Julien Brun

I am currently an Earth & Environmental Sciences Research Facilitator in the Research Data Services team that UCSB Library where I help researchers to make their science more reproducible. Previously, I was a Senior Data Scientist at the National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis (NCEAS). There I helped researchers to solve their analytical and computing challenges while promoting a collaborative and reproducible approach to synthesis science. Julien is also a Lecturer for the Bren Master of Environmental Data Science (MEDS) program. My scientific expertise is in ecohydrology, Earth observation techniques (remote sensing and GIS), and process-based modeling. Prior to conducting my PhD on the ecohydrological impacts of tropical cyclones in the Southeastern US, I conducted several projects on land cover change, vegetation monitoring, and disaster mapping for governmental and international institutions. I am also co-leading the development of two R packages: lterdatasampler to create ready-to-use teaching datasets for environmental data science training and metajam which helps scientists to download data & metadata from dataONE in a user-friendly format.