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Carly Strasser is a Data Curation Project Manager at the California Digital Library University of California Curation Center (UC3).  She received her Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program and has since transitioned to working on issues related to scientific data sharing. She currently is the project manager for the the Data Curation for Excel (DCXL) project at UC3.  The goal of this project is to facilitate data management, sharing, and archiving for earth, environmental, and ecological scientists; more information is available at http://dcxl.cdlib.org. 

Michael Hulsey is a technical applications specialist in the Immunocytometry Systems Group of Becton Dickinson Biosciences, the largest vendor of cytometry equipment in the world. Hulsey received his M.S. degree in cell physiology from Georgia State University in 2001. He has worked at BD Biosciences since 2007 and is responsible for providing technical assistance to BD customers with all of the instrumentation produced by BD.

Kelvin K. Droegemeier earned a B.S. with Special Distinction in Meteorology in 1980 from the University of Oklahoma, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in atmospheric science in 1982 and 1985, respectively, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the University of Oklahoma faculty in September, 1985 and in 1987 was named a Presidential Young Investigator by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Droegemeier's research interests lie in thunderstorm dynamics and predictability, variational data assimilation, mesoscale dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, massively parallel computing, and aviation weather. An expert in aviation forensic meteorology, he has served as a consultant to Honeywell Corporation, American Airlines, Continental Airlines, the National Transportation Safety Board, and Climatological Consulting Corp.

G. Sayeed Choudhury is the Associate Dean for Research Data Management and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. He is also the Director of Operations for the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) based at Johns Hopkins. Choudhury has also served as principal investigator for projects funded through the National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Microsoft Research.