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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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

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