He developed the BALTO Jupyter Notebook GUI and is a developer on numerous other EarthCube projects.
Hongda Wang is currently a Ph.D. student from University of Colorado Boulder. He is exploring use cases for the BALTO Jupyter Notebook GUI. Currently, Hongda is using the BALTO Jupyter Notebook GUI to access seismic models from the IRIS data management center and test algorithms for calculating Moho depths in the United States.