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Ann Zimmerman is a research assistant professor in the School of Information. Her research interests include the design, use, and impact of cyberinfrastructure; the sharing and reuse of scientific data; and the effects of large-scale collaborations on science policy and research management. Prior to joining the School of Information, Zimmerman was a librarian for more than 15 years with federal natural resources agencies, including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service  and the U.S. Geological Survey . In this capacity, she worked with environmental scientists from a variety of fields, and these areas continue to be of special interest to her.
In 2005, Zimmerman was a member of the planning committee for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) . NEON is one of several U.S. environmental observing systems being planned to help predict and solve scientific grand challenges. Cyberinfrastructure will be an integral part of NEON -- connecting people to each other, to computational resources, to remote instrument and sensor networks, and to data. Zimmerman is also serving as a senior personnel member in the planning grant for the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network. She worked with LTER personnel to enhance collaboration across the 26 LTER sites and chaired the Governance Working Group for the planning process.
Zimmerman is a principal investigator (with Tom Finholt) on a National Science Foundation-funded study of TeraGrid , a centerpiece of U.S. cyberinfrastructure. TeraGrid is a cooperative project among 10 institutions to provide high-performance computers, data resources and tools, and sophisticated experimental facilities. She is also member of the research team for the National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics , a five-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health to develop conceptual models, computational infrastructure, and knowledge bases to better understand complex biomedical processes.
Zimmerman has studied distributed research collaborations across many disciplines as part of the Science of Collaboratories project. Along with Gary Olson and Nathan Bos, she is editing a book about the political, scientific, social, and technical issues that surround distributed and collaborative science. The book, which is tentatively titled Science on the Internet, is scheduled to be published by MIT Press in 2007.s
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