A Home for EARTH SCIENCE DATA Professionals

ESIP is a nonprofit organization that provides a neutral space for exciting cross-domain collaborations. If you’re working to make Earth science data actionable, we’re your professional home.

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Bring your expertise to the table in whatever capacity you prefer: come to the next ESIP Meeting, join a collaboration area, or anything in between.

For quick answers to technical questions, join us on Slack!

Find a Collaboration Area

We have over 30 collaboration areas working in diverse domains to tackle common data challenges and opportunities. Anyone is welcome to join, so find your fit and get involved.

Check Out the ESIP Lab

The ESIP Lab provides microfunding for innovative Earth science technology research projects. Review our latest RFP and view funded projects.

Join Upcoming Events

From Collaboration Area telecons to twice-annual ESIP Meetings, our calendar is full of collaborative opportunities. Join us.

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Maybe you’ve heard ESIP dropped in casual conversation at EGU, AGU, or AMS. Or maybe you’ve heard about us through our primary funders: NOAA, NASA, and USGS.

But what is ESIP, exactly?

It’s simple: We’re a nonprofit that creates space for Earth scientists, researchers, data professionals, and other domain experts to come together. We provide the space, the support, and (for some projects) the funding.

What ultimately comes from these collaborations? That’s up to you, our community!

More About ESIP

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We welcome enthusiastic participation from anyone who’s leveraging Earth science data to tackle critical challenges, no matter which domain you work in.

ESIP is an organization of organizations, but you do not have to be a member of an ESIP Partner organization to participate in our activities. Please join us by:

Joining a Collaboration Area
Checking out our community calendar
Attending our next ESIP Meeting

To get in on the conversation happening right now, hop on over to Slack.

Get Involved

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Looking to collaborate with other organizations working toward your same goals? Join us as ESIP Partner.

We welcome applications from industry, government, academic, research and not-for-profit organizations. Partnership is free and gives you access to ESIP Lab funding, leadership positions, voting rights, and more.

Partner with Us

In Collaboration with 170+ Partners

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ESIP Collaboration Areas

ESIP is home to about 30 Collaboration Areas. Initiatives are authored and executed by participants, and anyone is welcome to join.

Sustainable Data Management

Disaster Lifecycle

Data Stewardship Committee

Soil Ontology and Informatics

EnviroSensing

Semantic Harmonization

Meetings Committee

Data Help Desk

Biological Data Standards

Physical Sample Curation

Machine Learning

Wildfire

Semantic Technologies Committee

Education Committee

Nominations Committee

Marine Data

Open Science

Coalition on Publishing Data (COPDESS)

Partnership Committee

Earth Comms

Governance Committee

Information Quality

Community Ontology Repository (COR)

Data Readiness

IT&I Committee

Council of Data Facilities (CDF)

Explore All

Meet the ESIP Community

“ESIP is a place where I find the community that I feel I belong to.”

Douglas Rao , Senior Research Scholar at North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, ESIP Board President 2025-2026 HOPE video

What I do: Repurpose neglected data to investigate how communities change over time, using a combination of genomics and Earth science methods.

Why I do it: Because I believe we have a responsibility to the public to maximize data use to understand the natural world and our place in it.

Alexis Garretson , 2023 Raskin Scholar

“With ESIP Lab funding, we transitioned a hydrologic modal from “research grade” to cloud-based operations for watersheds on three continents.”

Assistant Professor , Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University

“Come to ESIP to have the conversation you’ve always wanted to have about what you do.”

Steve Diggs , University of California Office of the Presiden. ESIP Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Justice (EDIJ) Chair HOPE Video

“The ESIP Student Fellowship has been an incredible experience. Being able to work with the ESIP Data Stewardship Committee and the ESIP community as a whole has allowed me to grow my science and data management skills and to make contribution to diverse data issues in a variety of settings. I really appreciate all the encouragement and collaborative opportunities that the fellowship has provided for us.”

Sophie Hou , Community Fellow

“We are developing a sensor network to calibrate hydrology altimetry data for airborne and satellite applications.”

PhD Candidate , Geography Department, UCLA

“I feel like I have a whole staff of 160 organizations out there that I can turn to and ask any questions.”

Dave Jones , StormCenter Communications, Inc. HOPE video

30

Collaboration Areas

$60K

in ESIP Lab microfunding each year

170+

ESIP Partners

80

Community-driven ESIP meeting sessions each year