Deana Pennington, Research Assistant Professor

Develops cyberinfrastructure for ecology Conducts integrated analysis of field, GIS, sensor, and image data Environmental- and ecoinformatics Phone: 505 277 2595 Email: dpennington@lternet.edu

Deana is Research Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico. She has a multi-disciplinary background that includes a PhD in physical geography and geographic techniques, a Master's in Geology, and five years of work experience in computer technology. Her research interests revolve around the application of information technology for integrated and synthetic analysis of environmental and ecologic data. She has conducted landscape-scale research in the areas of forest disturbance and wildfire, drought affects in semi-arid grasslands, biogeography and biodiversity, using integrated analysis of field, GIS, and remotely-sensed data.

Prior to obtaining her PhD, Deana managed a team of programmers for a software firm, with responsibility for developing program specifications based on client requirements. She continues in that capacity in the SEEK project, where she interacts with computer scientists and software engineers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the National Center for Ecological Synthesis and Analysis (NCEAS) in the development of cyberinfrastructure to meet the needs of ecologists and environmental scientists in the 21st century.