Data
NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
I am the Science Lead for the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive (IRSA).
IRSA is chartered to curate the science products of NASA's infrared and submillimeter missions, including many large-area and all-sky surveys. In total, IRSA provides access to about a trillion astronomical measurements, including all-sky coverage in 29 bands. Approximately 15% of all refereed astronomical journal articles cite data sets curated by IRSA. In addition to observational data sets, IRSA provides access to simulated data that supports planning, analysis, and interpretation of NASA mission data.
Science platform
I provide leadership within the NASA Astrophysics archives to develop science platform capabilities that will bring together the big data, computing, and software that is necessary for astronomical analyses in the 2020s.
Data visualization
I am part of the leadership team that prioritizes development for “Firefly by IPAC”, an interactive web user interface for astronomical data access and exploration. In development since 2011, Firefly was originally developed for the Spitzer Heritage Archive, but the toolkit has since been adopted to build data portals for a number of projects, including WISE, Planck, PTF, and ZTF. In the future, Firefly will be used to discover and engage with data from Euclid, SPHEREx, and Rubin.
International Virtual Observatory Alliance
I advocate for the needs of scientists as a member of the IVOA Committee for Science Priorities.
The mission of the IVOA is to "facilitate the international coordination and collaboration necessary for the development and deployment of the tools, systems and organizational structures necessary to enable the international utilization of astronomical archives as an integrated and interoperating virtual observatory."