Board of Directors

Paul Hanson has over 20 years of expertise in ecological and marine science, with extensive experience in utilizing scientific data repositories for open and collaborative research. He is a Distinguished Research Professor and Principal Investigator of the Environmental Data Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Lead-PI on the Ecological Knowledge Guided Machine Learning initiative.

Stephanie Hampton is Director of the Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) at UC Davis and a professor of Environmental Science and Policy, bringing two decades of experience in freshwater ecology. Formerly a director at the National Science Foundation, she also leads the Ecological Society of America, focusing on climate change impacts on aquatic ecosystems.

Justin is a Registered Patent Attorney with degrees from UW-Madison in Chemical & Biological Engineering, Biochemistry, and Law, is a Senior Intellectual Property Manager at WARF. He manages intellectual property in chemistry and engineering, with experience in patent drafting, prosecution, and process engineering.