KAREN STOCKS

Director, Geological Data Center

Research Interests

Karen Stocks is an oceanographer and data scientist specializing in the documentation, discovery, access, integration, and curation of oceanographic data. Her expertise includes information systems for vessel-based sensors, scientific ocean drilling, hydrography, biodiversity and biogeography, metagenomics, and ocean observing systems.

Degrees

• 2000   PhD Biological Oceanography, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey | New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Thesis Title: Factors Determining Macroinfaunal Community Structure in Salt Marshes

• 1992    BSc Wildlife and Fisheries Biology (cum laude). University of Massachusetts | Amherst, MA, USA