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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Civic Science can mobilize millions of participants to collect valuable observations that can support and enhance more traditional research and education activities and build motivated communities. Smartphone and AI technologies are revolutionizing the quantity and quality of observations that can be contributed to what, in some cases, are global databases. We will briefly overview Civic Science and then take a deeper dive into the iNaturalist biodiversity project, which harnesses tens of thousands of users and houses over 190 million global observations. iNat data have been cited in many dozens of peer-reviewed papers and have generated significant insights into life on our planet.
Value to Session Participants: Greater awareness of Civic Science broadly and some major CS initiatives relevant to earth science, and desire to explore work in this arena.
Recommended Ways to Prepare: Participants are encouraged to take a look at iNaturalist.org plus a resources document we plan to upload in advance of the session
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 →
Friday January 24, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Room 4
This session will present a new proposed ESIP Collaboration Area, GeoData 4 Health, gauge interest in this new area, and gather community goals. Organizers will present a preliminary vision for GeoData 4 Health and then lead a facilitated exercise to gather feedback from participants.
Value to Session Participants: The session participants will gain value by cross-discipline dialogue and learning about the unique aspects of patient data. They will also learn about and have the opportunity to mold a new collaboration area.
Recommended Ways to Prepare: No prep needed - just enthusiasm for environmental health!
Building on the Indigenous Data FUNding Friday project we plan to present on the methods and questions around indigenous data management needs with focus groups of communities that interact with indigenous groups. These focus groups include state and federal agency members, researchers at academic institutions, and indigenous non-profits.
By conducting conversations with liaison groups that work with numerous tribes, to understand scientific data management and cyberinfrastructure needs within tribes in order to: - Helping tribes promote data sovereignty - Compile existing data management training materials including technologies used that may help address knowledge gaps. - Identify subjects that are lacking training materials so they can be developed by ESIP and/or other appropriate communities. - Identify and share educational pathways that data managers in the ESIP community have taken - Co-produce and share this information with tribes to help them better advocate for the cyberinfrastructure and funding necessary to advance their own data sovereignty.
Our goal with this session is to get feedback from the ESIP community including people of color, minority communities, and indigenous peoples before proceeding with the interviews.
Value to Session Participants: Being able to give feedback on the methods being proposed, connecting indigenous communities and voices with the session organizers so they can be heard through this project. Allowing the many voices in ESIP to be able to have a say in shaping the project and maximize the impact it has on indigenous communities. The session represents an opportunity for federal agencies to fulfill trust responsibility with indigenous communities.
Recommended Ways to Prepare: Participants can think about their interactions with tribal communities and thinking about the things they've seen. Thinking about their own skills and technologies they use and how to effectively transfer them is very helpful.
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 →
By training I am applied environmental ecologist, and am very interested in biological interactions in aquatic ecosystems. Currently, I work as a statewide data manager with the Idaho EPSCor GEM3 Project.
Supervisory Biologist, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Dr. Caleb Hickman holds a Ph.D. in Zoology with an emphasis in ecology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked at various universities, the Long Term Ecological Research network, and the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, gaining extensive experience with species across... Read More →
Introduce Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI) to the ESIP community and the initiatives TGI is running that are open to all researchers, government, industry, and academic institutions. These include the TGI Geospatial Innovation for Food Security Challenge that is open to all to participate in; the TGI monthly GeoAI working group that discussing running the Clay foundation model for others to develop applications on top and eventually the NASA / IBM foundational model within a cloud environment. As well as the TGI Spatial Humanities working group that meets regularly and always has a guest speaker and the AWS $1M credit challenge that will already be underway but we expect to build on this challenge to have more in the future. With a desire to support the ESIP federation and its members, TGI is inviting organizations and individuals to collaborate on initiatives and projects to develop, advance, and implement geospatial capabilities across domains, disciplines, and borders. Value to Session Participants: Understanding the organizations and members objectives and engaging with them to discover where we can support one another.
Recommended Ways to Prepare: No preparation required
