Julia Stewart Lowndes

Julia Stewart Lowndes is a marine ecologist and advocate for the open science movement and kinder, better science. The focus of her work is promoting openness to data in the scientific community, and helping fellow researchers learn how to work with open data and the processes surrounding it. She seeks to use this method to promote scientific communities and research. She also is an instructor for The Carpentries, as well as the co-founder of the groups Eco-Data-Science and R-Ladies Santa Barbara.