2025 January ESIP Meeting: Full Schedule

We are a home for Earth science data and computing professionals. Our sessions bring together the community for hands-on, interdisciplinary deep dives as we explore "Innovation to Impact" this year. Learn more about ESIP: esipfed.org

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11:00am EST

Data Democracy: Empowering Everyone with Our Data, Tools, and Services (Part 1)

Wednesday January 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST

Room 2

The goal is to create a more equitable and accessible Earth science data landscape. To achieve this, we should prioritize understanding the specific needs of diverse user communities, including non-traditional users. By building on successful programs like ESIIL and TOPST-SCHOOL and fostering collaboration among organizations, we can share best practices and resources for making Earth and Environmental Data Science (EDS) education more accessible. Additionally, developing targeted outreach strategies and providing accessible training and resources can prepare users to effectively work with Earth science data. Finally, designing data products and services with the end-user in mind can enhance user experience and drive greater impact.
In this engaging session, speakers will address the following:
1.) What are the needs that our non-super users have for accessing (and making action with) data?
2.) What current models are used to address these needs to help users access and use our data?
Together, we will discuss and brainstorm:
1.) What communities of potential users exist that we want to engage?
2.) How might we work together to leverage our assets to support these new users of our data?

Value to Session Participants: Goals of this session include:
-Increase participants’ understanding of the specific data skills, cultural contexts, and engagement strategies required to effectively reach diverse user communities.
-Provide opportunities for participants to learn of successful programs and initiatives that are empowering non-expert users to work with Earth science data.
-Help participants identify potential partners and collaborative opportunities for empowering users with our data.

Recommended Ways to Prepare:

Review the following resources:
https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/about/deia/unbound
https://ciesin-geospatial.github.io/TOPSTSCHOOL/
https://zenodo.org/communities/topstschool/
https://esiil.org/
https://earthlab.colorado.edu/

Speakers

Elizabeth Joyner

Community Coordinator, NASA GSFC/SSAI

Elizabeth Joyner joined the Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program Communications Team in 2022 as the Community Coordinator and works across the program to promote the use of NASA data and resources with end users. She previously served as the Senior Outreach Coordinator for NASA... Read More →

Kytt MacManus

Senior Systems Analyst, Columbia University

Developer of data sets and applications for NASA SEDAC and CIESIN at Columbia University. Adjunct Lecturer in GIS at Columbia College in the Sustainable Development Program. Interests in data informed decision-making and scientific computing.

Nathan Quarderer

Elsa Culler

Wednesday January 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Room 2

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Education, Science Communication
Other Keywords DEIJ, equity, accessibility, data user, community, open science
Session Level Some prior knowledge – the session will jump right into an intermediate level

11:00am EST

Exploring how updates and training could make Data Management Plans (DMPs) more impactful

Wednesday January 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST

Room 1

Speakers

Elisha Wood-Charlson

KBase User Engagement Lead, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Carolina Berys-Gonzalez

Rachael Blake

Joseph Gum

Data Stewardship Coordinator, NSF NCAR

Wednesday January 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Room 1

Breakout, Breakout

11:00am EST

Innovation to Impact | How Was Data Used During Hurricane Helene and the Devastating Appalachia Floods | Looking Back to Catapult Forward

Wednesday January 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST

Room 3

Speakers

Maggi Glasscoe

Dave Jones

CEO, StormCenter Communications

GeoCollaborate, is an SBIR Phase III technology (Yes, its a big deal) that enables real-time data access through web services, sharing and collaboration across multiple platforms. We call GeoCollaborate a 'Collaborative Common Operating Picture' that empowers decision making, situational... Read More →

Wednesday January 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Room 3

Breakout, Breakout

1:30pm EST

Cloudy with a Chance of Science: Exploring Innovations in Cloud-Native Geospatial Technologies

Wednesday January 22, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST

Room 4

Speakers

Aimee Barciauskas

Wednesday January 22, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Room 4

Breakout, Breakout

1:30pm EST

Data Democracy: Empowering Everyone with Our Data, Tools, and Services (Part 2)

Wednesday January 22, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST

Room 6

The goal is to create a more equitable and accessible Earth science data landscape. To achieve this, we should prioritize understanding the specific needs of diverse user communities, including non-traditional users. By building on successful programs like ESIIL and TOPST-SCHOOL and fostering collaboration among organizations, we can share best practices and resources for making Earth and Environmental Data Science (EDS) education more accessible. Additionally, developing targeted outreach strategies and providing accessible training and resources can prepare users to effectively work with Earth science data. Finally, designing data products and services with the end-user in mind can enhance user experience and drive greater impact.

