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February 17, 2007

NEON Selects Mathematician As Project Manager

Minnesota native Karin A. Remington has been named Project Manager for the National Ecological Observatory Network. Her initiation into the NEON planning effort was immediate.

“My first day on the job was at the Boulder site selection meeting in February, 2007, and it was a terrific introduction to the design process and the level of engagement with the scientists who will be both supporting and using NEON,” said Remington, who brings experience in large-scale scientific data collection and analysis to NEON, as well as an interest in microbial ecology. “I’m really excited by the scope of this project, and the extent of community involvement.”

Dr. Remington earned her Masters and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky before receiving a two-year appointment as Householder Fellow in Scientific Computing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She then joined the Mathematical Software Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, before moving to the Informatics Research group at Celera Genomics.

Following the sequencing of the drosophila, human, mouse, and mosquito genomes, Dr. Remington joined Craig Venter at his then fledging Venter Institute in 2002, where she built a team of computational scientists and software engineers working in genome assembly, environmental genomics, and comparative genomics. Her work there ranged from a detailed comparative analysis of the dog, mouse, and human genome sequences to the comprehensive analysis of environmental samples from the Sargasso Sea.