Becca Bannon
Research Associate III

Becca is one of the newest members of the EDC.  She joined the lab in August 2006 after completing a Master’s of Science in Oceanography at the Graduate School of Oceanography at URI.  At the EDC, Becca mainly works on projects for the National Park Service as part of the NPS Field Technical Support Center.  Her duties with the FTSC include mapping, database management, writing metadata, and maintaining the FTSC website.  In Spring 2007, the EDC was awarded a CAP grant from the Federal Geographic Data Committee to train NPS staff in data documentation.  Becca will be training staff from several parks in the NPS New England Region to develop good metadata habits.  Becca’s M.S. thesis research explored the use of nitrogen stable isotopes as a monitoring tool in salt marsh ecosystems.  She graduated with a B.S. in Marine Biology from URI in 2003. 

When she’s not writing metadata, Becca enjoys fishing, hiking, horseback riding, playing the violin, exploring RI beaches and tide pools, and anything to do with boats.