Monday Update

• Winter Meeting - Theme and details on session abstract submission
• Call for Nominations for the 2012 Martha Maiden Award  
• News from Around the Federation -  (Student DataViz Challenge; Call for Nominations for ASPRS Outstanding Technical Achievement Award)

 

Winter Meeting

The ESIP Winter Meeting will be January 4-6, 2012 at the Renaissance DuPont Circle. Last week the Visioneers picked the theme: "Connections Through Collaboration: Engaging Community throughout the Data Life Cycle." 

 

This will be the first meeting that we will have a review panel for session selection. Submit your ideas using the Google form found on the website. The form is live now and will close, October 21. Priority will be given to groups that are collaborating across cluster areas. 

 

2012 Martha Maiden Award - Call for Nominations

Nominations are invited for the 4th annual Martha Maiden Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to the Earth Science Information Community. Established in 2009, to honor the many contributions made by Martha Maiden to the Earth science data & information community, this annual award provides recognition to a member of the ESIP Federation who has demonstrated long-standing service to the community. The Award is presented at the 2012 Winter ESIP Federation meeting in Washington, DC.

 

For a full description of the award, including instructions on how to make a nomination and for past winners, visit: http://esipfed.org/martha-maiden-award. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

 

News from around the Federation: 

 

From Steve Young, EPA - DataVisualization Student Challenge

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration/Bureau of Transportation Statistics is sponsoring a data visualization challenge to encourage students to create data visualization tools to help transportation decision makers.

All contestants who are citizens of the United States or permanent residents that are currently enrolled at an accredited public or private university or college, or community, junior or vocational college may enter.  The two best overall submissions will be honored at the 2012 Transportation Research Board’s 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, January 22-26, 2012.

Authorized travel expenses will be paid for one member of the winning submission to attend the conference and present their work. In addition, each of the two winning submissions will be awarded a $2,000 scholarship.  Entries are due by October 31, 2011. Please direct interested people to http://dataviz.challenge.gov for official rules and additional information. If you have any questions, please direct them to our challenge coordinator, Jenny Guarino <Jenny.Guarino@dot.gov> Include in the subject line: DataVisualization Student Challenge

 

 

From Bill Teng, NASA - Call for Nominations for ASPRS Outstanding Technical Achievement Award - November 1st

The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) is requesting nominations for the newly created ASPRS Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA).  The purpose of this Award is to recognize developers of breakthrough technology which causes major advances in the practice of photogrammetry, remote sensing or geographic information systems in the United States.  The Award is made solely to an individual or plurality of individuals jointly.  The Award is not made to companies, agencies, bureaus or associations.  However, their personnel are eligible as individuals to receive the Award.

Nominations must be submitted to the ASPRS OTAA Committee no later than November 1, 2011to be considered for this year’s award.  Self-nominations are allowed.  The achievement must be recent, but need not have occured within the year prior to the award as it is recognized that the significance of critical contributions may not immediately become evident. 

The OTAA Committee, a panel of judges composed of the ASPRS President and the Directors of the ASPRS technical Divisions, will convene to critique each nomination, with the final award winner to be determined by mid December.

Feel free to pass this notice along to others who might be interested in submitting nominations.For complete information on nomination requirements and the rating guidelines to be used by the judges, please go to http://www.asprs.org/Awards-and-Scholarships/Outstanding-Technical-Achievement-Award.html.

• The Moore Foundation is interested in ESIP community feedback on where to invest in data-intensive science.  This is the last week to contribute ideas and a great way to identify yourself to the Moore Foundation as an expert in the field. Moore will follow-up on helpful contributions. Contributions can be made by submitting a new idea or commenting on an idea already submitted. 
   
• The ESIP Federation selected four new member organizations: Arizona Geological Survey, Data Conservancy, Ozone and Atmospheric Quality Processing Team, Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) Network. 
   
• Products and Services Request For Proposals - Attached is the brief RFP describing the latest approved Testbed activities and providing an opportunity for ESIP members to propose to implement the functionality.  We hope to move the Testbed toward being a more robust and useful asset for the ESIP community so welcome everyone's participation. Information about current current Testbed activities is available at http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Testbed Contact: Ken Keiser (keiserk@uah.edu)

Telecons this week: IT & I (details), Wed, 2 pm EDT 

ESIP Student Fellows: This week I am excited to share the ESIP Student Fellowship application. ESIP Fellows will be graduate students or post docs with a research interest that aligns to one of the clusters, work groups or committees. If you have any feedback on the application, would like a student fellow for your group or know of students that would be ideal candidates please let me know!

 

Sally Ride Workshop Follow-up Webinar: Tonight, we are excited to host the Sally Ride Workshop Follow-up Webinar: Staying Connected to Climate Change  at 7 EST. Learn more about climate data resources during this 1-hour webinar featuring demonstrations of web-based activities and a peer-support network to keep current on tools to teach climate change science. The call will feature CIMSS, MyNASAData and the ESIP Teacher Wiki. 

Summer Meeting Highlight: Teacher Workshop 

With support from NOAA, the ESIP education committee will host regional science teachers at a workshop in conjunction with the ESIP summer meeting where they can learn about efforts to study and steward our planet.Educators can register for the event (and reserve a $200 stipend) by visiting http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/teacherworkshop/esip/

 

2. There were two notes this week about the Environmental Information Management 2011 Conferencecall for papers and birds of a feather. For details see the EIM website. 

 

3. Summer Meeting - If you have a technical workshop idea for the summer meeting please let Rahul Ramachandran (Ramachandran@ornl.gov) know as soon as possible. There is a wiki page for open meetings ideas as well. The Visioneers group is currently meeting every two weeks with the next call, next Monday at 2 EST. If you have ideas this is a great way to get them incorporated. 

 

4. Products and Services Committee has a new chair, Ken Keiser, UAH. Their first telecon this year will be this Wednesday, March 16 at 2pm EST. 

 

 

1. WebEx: ESIP is migrating from GoToMeeting to WebEx for audio and web conferencing. Be on the look out for new numbers for your usual telecons. 

 

2. Pasadena Dinner (2/25 or 2/26): Several ESIP-ers will be in Pasadena for the Sally Ride Workshopthis coming weekend. I was thinking it would be fun to meet up with those of you that live in the area for dinner. If you are in the area, here is a doodle poll to pick a night.  

 

3. ESIP is ... What is your 1-2 sentence description of ESIP? We are working on a booth and the designer threw this question out to me and I thought it would be good to get some community input.