Rebecca R. Hernandez,^* Matthew S. Mayernik,^** Michelle L. Murphy-Mariscal,^*** Michael F. Allen<sup>***


*</sup>Rebecca R. Hernandez (rebecca.hernandez@stanford.edu) is a doctoral student in environmental Earth system science at Stanford University, in Stanford, California. She studies plant and soil ecological processes using sensor technologies and computational tools.
^**Matthew S. Mayernik is a research data services specialist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado. He received his PhD in information studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2011. He studies data and metadata management practices across scientific disciplines.
^***Michelle L. Murphy-Mariscal is a research scientist and Michael F. Allen is the director at the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of California, Riverside. MLM-M uses imaging technologies to study corridor ecology in southern California, and MFA leads the Terrestrial Ecology Observing Systems program for the Center for Embedded Networked Systems Consortium.