by Annie Burgess | Jan 21, 2016 | ESIP Interviews
Denise Hills is Director of the Energy Investigations Program at the Geological Survey of Alabama. Denise earned a B.S. in geology from the College of William and Mary, and an M.S. in geology and geophysics from the University of Delaware. She then spent five years in...
by ESIP Comunication | Jan 13, 2016 | ESIP Interviews
The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) elected new leadership at its January 2016 meeting. Emily Law, who serves as the Data Systems and Technology Deputy Program Manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was elected President. Emily has...
by Annie Burgess | Oct 16, 2015 | ESIP Interviews
Chuck Meertens is the director of Geodetic Data Services at UNAVCO, a non-profit university-governed consortium that facilitates geoscience research and education using geodesy, the study of Earth’s shape, gravity field and rotation. Chuck studied geophysics at the...
by Annie Burgess | Jun 10, 2015 | ESIP Interviews
ESIP thanks Dr. Wenyu Gong for taking the time to answer some questions about her career path, current research with synthetic aperture radar data at the Alaska Satellite Facility, software challenges and her work in the wake of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake.
by Annie Burgess | Oct 23, 2014 | ESIP Interviews
Simon Hodson is Executive Director of CODATA http://www.codata.org, an organisation formed in 1966, whose mission is to strengthen international science for the benefit of society by promoting improved scientific and technical data management and use. He also sits on...
by Erin Robinson | Jun 18, 2014 | ESIP Interviews
Ist shared on opensource.com: http://opensource.com/life/14/6/can-we-make-research-more-web Kaitlin Thaney is the Director of Mozilla’s Science Lab and an open science advocate. Her work in this space began with John Wilbanks building the science wing of Creative...
by Erin Robinson | Jan 22, 2014 | ESIP Interviews
This is the second installment in the ESIP Innovator series. This interview is with Roberto De Almeida, PyDap creator and recently, Ocean Data Engineer at MarinExplore. Rob's background is as a Ph.D. oceanographer and climate scientist, but he became a tool developer...
by Erin Robinson | Nov 20, 2013 | ESIP Interviews
Today is the Boulder Earth And Space Science Informatics Group's book launch event for Andrew Collette, a research scientist at the University of Colorado-Boulder, creator of H5Py and most recently the author of a new book, “Python and HDF5: Unlocking Scientific...