The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University located in Palisades, New York, is seeking a Senior Staff Associate I to process and curate data submitted to and compiled in the Astromaterials Data System operated by the Geoinformatics Research Group, including validation of data and metadata (quality assurance and quality control), ingestion of metadata into the AstroMat Data Catalog, maintenance of controlled vocabularies, licenses, repository certification, and user support.  Utilizes analytical skills to identify improvements to existing workflows, procedures, and policies for data acquisition and curation; streamlines and automates existing workflows; gathers requirements and writes up specifications for usability improvements to software tools for data entry to meet co