Monday Update
Submitted by administrator on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 10:14
Hopefully, everyone made the "spring forward" this weekend. A few notes to get the week started:
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No Visioneers this week. We will re-convene next week.
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Submit Summer Meeting Sessions to the wiki: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Summer_2012_Meeting#Submit_a_Session Sessions that are cross collaboration area are encouraged, since we have the fortunate problem of many people being involved in multiple activities.
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Looking for 2012 ESIP Student Fellows! If you work with any graduate students or recent grads (less than 2 years out) that you would like to get more involved in ESIP activities, please pass this information on. Applicants must submit a cover letter indicating collab area preference and a current resume or CV by March 27. Thanks in advance for supporting this program and helping us engage more students!
Around the Federation:
Monday - P&S
Tuesday - Discovery
If you have things for next week's Monday update, get them to me by Sunday.
Submitted by administrator on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 14:01
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 Access code:928 802 435
News from Federation collaboration areas from the last week:
* The Partnership Committee met with the new members last week giving an abbreviated
ESIP 101.
News from Federation Partners:
Ignite@AGU videos are posted! Thanks to all of the presenters and to NASA Applied Sciences for editing the videos!
From CIESIN: Announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the 2012 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) produced by CIESIN and Yale University’s Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP), in collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy, identifies Switzerland as first in addressing pollution control and natural resource management challenges. Iraq is ranked last. The EPI has been produced every two years since 2006. The 2012 EPI ranks 132 countries, using 22 indicators in ten major policy categories including air and water pollution, climate change, boidiversity, and forest management. Data sets making up the EPI were contributed from the International Energy Agency, remote sensing research groups at Battelle and University of Maryland, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and other entities. To learn more, go to 2012 Environmental Performance Index.
Telecons (Check calendar for time and call-in details)
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* Monday: Visioneers
* Tuesday: Discovery Testbed , IT&I
* Thursday: Data Management Short Course
Housekeeping:
* A reminder that all list-serv sign-ups can be found on the
esipfed site. These links are where you can subscribe and unsubscribe.
* This email is weekly. If you have news you'd like included in this email, send it to me by Sunday evening.
Submitted by administrator on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 14:02
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 session!):
* Visioneers will meet to begin Summer 2012 planning, next Monday, 2 EST
All of the
ESIP Collaboration areas have hit the ground running since the ESIP meeting. Next week, I will send a more extensive
update of current activities and ways to participate in ESIP.
Submitted by administrator on Wed, 01/11/2012 - 07:48
Very successful meeting last week! Thanks to all who participated. We have 7 new member organizations, a newly elected ESIP leadership and the ESIP assembly adopted guidelines for Data Citation and Data Sharing Principles. They also created a new Data Stewardship committee, now chaired by Curt Tilmes.
A few meeting wrap-up links posted to the wiki:
News from around the Federation:
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AGU Medal Nomination opens Jan. 16 - The 2012 Union medals, awards, prize nominations begin on January 16, 2012 and the deadline for submission is set for March 16, 2012. See website for details. Note: ESIP co-sponsors the Charles S. Falkenberg Award to recognize a scientist under 45 years of age who has contributed to the quality of life, economic opportunities, and stewardship of the planet through the use of Earth science information and to the public awareness of the importance of understanding our planet.
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Reminder: Call for Abstracts EGU 2012- Deadline 2012-01-17. Below are a few sessions that have been promoted through the ESIP-All list:
Have a good week!
Erin
Submitted by administrator on Mon, 11/28/2011 - 10:14
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 :)
AGU is in less than two weeks. Last call to plug your event or session on the ESIP flyer. Send me 1-2 sentences. If you've already sent from a previous email, I've got those.
As a way to quantify the outcomes of the ESIP meetings, we worked with the Visioneers and many of the breakout session leads to develop goals for the meeting. If you have input please add/edit the
goals on the wiki.
New ESIP Awards: The Partnership Committee created two new ESIP awards to recognize outstanding contributions from our community - the President's Award and the ESIP of the Year. Anyone can nominate and we are accepting nominations through Dec. 1 using this form. If you have any questions feel free to email Carol or me.
