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

Plenary

Thursday January 23, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST

Plenary

Speakers

Kira Sullivan-Wiley

Susan Shingledecker

Executive Director, ESIP

Susan is Executive Director or ESIP, Earth Science Information Partners, a global community of Earth science data professionals who come together to find solutions and advance data management to enable and empower the use of data to solve some of our planet's greatest challenges... Read More →

Thursday January 23, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Plenary

Plenary, Plenary

12:30pm EST

Break

Thursday January 23, 2025 12:30pm - 1:30pm EST

TBA

Thursday January 23, 2025 12:30pm - 1:30pm EST
TBA

Break, Break

1:30pm EST

ML Model Share-a-thon With Garden

Thursday January 23, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST

Room 1

Share your trained models as cloud-executable functions with DOIs with the NSF Funded Garden Service. You can bring your models to the session and together we will package them up and publish them as hosted Python functions. The Garden platform makes it easy for other researchers to find, understand, and try out your models.

If you don’t have a model to share, feel free to stop by to learn how to use Garden to help make your research more FAIR.

Value to Session Participants: Researchers will be able to turn their trained models into citable research objects and extend the reach of their research by allowing others in the field to try the model out and possibly integrate them into their own work. Researchers will learn methods to most simply share their models and make them reusable by the community.

Recommended Ways to Prepare:
Gather up your trained models
Obtain a Hugging Face account

Speakers

Ben Galewsky

Sr. Research Software Engineer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Will Engler

Owen Price Skelly

Thursday January 23, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Room 1

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Machine Learning
Session Level Some prior knowledge – the session will jump right into an intermediate level

1:30pm EST

Operational Data Science for Wildfire Resilience

Thursday January 23, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST

Room 2

The ESIP Wildfire cluster would like to invite data practitioners that are working to create hazard mitigation activities that involve trusted data and AI that can be leveraged to inform communities and demonstrate best practices that are user centered. Wildfires can happen anywhere as we have seen in New Jersey and New York. We want to build situational awareness and collaboration opportunities with emerging and established organizations and people in the wildfire space. The conversation starts here and continues during our monthly meetings so we can bring Innovations to Impact.

This session will focus on innovative data services that are improving wildfire outcomes. Over the last decade there has been a significant investment in data products to support wildfire resilience efforts. Wildfire resilience is achieved through efficient actions in prefire hazard mitigation, incident response, and post fire environmental management. Each of these phases has a distinct set of user stories.There is a need to disseminate operational knowledge to broader communities of interest including fire practitioners and the public at large. Creating shared, actionable situational awareness based on trusted sources will help communities prepare for emerging fire management challenges.

Value to Session Participants: Session participants will get perspective on the user centered design approach that several leading wildfire decision support data services have taken.

Recommended Ways to Prepare:

Speakers

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 →

Yuhan "Douglas" Rao

Research Scientist, CISESS-NC/NOAA NCEI

I am currently a Research Scientist at North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, affiliated with NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. My current research at NCICS focuses on generating a blended near-surface air temperature dataset by integrating in situ measurements... Read More →

Tim Bailey

Thursday January 23, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Room 2

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Data Stewardship, Science Communication
Other Keywords Wildfire, Resilience, Adaptation
Session Level No prior knowledge or experience - the session skims the surface or is an introduction

1:30pm EST

Stories of governance and open science culture change in government

Thursday January 23, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST

Room 3

“The tech challenges are the easy part, it’s the people and culture part that are hard” - quote from many speakers at many past ESIP sessions.

This session will focus on a main story, GitHub Governance at NOAA Fisheries. We will hear from different people involved in this story, which involved finding each other, creating the luck, getting to the table, building the trust, and ultimately rolling out GitHub access for research staff across NOAA Fisheries. We will then have a structured discussion with participants to ask questions, share other stories, with an aim to help document this story as one that we can “fork” to new places and situations.

Value to Session Participants: Not feeling alone. Developing language and stories to point to to describe what is possible and how we can work to change hard things.

Recommended Ways to Prepare: https://nmfs-openscapes.github.io/#what-is-the-impact-of-this

Speakers

Eli Holmes

NMFS Open Science lead, NOAA Fisheries

I have been involved in the Open Science movement for many years. I am currently involved in activities for the 2023 Year of Open Science in my role as lead of NMFS Open Science, co-lead of the Inter-agency R User Group (federal agencies) and NMFS Openscapes. Since 2020, I have helped Openscapes lead Open Science team trainings at NOAA Fisheries across all our science centers and involving 300+ staff. Since 2018, I have also been involved in teaching data science in India with the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services... Read More →

