Community Fellows
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The ESIP Community Fellows are graduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in bridging the gap between informatics and Earth science. Visit the Student Opportunities page to learn more about the fellowship and how to become a fellow. Visit the fellow blog to discover more about our current fellows and their research.

2019 Community Fellows (Upper Left: Zachary Robbins, Ben Roberts-Pierel, Rose Borden, Patrick Chandler, Lower Left: Ellie Davis, Yuhan Rao, Connor Scully-Allison, Katy Rico, Alexis Garretson, Daven Quinn)
Fellows Blog
ESIP Data Stewardship Committee Updates: Scientific Data Stewardship Maturity Matrix and Provenance and Context Content Standard
Introduction As part of the ESIP Data Stewardship Committee’s (the DS Committee) core collaboration areas, the DS Committee is focused on developing and fostering best practices that can help to ensure continued and reliable information content, quality,...
Daily Wind – Fox Peterson, Student Fellow
Daily Wind Aggregation How and what do we measure in the wind? Since 1972 at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, we’ve been collecting data about wind speed and direction. Over these years, the methods we’ve used have also changed with changes in technology and...
Beef Cattle and Biosecurity – there’s a lot going on!
As we begin to think about food security for the ESIP 2015 winter meeting, I wanted to take a moment to mention an aspect of this element of food security that while it does not often directly present the opportunity to use the geospatial climate data and services...
What is ACDD?
Attribute Conventions for Data Discovery (ACDD)… As a student fellow for the Documentation Cluster this term has been discussed regularly over the last few years. But what is ACDD? Why is it important? Why do we keep talking about it? These are all questions I have...
ESIP 2014 Summer Meeting – Recap and Resources
The 2014 ESIP Summer Meeting took place July 8-11 at the beautiful Copper Mountain Resort, located at an elevation of 9,700 ft. in Frisco, Colorado. The meeting, themed “Linking It Together: Sustainable Software Advancing Science Data and Services,” offered a...
Summer Meeting Recap: Definition of Sustainable Software
The ESIP 2014 summer meeting's theme was "Linking It Together: Sustainable Software Advancing Science Data and Services" From our view, a focus on software sustainability is meant to address challenges related to the development, deployment, and maintenance of...
Past Fellows
2019-2020 Fellows
- Kai Blumberg | Schema.org | U. of Arizona
- Eleanor Davis | Ag & Climate | U. of S. Carolina
- Alexis Garretson | Data Stewardship | Brigham Young U.
- Yuhan Rao | Machine Learning | U. of Maryland
- Blake Regalia | Semantic Technologies | U. of California Santa Barbara
- Zachary Robbins | Community Resilience | North Carolina State U.
- Ben Roberts-Pierel | ESIP Lab | Oregon State U.
2018-2019 Fellows
- Rose Borden | Information Quality | U. of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Patrick Chandler | CLEAN | U. of Colorado, Boulder
- Eleanor Davis | Ag & Climate | U. of S. Carolina
- Alexis Garretson | Data Stewardship | Brigham Young U.
- Daven Quinn | IT&I | Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
- Yuhan Rao | Machine Learning | U. of Maryland
- Zachary Robbins | Semantic Technologies | North Carolina State U.
- Ben Roberts-Pierel | ESIP Lab | Oregon State U.
- Katy Rico | Education Committee | U. of Michigan
- Connor Scully-Allison | Envirosensing | U. of Nevada, Reno
2017-2018 Fellows
- Matt Bartos, EnviroSensing (University of Michigan)
- Patrick Chandler, Education (University of Colorado, Boulder)
- Jessica Fayne, Disaster Lifecycle (University of California Los Angeles)
- Connor Scully-Allison, Usability (University of Nevada, Reno)
- Katie Siegner, Ag & Climate (Yale University)
- Ranalda Tsosie, Science Communication (University of Montana)
2017-2016 Fellows
- Johanna Bozuwa, Education (Universiteit Utrecht)
- Matt Bartos, EnviroSensing (University of Michigan)
- Yonyao Jiang, Data Discovery(George Mason University)
- Ryan Crumley, Cloud Computing (Oregon State University)
- Jamie Collins, Data Stewardship (University of Washington)
- Andrea Thomer, Semantic Technologies (University of Illinois)
- Mingshu Wang, Science Communication (University of Georgia)
2015-2016 Fellows
- Alison Adams, EnviroSensing (University of Vermont)
- Fei Hu, Cloud Computing (George Mason University)
- Sam Silva, Discovery (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Chris Beltz, Agriculture and Climate (University of Wyoming)
- Sophie Hou, Data Stewardship (University of Illinois)
- Sean Barberie, Disaster Lifecycle (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
- Lindsay Barbieri, Data Analytics (University of Vermont)
- Johanna Bozuwa, Education (Universiteit Utrecht)
2014-2015 Fellows
- Lindsay Barbieri, Agriculture and Climate (University of Vermont)
- Sean Barberie, Disaster Lifecycle (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
- Sophie Hou, Data Stewardship (University of Illinois)
- Fox Peterson, EnviroSensing (Oregon State University)
- Nic Weber, Science Software (University of Illinois)
- Brandon Whitehead, Semantic Web (University of Aukland)
2013-2014 Fellows
- Reid Boehm, Agriculture and Climate (University of Tennessee)
- Kevin Dobbs, Disaster Response (University of Kansas)
- Kelly Monteleone, Documentation (University of New Mexico Ph.D. 2013)
- Kyle Nelson, Education (University of Wisconsin)
- Sarah Ramdeen, Data Stewardship (University of North Carolina)
- Nic Weber, Science Software (University of Illinois)
2012-2013 Fellows
- Reid Boehm
- Cathy Vaughan
- Eric A. Sproles
- Brent Maddux
- Eric Rozell
- Ajinkya Kulkarni
- Angela Murillo
- Sarah Ramdeen
- Tommy Jasmin
- Kelly Monteleone
- Sarah Clark
2011-2012 Fellows
- Brent Maddux, Data Preservation and Stewardship (University of Wisconsin)
- Eric Rozell, Discovery (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
- Jesse Roberts, Education (University of Wisconsin)
- Oleg Aulov, Information Quality (University of Maryland)
- Tom Narock, Semantic Web (University of Maryland)
- Yasmin Zaerpoor, Energy and Climate (Columbia University)