In this engaging session, speakers will address the following:
1.) What are the needs that our non-super users have for accessing (and making action with) data?
2.) What current models are used to address these needs to help users access and use our data?
Together, we will discuss and brainstorm:
1.) What communities of potential users exist that we want to engage?
2.) How might we work together to leverage our assets to support these new users of our data?

Value to Session Participants: Goals of this session include:
-Increase participants’ understanding of the specific data skills, cultural contexts, and engagement strategies required to effectively reach diverse user communities.
-Provide opportunities for participants to learn of successful programs and initiatives that are empowering non-expert users to work with Earth science data.
-Help participants identify potential partners and collaborative opportunities for empowering users with our data.

Recommended Ways to Prepare:
Review the following resources:
https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/about/deia/unbound
https://ciesin-geospatial.github.io/TOPSTSCHOOL/
https://zenodo.org/communities/topstschool/
https://esiil.org/
https://earthlab.colorado.edu/

Speakers

Elsa Culler

Elizabeth Joyner

Community Coordinator, NASA GSFC/SSAI

Kytt MacManus

Senior Systems Analyst, Columbia University

Nathan Quarderer

Wednesday January 22, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Room 6

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Education, Science Communication
Other Keywords accessibility, community, data user, DEIJ, equity, open science
Session Level Some prior knowledge – the session will jump right into an intermediate level

1:30pm EST

Enabling Connections among Persistent Identifiers (PIDs)

Wednesday January 22, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST

Room 5

Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are being assigned to many types of entities in the research ecosystem, including for people, organizations, datasets, software, instruments, facilities, projects, samples, and others. As PIDs proliferate, new questions and challenges arise, including how to establish connections between PIDs for related resources. Examples of possible connections include how datasets and software are produced by people and organizations. Likewise, people use instruments and facilities, which use software and produce data. Similarly, organizations manage projects, data, facilities, and people. In short, the types of connections and relationships among PIDs range widely, and vary considerably depending on many factors.

This session will explore approaches to establishing, managing, and leveraging relationships among PIDs. The goal will be to facilitate discussion within the ESIP community about PID-to-PID relationships.

Speakers will include:

Matt Mayernik - NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Topic - Connecting datasets to underlying research resources like software, instruments, and facilities.

Ted Habermann - Metadata Game Changers
Topic - Describing relationships between PIDs via metadata.

Madison Langseth - US Geological Survey
Topic - USGS approach for leveraging people and organization identifiers in DOIs metadata.

Shelley Stall - American Geophysical Union
Topic - Update on work in the RDA Complex Citation group, which is working on recommendations for citing a large number of existing objects (e.g., datasets, software, or physical samples) in a way that allows credit for individual objects to be properly assigned.

Value to Session Participants: We hope that the participants will learn about new efforts to connect PIDs, and will get ideas about how they might pursue this work within their own organizations.

Recommended Ways to Prepare: Participants would benefit from reviewing the ESIP data citation guidelines if they are not familiar with this document.

Speakers

Matthew Mayernik

Project Scientist, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

Matt is a Project Scientist and Research Data Services Specialist in the NCAR/UCAR Library. His work is focused on research and service development related to research data curation. His research interests include metadata practices and standards, data curation education, data citation... Read More →

Ted Habermann

CTO, Metadata Game Changers

I am CTO of Metadata Game Changers (https://metadatagamechangers.com/) interested in metadata evaluation and improvement, repository re-curation, PIDs for everything...

Madison Langseth

Science Data Manager, U.S. Geological Survey

Madison develops tools and workflows to make the USGS data release process more efficient for researchers and data managers. She also promotes data management best practices through the USGS’s Community for Data Integration Data Management Working Group and the USGS Data Management... Read More →

Shelley Stall

Vice President, Open Science Leadership, American Geophysical Union

Shelley Stall is the Vice President of the American Geophysical Union’s Open Science Leadership Program. She works with AGU’s members, their organizations, and the broader research community to improve data and digital object practices with the ultimate goal of elevating how research... Read More →

Wednesday January 22, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Room 5

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Data Stewardship, Metadata
Session Level Some prior knowledge – the session will jump right into an intermediate level