ESIP Student Fellows are graduate students interested in bridging the gap between informatics and Earth Science.
This is their space to post on topics related to their own research and how it relates to their involvement with ESIP.
by Connor Scully-Allison | Jul 5, 2018 | Student Fellow Blog
I’ll never forget how it felt in the first few months working at the Nevada Research Data Center (NRDC). As a newly minted master’s student with only a minor in my chosen field of computer science I was all but certain that I was there by mistake. I barely knew C++,...
by Matt Bartos | Jun 17, 2018 | Student Fellow Blog
Why metamojis? Data flags are commonly used throughout the earth sciences to communicate data quality and provide other helpful information to users. SeaDataNet, for instance, uses numeric codes to convey information about data quality: 0 – No QC 1 – Good...
by Matt Bartos | May 14, 2018 | Student Fellow Blog
Hey ESIP! I wanted to share a pet project of mine that could be useful for those of you who work with GIS data (and especially for those of you who work with water data of any kind). Pysheds is an open-source library designed to help with processing of digital...
by Matt Bartos | Feb 24, 2018 | Student Fellow Blog
Hey ESIP, This blog post gives an update on my FUNding Friday project: a proof-of-concept platform for automated sensor firmware generation. The results of the project are available on Github. Note that development is still ongoing 🙂 Project overview This project aims...
by Matt Bartos | Dec 24, 2017 | Student Fellow Blog
Overview This tutorial will demonstrate how to program an embedded device to read data from an analog sensor. We will cover some of the basics of analog sensing, such as analog-to-digital conversion, as well as the nuts-and-bolts of programming an embedded device....
by Johanna Bozuwa | Sep 28, 2017 | Student Fellow Blog
Harvey. Unrelenting floods hit Houston. Irma. Winds lash throughout the Florida Keys. Maria. 100% of Puerto Rico loses power. This year’s hurricane season has left a wake of destruction in its path. It has displaced many, ruined livelihoods for others, and left...
by Johanna Bozuwa | Sep 5, 2017 | Student Fellow Blog
“We’re going to let the beasts out of their cages. You, me, all of us. We’re going to change the world by putting the power of networks back in the hands of everyone. The tide of technology has turned away from centralization. It’s picking up momentum in the opposite...
by Ryan Crumley | Jun 27, 2017 | Student Fellow Blog
My name is Ryan Crumley and I’m the ESIP student fellow for Cloud Computing. My academic experience began as a geographer, and now I’m a primarily a hydrologist and modeler interested in cryospheric processes and climate change. As a part of my Ph.D. research over the...
by Mingshu Wang | May 2, 2017 | Student Fellow Blog
Today, I’m going to interview Dr. David Cotten (dcotte1@uga.edu), an Assistant Research Scientist in the Center for Geospatial Research in UGA’s Geography Department. He is also the Lab Supervisor at the Small Satellite Research Lab (SSRL,...
by Yongyao Jiang | Apr 14, 2017 | Student Fellow Blog
Hello World! Today, I’m going to talk about the MUDROD project, which I believe has connected at least three ESIP clusters, including Semantics, Data Discovery, and Analytics. As this is my first blog, I would like to start with a brief introduction to myself. I am a...
