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

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

11:00am EST

Introducing Taylor Geospatial Institute

Friday January 24, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST

Room 1

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

Speakers

Marge Cole

Rachel Opitz

Friday January 24, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Room 1

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, Food Security
Session Level No prior knowledge or experience - the session skims the surface or is an introduction