Amber Budden
Amber Budden is the Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies at the University of California Santa Barbara. In this role she navigates the technical and cultural landscape surrounding research data management, digital and digitized content, data preservation, and library infrastructure. She holds a joint undergraduate degree in Zoology and Psychology, and a PhD in Behavioral Ecology. She engaged in ecological research and teaching at UC Berkeley, the University of Toronto, and York University before transitioning to the areas of open access and open data. More recently she is collaborating as part of the UC OPSO Network to provide services and structure for open source projects. Before taking the position of AUL for Digital Strategies, Amber led data science training for the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (UCSB) and co-lead DataONE and the Arctic Data Center, two organizations focussed on preservation, discovery, and access of research data. Amber is an open science facilitator, community manager and data literacy trainer. She also runs marathons. Slowly.