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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
Pickup Truck Coding & Agricultural Monitoring: Meet Lindsay Barbieri
Curled up in the driver's seat of a mud-layered pickup truck, I carefully tap out some final code adjustments on my laptop. The hum of the generator in the back drowns out the quiet air-gulping noises from our greenhouse gas analyzer beside it, so I keep a careful eye...
Hello World: Meet Sam Silva
Hello World! My name is Sam Silva, and I am a new ESIP student fellow. I work as a PhD student at MIT in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics working with Colette Heald. I’m currently trying to understand interactions between the biosphere and the chemical composition of...
ESIP Data Stewardship Committee Updates: End of Year Activities and Looking Forward to 2016
Being the student fellow this year for the Data Stewardship Committee has been an amazing learning experience for me. Through working with the Committee, not only did I get to know more Committee members and learn more about the Committee’s key collaborative areas,...
Learning to Use More Than a Hammer: A Review of the Software Carpentry Workshop
There's an old saying that when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I know, it's cliched and painfully overused, but stay with me here. In the world of working with scientific data, and processing data using a computer and a programming...
Agriculture, Climate and Water: Can Drones Help Us Make Better Management Decisions?
Flinging a small fixed-wing drone into the crisp morning air to monitor an agricultural field, the whine of the propellers gives way to a burst of radio chatter. I direct my small undergraduate team to measure greenhouse gas emissions in the field while keeping an eye...
ESIP Data Stewardship Committee Updates: The Student Fellow's Experience in Publishing an Article for the “Data Management Short Course for Scientists”
From 2011-2013, members of the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Data Stewardship Committee (the Committee) worked together to produce the “Data Management Short Course for Scientists” (Short Course). The current Short Course consists of 35 modules, organized...
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)