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

Using GitHub for Collaborative Review of the Biological Data Primer Guidelines

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

Room 6

The Biological Data Standards Cluster has created accompanying guidelines to the Biological Data Standards Primer that provide more context and details for data managers. The goal of these guidelines is to bridge the gap between the Primer and the full, lengthy standards documentation, by giving the information necessary to help data managers decide which standards should be used for the biological data they are working with. Currently these guides are stored in a repository in the ESIP GitHub. Interacting with, or contributing to, the GitHub repository might not be intuitive or standard practice for all users of the guidelines. In this session, we will introduce some GitHub basics for users, and using GitHub as a tool, we want to encourage the ESIP community to provide structured feedback and ensure the guidelines are accurate and aligned with current standards for biological data.

Value to Session Participants: For those newer to GitHub, this session will provide an environment to learn how to make a fork, submit a pull request, and submit issues.

Recommended Ways to Prepare: Review the Biological Data Standards Primer

Speakers

Kyla Richards

Physical Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey

Tim van der Stap

Scientific Data Specialist, Hakai Institute

Laura Brenskelle

Steve Formel

Tuesday January 21, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST
Room 6

Breakout, Breakout

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

1:30pm EST

Data Democracy: Empowering Everyone with Our Data, Tools, and Services (Part 2)

Wednesday January 22, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST

Room 6

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

Elsa Culler

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

Wednesday January 22, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Room 6

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Education, Science Communication
Other Keywords accessibility, community, data user, DEIJ, equity, open science
Session Level Some prior knowledge – the session will jump right into an intermediate level

4:00pm EST

Federal data strategies: How can Federal agencies harness partnerships and innovation to maximize the impact of Earth science data resources?

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

Room 6

This session will be a venue for federal agencies to share ideas for partnerships and innovative development approaches that maximize the impact of investments in Earth science data resources. A continuation of July 2023 and January 2024 sessions on Federal Data Strategies, it will feature federal agency presentations highlighting emerging opportunities for partnership and innovation, following by discussion on the ESIP theme of Innovation to Impact.

Topics to be addressed by a panel of Federal agency representatives will include:

• How do agency missions drive investments in Earth science data resources, and what are potential intersections?
• How can we improve coordination among agencies in terms of how we are investing in data management resources to maximize impact?
• What are innovative approaches to leverage existing Federal data investments to expand cross-sector impacts?

ESIP is a logical venue for agencies to come together, collaborate, and reduce duplication of effort in the prioritization of their Earth Science data investments.

Value to Session Participants: People with a role in federally supported resources for Earth science data will be able to see what other agencies are doing. Users of federal data will understand how agency activities will influence their access to the data.

Recommended Ways to Prepare: The materials from the previous sessions can be viewed. There are three previous sessions on Data Strategies and a compilation doc which we will compile in preparation.

Speakers

Leslie Hsu

physical scientist, U.S. Geological Survey

Coordinator of the USGS Community for Data Integration and member of the USGS Science Data Management branch.

Raleigh Martin

Program Director, National Science Foundation

Thursday January 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST
Room 6

Breakout, Breakout

Session Track Tags Data Stewardship, Federal agencies
Other Keywords data policy, data strategies, research science data, partnerships
Session Level Some prior knowledge – the session will jump right into an intermediate level