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

Submitted by administrator on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 15:10

The ESIP 2012 Winter Meeting planning is almost finished. The draft agenda is available on the wiki now. Thanks to all of the groups that worked with us to get the program together earlier. There are still a few spaces for breakout sessions, if you have last minute ideas. Meeting registration will go live tomorrow morning, however you can book your hotel rooms now.

In preparation for the Winter Meeting Business Meeting, ESIP Voting Reps, heads up on a vote that will be sent out in the next day or so on minor changes being proposed to the ESIP constitution and bylaws. 
New ESIP Awards: 
As part of Federation goals to better recognizing the tremendous effort our members put forth to forward the overall work this community does, the Partnership Committee has created two new awards: 
  1. President's Award - This award is proposed to honor an individual who has made the most significant contribution to the Federation in the previous year. This award will be given annually at the ESIP Winter Meeting. The awardee receives a plaque.
     
  2. ESIP of the Year - This award is to honor an ESIP partner organization that best exemplifies the Spirit of ESIP in one or more areas. This award will be given annually at the Winter Meeting. The member organization will receive a plaque.
We will be awarding these along with the Martha Maiden Award at the Winter Meeting. Nominations are due Dec. 1.
Around the Federation:
ESIP at:
- EarthCube Charrette and ESDSWG Meetings this week
- AGU - Data Management Short Course - Tuesday, Ignite@AGU, Wednesday Night 
 
Martha Maiden was interviewed on NASA's Earth Science Data Systems in the most recent International Innovation
 
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 conditions. The satellite data used may be from any Earth observation satellite, e.g., U.S. government, commercial, or foreign satellites. 
 
Recent Job Announcements from around ESIP:
Telecons - With NASA's ESDSWG Annual Meeting and NSF's EarthCube Charrette both happening, most calls originally scheduled for this week have been moved to next week.