ENVS Colloquium: From Microbes to Math - There Was Data Science
Join us on Zoom on February 8 for our Spring 2021 departmental colloquium series!
Dr. Ryan Bartelme is a Digital Agriculture Science Analyst and Data Science Instructor at CyVerse. He will discuss his journey into data science, and how environmental and agricultural research shapes his interest in data analysis. It started with leveraging basic statistics and has blossomed into a deep interest in mathematical modeling, machine learning, probabilistic networks, and artificial intelligence.
Dr. Bartelme is originally from the Upper Midwest, where he took an unexpected path into scientific research and data science. He completed his BS in Microbiology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 2009. Afterward, Dr. Bartelme spent time working odd jobs, as well as working as a research technician in the Biophysics Department at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Eventually, Dr. Bartelme found himself working at a commercial aquaponics company in Milwaukee, where he found himself asking his coworkers questions about the microbiome associated with these systems. While working at this company, Dr. Bartelme met his PhD committee members, who encouraged him to apply to the new University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences PhD program. Since then, Dr. Bartelme has published papers in the areas of aquaculture/aquaponics microbiology and process engineering. He moved to the University of Arizona in 2018, where he worked in Dr. Paul Carini's lab researching environmental stress response physiology in Actinobacteria. In 2020, Dr. Bartelme joined Dr. Bryan Heidorn's data science research group in the School of Information at the University of Arizona, and as of 2021 he is a staff member at CyVerse.
When
3 p.m. Feb. 8, 2021