Researcher Spotlight
Jameson Mori
Jameson is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Wildlife Veterinary Epidemiology Lab at the Illinois Natural History Survey – Prairie Research Institute. They use statistics and modeling to better understand chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the wild white-tailed deer of Illinois and support management efforts.
What do you see as the primary benefit to you of archiving your data in a repository? What influenced your decision to deposit your data in the Illinois Data Bank?
Being able to archive my data in a repository allows me to make my data available to reviewers, readers, and collaborators in a way that is easy and stable. It also serves as an additional backup for my data should anything happen to my other means of saving files.
I chose to deposit my data in the Illinois Data Bank because all my research is conducted at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and fits well with the goal of the Data Bank.