ESIP Staff
Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
Susan Shingledecker
Executive Director
Annie Burgess
Lab Director
Megan Carter
Community Director
Patty Allen
Operations Director
Allison Mills
Communications Manager
Lindsay Barbieri
Agriculture & Climate Fellow
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
Derek Masaki
Information Technology and Interoperability (IT&I) Committee Chair
Systems Development Branch Chief, USGS
Carla McAuliffe
Education Committee Chair
Senior Curriculum Developer, TERC
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.
Sahara Ali
Air Quality Cluster
PhD Student, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Jake Gearon
Envirosensing Cluster
PhD Student, Indiana University
Sara Lafia
Semantic Technologies Committee
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Michigan
Jim Coll
Cloud Computing Cluster
PhD Candidate, University of Kansas
Qian Huang
Disaster Lifecycle Cluster
PhD Student, University of South Carolina
Daniel Segessenman
Data Stewardship Committee
PhD Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mike Mahoney
Machine Learning Cluster
PhD Student, State University of New York
Morgan Wofford
Community Resilience Cluster
PhD Student, University of Michigan