September 27, 2022
A new field of science for global biodiversity
In November 2020, Tanya Berger-Wolf was new to Ohio State. She was leading the university’s computer modeling and analytics response to COVID-19 while also learning the ropes directing the Translational Data Analytics Institute. And she was being asked by colleagues across the United States to lead a proposal to the National Science Foundation to extract traits from images. It would eventually become a new field of science: imageomics.
“I had just said no to three other requests,” Berger-Wolf recalls. “But I had to say yes to this one. Imageomics is a culmination of many threads that I’ve been working on my entire career.”