Introducing FAIR Station’s Product Manager

Hello everyone! My name is Danny Brooke, and I’m excited to join UC3 as Product Manager for FAIR Station, a role hosted through Code for Science & Society. FAIR Station is a Moore Foundation-funded initiative that’s building open-source, interoperable infrastructure for field stations and marine laboratories. The project reimagines RAMS (a widely used field station reservation platform) as a strategic entry point into the research lifecycle, connecting fieldwork to the samples, datasets, and publications that result from it.

I’ve always felt most at home building tools for researchers to work with and share data. I previously worked on The Dataverse Project at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), where I had the opportunity to help build open-source data repository software alongside a large community of researchers, librarians, and developers from around the world. Since leaving Harvard, I’ve continued working at the intersection of large-scale data, research workflows, and platform development. This has included building data infrastructure supporting one of the world’s largest canine health and genetics datasets at Embark Veterinary and leading product and consulting work focused on implementing data pipelines and data collection tools that translate complex operational environments into reliable and useful infrastructure.

I’ve missed the opportunity to build products for researchers to connect and share data. I’m happy to be back.

Over the coming months, I’ll be spending time learning from field station and marine laboratory communities, understanding researcher workflows, growing a team, and helping shape the product direction for FAIR Station. I look forward to meeting many of you. Please feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn or at danny.brooke@ucop.edu.