Stahlman, Gretchen

Stahlman, Gretchen –

Gretchen Stahlman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at Florida State University. She previously served as Assistant Professor of Library & Information Science at Rutgers University. Gretchen earned her Ph.D. degree from the University of Arizona School of Information in 2020. Her current research interests broadly include scholarly and science communication, scientific information lifecycles, and the sociotechnical systems supporting research infrastructures, resources, and data management. The overall purpose of Gretchen’s present and future work is to inform open science and scholarly communication initiatives, as well as development of methods, services, and infrastructures for long-term information management and responsible data science. With more than 10 years of prior professional experience related to librarianship and information management, she has also worked in an academic library, and as a documentation specialist for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope construction project.

Research Interests

Data curation; scholarly and science communication; knowledge organization; science studies; human information behavior

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AARO and AUI Engage Academia in UAP Symposium

Organizers Dr. Tim Spuck of AUI and Dr. Gretchen Stahlman of Florida State University (who also co-organized the previous AUI conference) emphasized the role of private NGOs in shaping the field, with Spuck observing, “I think we are fighting years of secrecy, misinformation, disinformation and a lack of trust between stakeholders. We did not get here overnight, and it will take time, patience, and resources from all sides to build trust and confidence in our relationships.”

Stahlman added, “We wanted to ensure a productive mix of expertise and representation of UAP community organizations. We focused on recruiting civilian and government experts working in overlapping areas: AI and machine learning; UAP research and data; physical and natural sciences; information and data science; archives and records; analysis methods; cyberinfrastructure and computation; and human and social sciences.”

. . . Stahlman moderated a panel featuring Focke on “Harmonizing Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives,” where participants argued that integrating testimony with sensor data would likely yield unrecognized clues. Stahlman said, “Working with text data is a challenge across disciplines, and we were able to connect UAP researchers with non-UAP experts to discuss techniques, methods and technologies that can be leveraged to extract meaningful knowledge from diverse UAP reports and data sources.”