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

Championing User Needs during ESDIS Evolution

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

Room 3

NASA’s ESDIS program manages the Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs), data repositories that process, archive, document and distribute science data from NASA's past and current Earth-observing satellites and field measurement programs. Although DAACs have historically focused on the unique needs of their discipline communities, current efforts at ESDIS focus on providing the excellent level of service that DAACs provide to all users through enterprise and cross-DAAC collaborative efforts that will shape the evolution of a unified system that meets the needs of all users of NASA Earth observation data through shared standards, a shared website and common tools. While these efforts require engineering expertise, it is also important that the needs of science and applied science users are taken into account during development. This session will describe efforts currently underway at ESDIS to ensure that user needs and user experience are considered during ESDIS evolution while protecting both ESDIS’s high standards and the trust of the scientific community.

Value to Session Participants: We want participants to have a better idea of what is happening at ESDIS and how they might provide feedback.

Recommended Ways to Prepare: Look at the new Earthdata

Speakers

Ross Bagwell

Sandra Cosic

Danielle Golon

Jenny Hewson

Frank Lindsay

Sara Lubkin

Tammy Walker

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

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

Innovation to Impact | How Was Data Used During Hurricane Helene and the Devastating Appalachia Floods | Looking Back to Catapult Forward

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

Room 3

Speakers

Maggi Glasscoe

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 →

Wednesday January 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Room 3

Breakout, Breakout

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

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