Julia Lowndes

Lead, Openscapes

Dr. Julia Stewart Lowndes is Openscapes founding director and co-leads the NASA Openscapes project. I am a marine ecologist working at the intersection of actionable environmental science, data science, and open science, having earned my PhD from Stanford University in 2012 studying... Read More →

Thursday January 23, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Room 3

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Cloud Computing, Data Stewardship, Science Communication
Other Keywords movement building
Session Level No prior knowledge or experience - the session skims the surface or is an introduction

3:15pm EST

Coffee Break Networking

Thursday January 23, 2025 3:15pm - 3:45pm EST

Coffee Break

Thursday January 23, 2025 3:15pm - 3:45pm EST
Coffee Break

Networking, Networking

4:00pm EST

AI Agents and KG-Driven NSAI: Driving Innovation in Geoscience Data Analysis

Thursday January 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST

Room 4

This session explores AI applications in geoscience, focusing on automated data analysis workflows and deposit type classification techniques using NSAI guided by KGs. We will demonstrate how AI agents leverage open LLMs to perform mineral data analysis and showcase a neuro-symbolic approach that embeds knowledge graphs of deposit rules within neural networks to enhance mineral deposit classification accuracy.

Value to Session Participants: Participants will gain insights into scalable AI-driven workflows and the integration of NSAI guided by KGs to enhance geochemical-based deposit type classification, exploring practical applications for automating data analysis and enhancing classification in geoscience and beyond.

Recommended Ways to Prepare: We will provide a Jupyter Notebook demo for our audience to interact with.

Speakers

Jiyin Zhang

Research Assistant, University of Idaho

Xiaogang Ma

Weilin Chen

Thursday January 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST
Room 4

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Machine Learning
Other Keywords Large Language Model, Neuro-symbolic AI, mineral data analysis
Session Level Some prior knowledge AND a quick review of supporting materials before the session will be a sufficient orientation for novices to feel more comfortable in the session

4:00pm EST

Air Quality Information -- Innovations and Impacts

Thursday January 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST

Room 5

We will review recent advances in air quality sensing and modeling including satellites and low-cost sensors. We'll examine two use cases: 1) Using wildfire AQ data to avoid smoke exposures and 2) Putting AQ data to work to protect underserved communities. We will point participants to a draft action model and AQ information resources and solicit feedback.

Value to Session Participants: We hope participants will learn more about AQ data and feel inspired to pursue ways to harness the data for real-world human health impacts.

Recommended Ways to Prepare: Participants will be encouraged to review the recording of the 2024 Summer Meeting AQ session and additional resources to be provided.

Speakers

Steve Young

Senior business consultant, EPA (retired); Innovate Inc.

Steve is a retired 30+ year EPA employee. He specialized in information technology, management, and policy with a focus on leveraging new technologies to provide open, actionable information to the public. He also developed a sub- specialty in biodiversity informatics and played a... Read More →

Beth Huffer

Information Systems Engineer, Lingua Logica

Thursday January 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST
Room 5

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Air Quality
Other Keywords AQ, pollution, underserved communities, modeling
Session Level Some prior knowledge AND a quick review of supporting materials before the session will be a sufficient orientation for novices to feel more comfortable in the session

4:00pm EST

Federal data strategies: How can Federal agencies harness partnerships and innovation to maximize the impact of Earth science data resources?

Thursday January 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST

Room 6

This session will be a venue for federal agencies to share ideas for partnerships and innovative development approaches that maximize the impact of investments in Earth science data resources. A continuation of July 2023 and January 2024 sessions on Federal Data Strategies, it will feature federal agency presentations highlighting emerging opportunities for partnership and innovation, following by discussion on the ESIP theme of Innovation to Impact.

Topics to be addressed by a panel of Federal agency representatives will include:

• How do agency missions drive investments in Earth science data resources, and what are potential intersections?
• How can we improve coordination among agencies in terms of how we are investing in data management resources to maximize impact?
• What are innovative approaches to leverage existing Federal data investments to expand cross-sector impacts?

ESIP is a logical venue for agencies to come together, collaborate, and reduce duplication of effort in the prioritization of their Earth Science data investments.

Value to Session Participants: People with a role in federally supported resources for Earth science data will be able to see what other agencies are doing. Users of federal data will understand how agency activities will influence their access to the data.

Recommended Ways to Prepare: The materials from the previous sessions can be viewed. There are three previous sessions on Data Strategies and a compilation doc which we will compile in preparation.

Speakers

Leslie Hsu

physical scientist, U.S. Geological Survey

Coordinator of the USGS Community for Data Integration and member of the USGS Science Data Management branch.

Raleigh Martin

Program Director, National Science Foundation

Thursday January 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST
Room 6

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Data Stewardship, Federal agencies
Other Keywords data policy, data strategies, research science data, partnerships
Session Level Some prior knowledge – the session will jump right into an intermediate level