Congratulations to Dr Lesley Wyborn who has received the '2015 Outstanding Contributions in Geoinformatics' award from the Geological Society of America.

This prestigious award recognizes Lesley's tremendous impact across the geoscience and other scientific domains in Australia and around the world.

She has been hailed as "the most influential thought leader and practitioner in Australia in the field of cyber infrastructure".

Lesley's an Adjunct Fellow at NCI. She is currently working with the 10 Pbytes+ NCI National Research Data Collection hosted on the NCI National Environmental Research Data Interoperability Platform. Lesley also works with users to ensure their data collections can be programmatically accessed for next-generation interdisciplinary science.

More information about the award: http://www.geosociety.org/awards/15speeches/geoinfo.htm