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.