This seminar will be an engaging conversation with Dr. Elise Zipkin and her students on their tenacious approach to implementing data and software stewardship and sharing within their lab. Dr. Zipkin and researcher Kayla Davis will share their experience, the value the team sees in adopting these practices, their challenges, and how this lab practice prepares them for sharing more broadly.

Speakers:

• Elise F Zipkin, Director, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program, Michigan State University; Associate Editor, Journal of Animal Ecology (bio)
• Kayla Davis, Ph.D. Candidate, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program, Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University (bio)

This series is supported and guided by these collaborating societies and federations:

• AAAS/Science
• American Astronomical Society
• American Chemical Society
• American Geophysical Union 
• American Meteorological Society, Board on Data Stewardship
• British Ecological Society
• Council of Scientific Society Presidents
• Ecological Society of America
• Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology
• Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry