Dr. Kerstin A. Lehnert

Pronouns: she/her

Doherty Senior Research Scientist, Marine and Polar Geophysics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School

Geoinformatics Building
61 Route 9W
PO Box 1000
Palisades, NY 10964

BIOGRAPHY:

Kerstin Lehnert is Doherty Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and Director of the Geoinformatics Research Group. Kerstin's work centers on the development and operation of community-driven data infrastructure for the Earth and space sciences and, in particular, on using cyberinfrastructure to improve access and sharing of data generated by the study of physical samples. Kerstin leads the IEDA data facility that operates data services for sample-based data, specifically data systems for geochemistry and petrology including EarthChem and the Library for Experimental Phase Relations (NSF funded); the Astromaterials Data System (NASA funded); and the System for Earth Sample Registration (NSF funded). Kerstin is currently member of the NOAA Science Advisory Board's Data Archive & Access Requirements Working Group and of the Science Advisory Board of the Distributed Information System for Scientific Collections DISSCo. She has been a member of the NASEM Division Committee for the Gulf Research Program;  chair of the EarthCube Council of Data Facilities; President of the IGSN e.V., member of the NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure; member of the Board of Directors of the American Geophysical Union AGU; and President of the AGU Earth and Space Science Informatics Focus Group. 

PROJECTS

Only select projects listed below
Name Start Date End Date
Advancing Data Access for the Deep Carbon Community 1/1/16 10/31/16
Advancing the Data Infrastructure for Reservoirs and Fluxes Research in the Deep Carbon Observatory 1/1/14 12/31/14
AstroDB Phase 1: Establishing the Foundation of the Astromaterials Data System 9/28/18 1/31/19
Coalition for Publishing Data in the Earth & Space Sciences (COPDEES) workshop 10/15/15 7/14/17
Collaborative Proposal: EarthCube Integration: THROUGHPUT: Standards and Services for Community Curated Repositories 9/1/17 8/31/19
Collaborative Research: Open Core Data: Transformative Data Infrastructure for Integrating and Accessing Scientific Drilling and Coring Data 7/1/16 6/30/19
Collaborative Research: Proposal for an NSF-Wide Workshop to Explore the Prospects for a Common Response to the Requirements for Public Access to Research Data 9/15/16 8/31/18
Collaborative Research: SI2-SSI: The community-driven BiG CZ software system for integration and analysis of bio- and geoscience data in the critical zone 12/1/13 11/30/17
Defining the Future of IGSN as a Global Persistent Identifier for Material Samples 8/1/18 7/31/20
EAGER: Collaborative Research: Supporting Public Access to Supplemental Scholarly products Generated from Grant Funded Research 9/1/16 8/31/19
EarthCube Building Blocks: Collaborative Proposal: GeoLink - Leveraging Semantics and Linked Data for Data Sharing and Discovery in the Geosciences 9/1/14 8/31/17
EarthCube Building Blocks: Community Inventory of EarthCube Resources for Geoscience Interoperability 9/15/13 8/31/17
EarthCube Domain End-User Workshop: Community-Based Cyberinfrastructure for Petrology and Geochemistry 2/15/13 1/31/16
Earthcube IA: Collaborative Proposal: Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance as a Model for Integrati 9/1/15 8/31/19
EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences 9/15/13 8/31/18
EarthCube RCN: iSAmpLEs: The internet of Samples in the Earth Sciences 9/1/14 8/31/19
EarthCube Science Support Office (ESSO) 7/28/17 4/30/18
EarthCube Test Enterprise Governance: An Agile Approach 9/30/13 9/29/14
Geoinformatics Facilities Support: Integrated Data Collections for the Earth & Ocean Sciences: The Marine Geoscience Data System and the Geoinformatics for Geochemistry Program 10/1/10 9/30/17
IEDA 2016-2021: Operation of a Multi-Disciplinary Data Facility for the Earth Science Community - MG/EarthChem/SESAR 2/15/17 4/30/22
Integrated Data Management System for Critical Zone Observatories 12/1/12 3/31/16
MoonDB Phase 2: Restoration of Lunar Geochronological and Lunar Meteorite Data 3/1/18 2/28/20
Reservoirs and Fluxes Community - The Deep Carbon Observatory 1/1/19 12/31/19
Reservoirs and Fluxes Community-The Deep Carbon Observatory 4/1/17 3/31/19
Sub-award for Geo-informatics Project WF-2175 8/1/12 7/31/15
To Develop DiamondDB, A Community Data Infrastructure for Diamond Research within the Deep Carbon Observatory 12/1/12 12/1/13
USGS -IEDA Partnership to Support a Data Lifecycle Framework and Tools 10/1/13 9/30/17
Development and Operation of the Astromaterials Data System 7/1/19 6/30/24
EarthCube Data Capabilities: Collaborative Proposal: Reducing Time-To-Science in the Earth Sciences: Annotations to Foster Convergence, Inclusion, and Credit 9/15/19 8/31/22
Collaborative Research: EarthChem & SESAR - Data Infrastructure for Geochemistry and Earth Science Samples Communities 5/15/20 4/30/24
Collaborative Research: Network Hub: Enabling, Supporting, and Communicating Critical Zone Research 9/1/20 8/31/25
Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Internet of Samples: Toward an Interdisciplinary Cyberinfrastructure for Material Samples 8/15/20 7/31/24
Collaborative Research: EarthCube Data Capabilities: A Data-Driven Modeling Infrastructure to Support Research and Education in Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology 8/15/20 7/31/23
RCN: Sampling Nature: A Network to Enhance the Natural History Value Chain for Sustainability Science 4/15/21 3/31/24
Continuing Operations Proposal: The United States Polar Rock Repository as a Research Tool forUnderstanding Antarctica's Geological Evolution 5/1/21 3/31/22
The Astromaterials Data System: Enabling FAIR Astromaterials Samples Data through Trusted Archiving Services and Broad Community Engagement 10/1/23 9/30/28
Collaborative Research: Facility: Next Generation Interoperable Data Infrastructure for Geoscience Sample Data (EarthChem, LEPR/traceDs, SESAR): IEDA Reinvented 6/1/22 7/31/27
2022 NSF CSSI PI Meeting 7/1/22 6/30/23

PUBLICATIONS

KLÖCKING, M., WYBORN, L., LEHNERT, K.A., WARE, B., PRENT, A. M., PROFETA, L., KOHLMANN, F.  et al. "Community recommendations for geochemical data, services and analytical capabilities in the 21st century." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.04.024

MA, X., RALPH, J., ZHANG, J., QUE, X., PRABHU, A., MORRISON, S.M., HAZEN, R. M., WYBORN, L., LEHNERT, K. "OpenMindat: Open and FAIR mineralogy data from the Mindat database." Geoscience Data Journal (2023). https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.204

KLUMP, J., FILS, D., DEVARAJU, A., RAMDEEN, S., ROBERTSON, J., WYBORN, L. and LEHNERT, K.  Scaling Identifiers and their Metadata to Gigascale: An Architecture to Tackle the Challenges of Volume and Variety. Data Science Journal22, pp.5-5. (2023)

CHAMBERLAIN, K.J., LEHNERT, K.A., MCINTOSH, I.M. et al. Time to change the data culture in geochemistry. Nat Rev Earth Environ 2, 737–739 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00237-w

DAVIES, N., DECK, J., KANSA, E. C., WHITCHER KANSA, S., KUNZE, J., MEYER, C., ORRELL, T., RAMDEEN, S., SNYDER, R., VIEGLAIS, D., WALLS, R., & LEHNERT, K., Internet of Samples (iSamples): Toward an interdisciplinary cyberinfrastructure for material samples, GigaScience, Volume 10, Issue 5, May 2021, giab028, https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giab028

KLUMP, J., LEHNERT, K., ULBRICHT, D., DEVARAJU, A., ELGER, K., FLEISCHER, D. et al.. “Towards Globally Unique Identification of Physical Samples: Governance and Technical Implementation of the IGSN Global Sample Number.” Data Science Journal. 2021;20(1):33. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2021-033

BRANTLEY, S. L., WEN, T., AGARWAL, D. A., CATALANO, J. G., SCHROEDER, P. A., LEHNERT, K., VARADHARAJAN, C., et al. "The future low-temperature geochemical data-scape as envisioned by the US geochemical community." Computers & Geosciences 157 (2021): 104933.

HORSBURGH, J. S., HOOPER, R. P., BALES, J., HEDSTROM, M., IMKER, H. J., LEHNERT, K. A., SHANLEY, L. A., STALL, S. (2020), “Assessing the state of research data publication in hydrology: A perspective from the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Incorporated.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, e1422, https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1422

STALL, S., YARMEY, L., CUTCHER-GERSHENFELD, J., HANSON, B., LEHNERT, K., NOSEK, B., PARSINS, M., ROBINSON, E., WYBORN, L. (2019), “Make scientific data FAIR.” Nature, 570(7759):27-29. doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01720-7.

STALL, S., YARMEY, BOEHM, L. COUSIJN, H., CRUSE, P., CUTCHER-GERSHENFELD, J., DASLER, R., DE WAARD, A., DUERR, R., ELGER, K., FENNER, M., GLAVES, H., HANSON, B. HAUSMAN, J. HEBER, J., HILLS, D., HOEBELHEINRICH, N., HoOU, S., KINKADE, D., KOSKELA, R., MARTIN, R., LEHNERT, K., MURPHY, F., NOSEK, B., PARSONS, M. A., PETTERS, J., PLANTE, R., ROBINSON, E. SAMORS, R., SERVILLA, M., ULRICH, R., WITT, M., WYBORN, L. (2018), "Advancing FAIR Data in Earth, Space, and Environmental Science." EOS, 99, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO109301.

STALL, S., ROBINSON, E., WYBORN, L., YARMEY, L. R., PARSONS, M. A., LEHNERT, K., CUTCHER-GERSHENFELD, J. NOSEK, B., HANSON, B. (2017), “Enabling FAIR data across the Earth and space sciences.” Eos, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO088425.

HSU, L., MAYORGA, E., HORSBURGH, J.S., CARTER, M., LEHNERT, K., BRANTLEY, S. (2016), “Enhancing Interoperability and Capabilities of Earth Science Data using the Observations Data Model 2 (ODM2).” Data Science Journal. 16, p.4. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2017-004

McNUTT, M., LEHNERT, K. A., HANSON, B., NOSEK, B., ELLISON, A.M., King, J.L. (2016), “Liberating field science samples and data.” Science, volume 351, 1024-1026.

HORSBURGH, J. S., AUFDENKAMPE, A. K., MAYORGA, E., LEHNERT, K. A., HSU, L., SONG, L., JONES, A. S., DAMIANO, S. G., TARBORTON, D. G., VALENTINE, D., ZASLAVSKY, I., WHITENACK, T. (2016), “Observations Data Model 2: A community information model for spatially discrete Earth observations”, Environmental Modelling & Software, volume 79, 55–74.

HSU, L., LEHNERT, K. A., GOODWILLIE, A., DELANO, J.W., GILL, J.B., TIVEY, M.A., FERRINI, V.L., CARBOTTE, S.M., ARKO R.A. (2015), “Rescue of long-tail data from the ocean bottom to the Moon: IEDA Data Rescue Mini-Awards”, GeoResJ, vol. 6, 108-114.

HANSON, B., LEHNERT, K. A., CUTCHER-GERSHENFELD, J. (2015), “Committing to publishing data in the Earth and space sciences”, Eos, 96,doi:10.1029/2015EO022207.

NIU, X. Z., WILLIAMS, J. Z., MILLER, D., LEHNERT, K., BILLS, B., & BRANTLEY, S. L. (2014), “An Ontology Driven Relational Geochemical Database for the Earth's Critical Zone: CZchemDB”. Journal of Environmental informatics, 23(2), 10-23.

BOLUKBASI, B., BERENTE, N., CUTCHER-GERSHENFELD, J., DECHURCH, L., FLINT, C., HABERMAN, M., KING, J. L., KNIGHT, E., LAWRENCE, B., MASELLA, E., MCELROY, C., MITTLEMAN, B., NOLAN, M., RADIK, M., SHIN, N., THOMPSON, C. A., WINTER, S., ZASLAVSKY, I., ALLISON, M. L., ARCTUR, D., ARRIGO, J., AUFDENKAMPE, A. K., BASS, J., CROWELL, J., DANIELS, M., DIGGS, S., DUFFY, C., GIL, Y., GOMEZ, B., GRAVES, S., HAZEN, R., HSU, L., KINKADE, D., LEHNERT, K., MARONE, C., MIDDLETON, D., NOREN, A., PEARTHREE, G., RAMAMURTHY, M., ROBINSON, E., PERCIVALL, G., RICHARD, S., SUAREZ, C., WALKER, D. (2013), "Open Data: Crediting a Culture of Cooperation." Science. 342. (2013): 1041-1042.

NIU, X., LEHNERT, K. A., WILLIAMS, J., BRANTLEY, S. L. (2011), “CZChemDB and EarthChem: Advancing management and access of critical zone geochemical data”, Applied Geochemistry, 26, Suppl. 1, S108-S111.

GOLDSTEIN, S. L., SOFFER, G., LANGMUIR, C.H., LEHNERT, K. A., GRAHAM, D. W., MICHAEL, P. J. (2008), “Origin of a ‘Southern Hemisphere’ geochemical signature in the Arctic upper mantle”, Nature, 453, 89-93.

MICHAEL, P.J., LANGMUIR, C.H., DICK, H. J. B. , SNOW, J. E., GOLDSTEIN, S. L., GRAHAM, D. W., LEHNERT, K., KURRAS, G., JOKAT, W., MÜHE, R., EDMONDS, H. N. (2003), “Magmatic and amagmatic seafloor generation at the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel ridge, Arctic Ocean”, Nature, 423, 956-961.

STAUDIGEL, H., HELLY, J., KOPPERS, A.P., SHAW, H., McDONOUGH, W., HOFMANN, A.W., LANGMUIR, C.H., LEHNERT, K., SARBAS, B., DERRY, L., ZINDLER, A. (2003), “Electronic data publication in geochemistry.” G3, Volume 4.

LEHNERT, K.A., SU, Y., LANGMUIR, C.H., SARBAS, B., NOHL, U. (2000), "A global geochemical database structure for rocks", G3, Vol.1.