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