I'm a cloud data specialist, geochemist, educator and Fulbrighter

• 🔭 I’m currently working as a senior scientific data specialist, implementing and documenting cloud workflows for scientific analyses in the Queensland Environmental Science Data (QESD) Platform
• 🌱 I’m interested in building tools to modernise science workflows. I am also a reformed paleoenvironmental scientist and archaeologist
• 👐🏼 I believe in the power of education, diversity, equity, inclusion, knowledge sharing, and volunteering to build better societies
• 😄 Pronouns: she/her
• 🏡 I am a proud Costa Rican, from where I love the 🌳, 🏖️ , 🌋 and ☕

Personal website: https://mariarivera.netlify.app/

Experience:

• 2021 - Present: Senior Scientific Data Specialist, Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland Government, Australia
• 2021: Research assistant, Indigenous Education and Research Centre, James Cook University, Australia
• 2019 - 2021: Instructor and tutor, Master of Data Science, James Cook University, Australia
• 2021 - 2022: Training instructor, Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation, Australia
• 2017 - 2021: PhD Researcher, James Cook University, Australia
• 2018 - 2021: Indigenous Peer Assisted Learning Advisor, Indigenous Education and Research Centre, Australia
• 2016: Team Lead and Consultant, NASA DEVELOP Program, Athens, Georgia, United States
• 2015 - 2017: Researcher and Masters student, University of Georgia, United States
• 2012 - 2014: Research assistant, School of Anthropology, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica