ESIP Staff
Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit supported by NASA, NOAA, USGS and 130+ member organizations.
Susan Shingledecker
Executive Director
Patty Allen
Operations Director
Annie Burgess
Lab Director
Allison Mills
Communications Manager
Megan Carter
Community Director
Lindsay Barbieri
Agriculture & Climate Fellow
Board of Directors & Program Committee
ESIP elects its officers, representatives, and committee chairs prior to the Annual Partner Assembly Meeting during the ESIP January Meeting. The Board meets quarterly to govern ESIP.
The ESIP Program Committee meets monthly to guide ESIP programs and includes the President, Vice-President, and all the technical and administrative committee chairs.
Ken Casey
ESIP President
Deputy Chief of the Data Stewardship Division, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
Denise Hills
ESIP Vice President
Geoscientist, Geological Survey of Alabama
Bill Teng
Governance Committee Chair
Principal Scientist, NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC)
Brandon Whitehead
Semantic Technologies Committee Chair
Environmental Data Scientist, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
Carla McAuliffe
Education Committee Chair
Senior Curriculum Developer, TERC
Nancy Hoebelheinrich
At-Large Board Member 2-Year Term
Founder and Co-owner, Knowledge Motifs LLC
Mike Daniels
Partnership Committee Chair
Researcher, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Sarah Ramdeen
Nomination Committee Chair
Post Doctoral Research Scientist and curator for SESAR, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Lesley Wyborn
At-Large Board Members 2 Year Term
Faculty, Australian National University
Tracy Pilone
Finance Committee Chair
President, Element 84
Cynthia Parr
At-Large Board Members 2 Year Term
Acting Assistant Chief Data Officer, USDA Research, Education, and Economics (REE) Mission Area
Derek Masaki
Information Technology and Interoperability (IT&I) Committee Chair
Systems Development Branch Chief, USGS
Amber Budden
Data Stewardship Chair
Director of Learning and Outreach, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
Community Fellows
Each year, an outstanding group of early career researchers working on their graduate and post-doctoral studies supports different ESIP Clusters.
Qian Huang
Disaster Lifecycle Cluster
PhD Student, University of South Carolina
Jim Coll
Cloud Computing Cluster
PhD Candidate, University of Kansas
Sahara Ali
Air Quality Cluster
PhD Student, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Mike Mahoney
Machine Learning Cluster
PhD Student, State University of New York
Morgan Wofford
Community Resilience Cluster
PhD Student, University of Michigan
Daniel Segessenman
Data Stewardship Committee
PhD Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Megan Carter
Semantic Technologies Committee
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Michigan
Jake Gearon
Envirosensing Cluster
PhD Student, Indiana University