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

A Town Hall with the new Data Sovereignty Cluster

Tuesday January 21, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST

Room 2

The Sustainable Data Management Cluster is transitioning into the Data Sovereignty Cluster following on the work of the past few years culminating in the recent CARE principles paper (https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2024-037). While the current Sustainable Data Management Cluster will go dormant the new Data Sovereignty Cluster is looking for new faces and ideas and would like to hear from you on your interests and questions related to data sovereignty.

Value to Session Participants: Awareness of the cluster, interest in potential paths by the Data Sovereignty Cluster

Recommended Ways to Prepare: Reading about data sovereignty/indigenous data, realizing that data sovereignty is not only indigenous data

Speakers

Carolina Berys-Gonzalez

Laura Brenskelle

Joseph Gum

Data Stewardship Coordinator, NSF NCAR

Tuesday January 21, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Room 2

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Data Stewardship
Session Level No prior knowledge or experience - the session skims the surface or is an introduction

11:00am EST

Data Democracy: Empowering Everyone with Our Data, Tools, and Services (Part 1)

Wednesday January 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST

Room 2

The goal is to create a more equitable and accessible Earth science data landscape. To achieve this, we should prioritize understanding the specific needs of diverse user communities, including non-traditional users. By building on successful programs like ESIIL and TOPST-SCHOOL and fostering collaboration among organizations, we can share best practices and resources for making Earth and Environmental Data Science (EDS) education more accessible. Additionally, developing targeted outreach strategies and providing accessible training and resources can prepare users to effectively work with Earth science data. Finally, designing data products and services with the end-user in mind can enhance user experience and drive greater impact.
In this engaging session, speakers will address the following:
1.) What are the needs that our non-super users have for accessing (and making action with) data?
2.) What current models are used to address these needs to help users access and use our data?
Together, we will discuss and brainstorm:
1.) What communities of potential users exist that we want to engage?
2.) How might we work together to leverage our assets to support these new users of our data?

Value to Session Participants: Goals of this session include:
-Increase participants’ understanding of the specific data skills, cultural contexts, and engagement strategies required to effectively reach diverse user communities.
-Provide opportunities for participants to learn of successful programs and initiatives that are empowering non-expert users to work with Earth science data.
-Help participants identify potential partners and collaborative opportunities for empowering users with our data.

Recommended Ways to Prepare:

Review the following resources:
https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/about/deia/unbound
https://ciesin-geospatial.github.io/TOPSTSCHOOL/
https://zenodo.org/communities/topstschool/
https://esiil.org/
https://earthlab.colorado.edu/

Speakers

Elizabeth Joyner

Community Coordinator, NASA GSFC/SSAI

Elizabeth Joyner joined the Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program Communications Team in 2022 as the Community Coordinator and works across the program to promote the use of NASA data and resources with end users. She previously served as the Senior Outreach Coordinator for NASA... Read More →

Kytt MacManus

Senior Systems Analyst, Columbia University

Developer of data sets and applications for NASA SEDAC and CIESIN at Columbia University. Adjunct Lecturer in GIS at Columbia College in the Sustainable Development Program. Interests in data informed decision-making and scientific computing.

Nathan Quarderer

Elsa Culler

Wednesday January 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Room 2

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Education, Science Communication
Other Keywords DEIJ, equity, accessibility, data user, community, open science
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

11:00am EST

Indigenous Data FUNding Friday Project

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

Room 2

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.

Speakers

Joseph Gum

Data Stewardship Coordinator, NSF NCAR

Laura Brenskelle

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 →

Carolina Berys

Data Manager, CCHDO/SIO/UCSD

Andrew Child

Data Manager, University of Idaho

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.

Caleb Hickman

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 →

Cindy Garcia

Friday January 24, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Room 2

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Data Stewardship, Education, Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Session Level No prior knowledge or experience - the session skims the surface or is an introduction