Item talk:Q54313

usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T17:18:24.690697'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/dalia-e-varanka
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations: []
   education: []
   email: dvaranka@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - Map Semantics
   - Geospatial Semantic Technology
   - Geographic Ontology
   - Geospatial Semantics
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - Dr. Varanka, Research Physical Scientist, leads the Geospatial Semantics and
     Ontology project of the Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science.
   name: Dalia E Varanka, PhD
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0003-2857-9600
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/cegis
   organization_name: Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS)
   personal_statement: Dr. Varanka was a research assistant at The Field Museum of
     Natural History and later at The Newberry Library in Chicago. She started her
     Federal career at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in 1993 and has been a
     Research Grade Evaluation (RGE) scientist since 1998 with the USGS National
     Geospatial Program. Dr. Varanka taught Geospatial Ontology and Semantics at
     Johns Hopkins University and is Chair of the Commission on Geospatial Semantics
     of the International Cartographic Association.
   professional_experience: []
   title: Research Physical Scientist