Submitted by administrator on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 10:01
ESIP Award Nominations: As you know the Partnership Committee created two new ESIP awards to recognize outstanding contributions from our community - the President's Award and the ESIP of the Year. Anyone can nominate and we are accepting nominations through Dec. 1 using this form. If you have any questions feel free to email Carol or me.
2012 ESIP Winter Meeting: The
ESIP Winter Meeting is Jan. 4-6, 2012 at the Renaissance Hotel, DuPont Circle. The
meeting agenda is almost full. We have plenary talks confirmed by Tim Killeen, Assistant Director, Directorate for Geoscience, National Science Foundation and Adrian Gardner, CIO, NASA Goddard. There will also be a panel on cross-agency collaboration that is not quite finalized and time for an EarthCube debrief.
Meeting registration is open now with the early bird rate. Rates will go up Dec. 2. There is a small block of rooms reserved at the Renaissance available by requesting the ESIP Meeting rate. Rooms can be booked by phone or
online.
AGU 2011: As always lots going on this week. There will be a flyer of ESIP member sessions along with these events below on the ESSI table in the poster hall. As a heads up, here are a few to mark your calendar for:
Quick Links:
Submitted by administrator on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 14:10
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:
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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.
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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:
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.
Submitted by administrator on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 09:40
October is flying by! Here is the weekly update of what's going on around ESIP.
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ESIP is hosting an Ignite event at AGU, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 6-8pm, similar to the Summer Meeting Ignite (20 slides, 5 mins, auto advance - go!). Stay tuned for details will follow this week.
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Final week to submit ESIPFed Winter Meeting session abstracts. The theme of the meeting is "Connections Through Collaboration: Engaging Community Throughout the Data Life Cycle", so sessions that are connected to other groups you work with outside ESIP are welcome. Deadline for submission is Oct. 21. Winter Meeting registration will open next Monday.
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Martha Maiden Award Nomination Reminder - We are accepting nominations for the Martha Maiden Award. This award honors individuals who have demonstrated leadership, dedication and a collaborative spirit in advancing the field of Earth Science information. (Details).
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On the ESIPFed Blog last week:
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Telecons this week:
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Earth Science Collaboratory and Visioneers - Today
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Drupal Cluster w/ Drush presentation from Owen Barton, Drush maintainer - Wednesday
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Education - Thursday
Have a great week!
Submitted by administrator on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 10:48
Happy Columbus Day!
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11 more days to submit ESIPFed Winter Meeting session abstracts. The theme of the meeting is "Connections Through Collaboration: Engaging Community Throughout the Data Life Cycle", so sessions that are connected to other groups you work with outside ESIP are welcome. Deadline for submission is Oct. 21.
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The Discovery cluster wrote a white paper on the ESIP wiki for EarthCube titled: "A Light-Weight Approach to Data Discovery". If you support the ideas described in the paper, sign on the wiki page.
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On the ESIPFed Blog last week:
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Martha Maiden Award Nomination Reminder - We are accepting nominations for the Martha Maiden Award. This award honors individuals who have demonstrated leadership, dedication and a collaborative spirit in advancing the field of Earth Science information. (Details).
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Telecons this week:
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Discovery - Tues
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Preservation & Stewardship - Wed
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Air Quality, Data Management Short Course and Energy/Climate - Thurs
Submitted by administrator on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 09:42
Apologies for the delayed Monday Update. The big news in this update is to submit sessions for the ESIP Winter Meeting. Submissions are due Oct. 21, in order to set the agenda and allow time for meeting participants to make travel arrangements.There are two types of sessions breakouts and workshops.
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At workshops, participants have hands-on interaction, such as demonstrations of how skills or ideas can be practically applied.
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Breakout sessions are discussions or series of presentations on a specific topic or theme. Here is some guidance for breakout session leaders.
Meeting Details:
Theme: Connections Through Collaboration: Engaging Community Throughout the Data Life Cycle.
Date: Jan 4-6, 2012
Location: Renaissance Washington D.C. DuPont Circle Hotel
Early Registration will open October 24.
News from Around the Federation:
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Products and Services met yesterday (minutes)
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NOTE: No IQ call today
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IT& I - Rants and Raves, Wednesday w/ Subsetting via Open Search From Existing THREDDS Catalog Services, Jerry Pan and The EOSDIS Simple Subset Wizard, Chris Lynnes
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Decisions Cluster - Evaluation Workshop Planning, Wednesday;
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