ESIP Staff

Susan Shingledecker
Executive Director

Annie Burgess
Lab Director

Patty Allen
Operations Director

Megan Carter
Community Director

Allison Mills
Communications Director
ESIP Board & 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

Amber Budden
Governance Committee Chair
Director of Learning and Outreach, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)

Felimon Gayanilo
Partnership Committee Chair
Enterprise IT Technologist, Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi

Lesley Wyborn
At-Large Board Members 2 Year Term
Faculty, Australian National University

Mike Daniels
At-Large Board Member 2-Year Term
Research Scholar, Ronin Institute

Sarah Ramdeen
Nomination Committee Chair
Post Doctoral Research Scientist and curator for SESAR, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

Dave Blodgett
Information Technology and Interoperability (IT&I) Committee Chair
EDGE Civil Engineer, USGS

Margaret Mooney
Education Committee Chair
Director of Education and Outreach, NOAA CIMSS

Cynthia Parr
At-Large Board Members 2 Year Term
Acting Assistant Chief Data Officer, USDA Research, Education, and Economics (REE) Mission Area

Steve Diggs
Data Stewardship Chair
Technical Director (CCHDO) / Data Management Team at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tracey Pilone
Finance Committee Chair
President, Element 84

Brandon Whitehead
Semantic Technologies Committee Chair
Environmental Data Scientist, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
ESIP Community Fellows
Each year, an outstanding group of early career researchers working on their graduate and post-doctoral studies supports different ESIP Clusters.
Sruti Modekurty
Community Resilience Cluster
Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters in Urban Climate and Sustainability

Mike Mahoney
Information Technology & Interoperability Committee
State University of New York

Chad Lanctot
Physical Samples Cluster
University of Tennessee

Kyla Richards
Biological Data Standards Cluster
Hawaii Pacific University

Jake Gearon
Envirosensing Cluster
Indiana University

Chhaya Kulkarni
Data Readiness Cluster
Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County

Daniel Segessenman
Data Stewardship Committee
George Mason University

Morgan Wofford
Open Science Cluster
University of Michigan