Data Management

Dr Anne M Treasure, Data, Products and Society Integrated Facility Manager at the South African Polar Research Infrastructure (SAPRI)

Anne has a background in the life sciences, predominantly in academic polar research spanning both the terrestrial and oceanographic sciences as well as the links between them. She has participated in oceanographic voyages to both the Prince Edward Islands and Antarctica, has overwintered on Marion Island, and has participated in a Prince Edward Island survey as well as many Marion Island takeovers.

Anne left academia to pursue her strong interests in data, open science, open data and reproducible research. Her career path has also included a number of years where she gained experience in consultancy, corporate, business and the finance industry. She has a diversity of expertise in data and information management, open science, reproducible research, data analytics and visualisation, data pipeline and workflow development, and project management, and a strong dedication to capacity development through training and mentorship.

Anne represents South Africa on the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management (SCADM), for which she is also a Joint Deputy Chief Officer. She serves on the South African National Committee (SANC) for SCAR as the SCADM representative. Anne is on the working group to compile a proposal for an Antarctic Treaty data policy, and was a member of a working group formed to align the data policies of international scientific bodies coordinating research in the polar regions on which the SCAR data policy was based.

She is a committee member on the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Data Management Sub Committee, a member of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and a member of SCAR’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) committee as part of the Code of Conduct action group. She is also serving her third term on the South African National Antarctic Programme’s (SANAP) Prince Edward Island Advisory Committee (PEIAC) and is a collaborator on the Antarctic Legacy of South Africa project (ALSA).