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Monday Update: Visioneers Call Today | CollabArea Updates - Geospatial, Semantic Web, Partnership | News from Federation Partner


I know that no one is thinking about July this morning, but the ESIP Visioneers are meeting today at 2 PM EST. The goal of the Visioneers is to make the ESIP meetings the best, most productive, most memorable meetings on the planet. We will be discussing the theme of the July 17-20, 2012 meeting in Madison, WI and beyond. Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada): 1-877-668-4493 Ac...

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Monday Updates: Geospatial Cluster Call today | Meeting Survey reminder | Data Journalism award


Quick email because I'm in transit back from the Data Management Workshop at AMS (Thanks to Bob Cook and Ruth Duerr for a great...

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ESIP Updates: ESIP Assembly News | AGU Medal Nominations | EGU Abstract Submission


Very successful meeting last week! Thanks to all who participated. We have 7 new member organizations, a newly elected ESIP leadership...

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Monday Update: AGU | Winter Meeting | Award Nominations


I hope for those of you that celebrate Thanksgiving, you had a nice holiday weekend. As things quieted down last week, it gave me a chance to reflect on how thankful I am for the vibrant participation in the ESIP Federation. We couldn't do this without all of you :)  

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Monday Updates: New ESIP Award Nominations | Meeting Registration & Agenda | AGU Activities


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Call for Nominations for the 2011 NOAA David Johnson Award


The NOAA David Johnson Award is presented by the National Space Club at the annual Dr. Robert J. Goddard memorial Dinner.   The award was established in 1999 to honor the first Administrator of what was to become the NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service.  The award recognizes young professionals who have developed an innovative application of Earth observation satellite data (alone or in combination with non-satellite data) that is, or could be, used for operational purposes to assess and/or predict atmospheric, oceanic, or terrestrial...

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Monday Update: Winter Meeting 2012 | New ESIP Awards | Around the Federation


The ESIP 2012 Winter Meeting planning is almost finished. The ...

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EarthCube


This post was written by Carol Meyer, Executive Director of the Foundation for Earth Science

EarthCube. In the time I have been associated with the ESIP Federation, no new initiative has generated as much buzz across the community as NSF’s EarthCube initiative. EarthCube is an exciting concept that is contrary to the way NSF has ever done science before. The vision put forward by NSF for EarthCube aligns with the way ESIP members work through community-driven governance, distributed, service-oriented architecture and the balance between autonomous member...

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Meet the Student Fellows! Yasmin Zaerpoor (Columbia)


In the Spring of 2011, ESIP welcomed it's first class of Student Fellows. The Fellows support ESIP collaboration areas that align with their graduate school research interest as one way to gain 'real-world' experience. This series of posts will introduce you to the Fellows that you may meet on some of your...

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NASA: Earth Science Data Systems - An interview with Martha Maiden


NASA is at the forefront of providing Earth Observation data to researchers worldwide. International Innovation interviews Martha Maiden, Program Executive for Earth Science Data Systems, discussing how the unit’s activities still keep her interested after 20 years of service to the organisation.

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