Matt is the Director of Informatics at NCEAS, the Director of the DataONE program, and the Principle Investigator for the NSF Arctic Data Center. His work focuses on environmental data science and cyberinfrastructure. Matt co-founded the KNB Data Repository, co-authored metadata specifications including the Ecological Metadata Language and the FGDC Biological Data Profile, and co-founded DataONE, a global federation of data repositories providing interoperable access to data about life on earth and the environment.