Amanda Liford
Biography
Amanda Liford is a science data manager at the U.S. Geological Survey, within the Science Analytics Synthesis program, and the Science Data Management branch. She is responsible for managing the USGS Data Mangement Website, a resource for best practices and guidance on data-related topics. She is a core member of teams managing ScienceBase data release, the USGS Model Catalog, and the Community for Data Integration.
Education
- Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, TN
B.A. in Ecology & Biodiversity (2016) - University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
M.S. in Library & Information Science (2019)
Science and Products
USGS enterprise tools for efficient and effective management of science data
The Science Data Management Branch (SDM) of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides data management expertise and leadership and develops guidance and tools to support the USGS in providing the nation with reliable scientific information on the basis of which to describe the Earth. The SDM suite of tools supports the USGS Data Management...
Hutchison, Vivian B.; Liford, Amanda; McClees-Funinan, Ricardo; Zolly, Lisa; Ignizio, Drew; Langseth, Madison; Serna, Brandon; Sellers, Elizabeth; Hsu, Leslie; Norkin, Tamar; McNiff, Marcia; Donovan, Grace
2021 CDI Workshop
CDI will be holding its biennial workshop virtually from May 25-28. Registration is now open.
February 10, 2021 CDI Monthly Meeting
The February 2021 Monthly Virtual Meeting will feature presentations on Bathymetry-VR (Virtual Reality) and a discussion on topics of interest for the 2021 CDI Workshop, revolving around Designing Data-Intensive Science.
January 13, 2021 CDI Monthly Meeting
The January 2021 Monthly Virtual Meeting will have presentations highlighting the Usability Collaboration Area, Advanced Scientific Computing in the USGS, including Rescale, and Collecting and serving imagery data online, including the NWIS Imagery Data Storage and Persistence Project.
December 9, 2020 CDI Monthly Meeting
The December 2020 Monthly Virtual Meeting will have a presentations on Software and Data Carpentries Online Training and Telling Data Stories with Jupyter Notebooks and Pangeo.
October 14, 2020 CDI Monthly Meeting
The October 2020 Monthly Virtual Meeting will have a presentations on serving the U.S. Geological Survey’s geochronological data, the Rocky Mountain Science Exchange, and a CDI pop-up lab where CDI Coordinator Leslie Hsu and other CDI members will answer questions from the CDI community.
September 9, 2020 CDI Monthly Meeting
The September 2020 Monthly Virtual Meeting will have a presentation on structured data on the web for earth science: emerging best practices and remaining challenges, and a CDI pop-up lab where CDI Coordinator Leslie Hsu and other CDI members will answer questions from the CDI community.
Recent CDI Activity
Find out more recent CDI Collaboration Area activity on the topics of machine learning, data curation tools, fire science, communicating hazard and risk science, and more!
August 12, 2020 CDI Monthly Meeting
The August 2020 Monthly Virtual Meeting will have a presentation on integrating a short-term climate forecast into a restoration management support tool, and a CDI pop-up lab where CDI Coordinator Leslie Hsu and other CDI members will answer questions from the CDI community.
July 8, 2020 CDI Monthly Meeting
The July 2020 Monthly Virtual Meeting will have presentations from USGS Science Analytics & Synthesis on Tools for USGS Science Data Management and from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) on the Mobile Awareness GEOINT Environment (MAGE) and MapCache mobile apps.