Board

Ken Casey is the Deputy Chief of the Data Stewardship Division in the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), part of the NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). Ken provides leadership and guidance to NCEI staff and sets the technical direction of division activities, projects, and programs. He coordinates across NCEI and with the broader community to promote NCEI as a responsible citizen of the global environmental data management community, leveraging from and contributing to relevant activities of that community. In collaboration with NOAA, national, and international partners he is helping NOAA to improve archive and access to NOAA’s complex, petabyte-scale data. 

Dr. Teng is a Principal Scientist at the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). He led its Science Support Group (contractors) for over 14 years. In coordination with NASA customers, he provides end-to-end, value-added support for NASA mission data sets and associated analysis tools. He specializes in managing large-scale science data systems and user-focused science support. 

Denise Hills is a geoscientist at the Geological Survey of Alabama, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She was trained as a marine geophysicist and is currently Director of the Energy Investigations program at the Survey. Her research, often federally funded, focuses on energy resource assessment. This includes traditional and unconventional hydrocarbon assessment, non-hydrocarbon geologic energy sources, and geologic carbon sequestration. She also leads much of the data rescue and data preservation efforts at the Survey, focusing on the geological cores collected throughout the state in relation to over 100 years of hydrocarbon research in the state. Denise enjoys helping people understand scientific research and its impact on their day to day life.

Tracey Pilone is President of Element 84, an ESIP member organization and software engineering business based in Alexandria, VA. Tracey previously served as the Chair of the Nominations Committee and sat on the ESIP board from 2015-2017, served on the Executive Director Search Committee in 2020, is a current member of the Meetings Committee, and has been a regular ESIP participant since 2014. As a small business owner and MBA graduate from Georgetown University, Tracey has extensive business expertise that will lend itself particularly well to the role of Treasurer.