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.
Denise Hills
ESIP President
Geoscientist, Advanced Resources International

Yuhan (Douglas) Rao
ESIP Vice President
Research Scientist at North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies

Amber Budden
Governance Committee Chair
Associate University Librarian Digital Strategies

Leslie Hsu
Partnership Committee Chair
Physical Scientist; Coordinator, Community for Data Integration at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Alexis Garretson
Data Stewardship Chair
PhD Candidate at The Jackson Laboratory and Tufts; Data Scientist, Anecdata

Sarah Ramdeen
Nomination Committee Chair
Principal User Experience Researcher, Northup Grumman

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

Shelley Olds
Education Committee Chair
Science Education & Human Dimensions of Natural Hazards, EarthScope Consortium

Xioagang (Marshall) Ma
Semantic Technologies Committee Chair
Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Idaho

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

Kathe Todd-Brown
At-Large Board Members 2 Year Term
Assistant Professor at University of Florida

Ge Peng
At-Large Board Members 2 Year Term
Data Scientist, Earth System Science Center/NASA MSFC IMPACT, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Ruth Duerr
Finance Committee Chair
Researcher, Ronin Institute
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