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

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

4:00pm EST

Air Quality Information -- Innovations and Impacts

Thursday January 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST

Room 5

We will review recent advances in air quality sensing and modeling including satellites and low-cost sensors. We'll examine two use cases: 1) Using wildfire AQ data to avoid smoke exposures and 2) Putting AQ data to work to protect underserved communities. We will point participants to a draft action model and AQ information resources and solicit feedback.

Value to Session Participants: We hope participants will learn more about AQ data and feel inspired to pursue ways to harness the data for real-world human health impacts.

Recommended Ways to Prepare: Participants will be encouraged to review the recording of the 2024 Summer Meeting AQ session and additional resources to be provided.

Speakers

Steve Young

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 →

Beth Huffer

Information Systems Engineer, Lingua Logica

Thursday January 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST
Room 5

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Air Quality
Other Keywords AQ, pollution, underserved communities, modeling
Session Level Some prior knowledge AND a quick review of supporting materials before the session will be a sufficient orientation for novices to feel more comfortable in the session