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