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

4:00pm EST

Next Paper Idea for Realizing Practical Earth AI

Tuesday January 21, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST

Room 5

We will talk on a range of ideas centering on data, AI models, and AI product life cycles. We will determine what we should do next to help community realize practical, trustworthy, and ethical AI.

Value to Session Participants: Clear the mind on what AI projects should be carried out, participate to draft the community paper, be part of the big effort on navigating AI efforts in Earth Science Data community.

Recommended Ways to Prepare: Read the AI readiness checklist and the meeting notes of machine learning cluster.

Speakers

Ziheng Sun

Research Associate Prof, George Mason University

My research interests are mainly on geospatial cyberinfrastructure and machine learning in atmospheric and agricultural sciences.

Tuesday January 21, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST
Room 5

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Machine Learning, Metadata, Data Stewardship
Other Keywords Data Quality, AI Readiness
Session Level Some prior knowledge – the session will jump right into an intermediate level

4:00pm EST

State of ESDIS Search and Discovery Tools

Tuesday January 21, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST

Room 7

Summary of Search and Data Discovery Tools built by NASA ESDIS. We will be highlighting new and exciting features and sharing our thoughts for the future of our tools.

Sessions topics include STAC improvements and implementations in the Common Metadata Repository (CMR), Improvements to Keyword Management Systems, Earthdata Search new features, SNS Subscription Implementation in the CMR

Value to Session Participants: Participants will learn about new and existing capabilities of search and discovery tools. They will also have opportunities to provide feedback and insights on their experiences searching for data.

Recommended Ways to Prepare:

Speakers

Valerie Dixon

NASA/ESDIS, NASA/ESDIS

Oversees the operations, sustainment, and development efforts for Search and Discovery applications for NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) project. This includes the Common Metadata Repository (CMR), Unified Metadata Models (UMMs), Global Change Master Directory... Read More →

Pete Ingraham

Tuesday January 21, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST
Room 7

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Metadata, Data Discovery
Other Keywords Data Discovery
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

11:00am EST

GeoData 4 Health

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

Room 3

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!

Speakers

Anne Thessen

Charles Schmitt

Friday January 24, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Room 3

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Metadata, Semantics, Data integration
Other Keywords interdisciplinary, clinical informatics, geolocation
Session Level No prior knowledge or experience - the session skims the surface or is an introduction