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 Megan Carter | Sep 19, 2019 | Student Fellow Blog
ESIP Community Fellow and M.S. student, Alexis Garretson, reflects on the her summer fellowship with the Environmental Data Initiative, an ESIP Partner Organization, and how the Data-at-Risk Matrix in development by the ESIP Data Stewardship Committee aided her in...
by Annie Burgess | Aug 26, 2019 | Student Fellow Blog
ESIP Community Fellow and PhD student, Ellie Davis, reflects on the ESIP Summer Meeting. What do you think about when you read “Epic Fail”? I think of the many new television programs showing amateur bakers competing to make the perfect 10-tiered cake in 45 minutes...
by Megan Carter | Aug 16, 2019 | Student Fellow Blog
ESIP Community Fellow and PhD student, Ben Roberts-Pierel, shares some thoughts from the recent ESIP Summer Meeting. ESIP's 2019 year theme is “Data to Action: Increasing the Use and Value of Earth Science Data and Information.” Working on the ‘use and value’ of Earth...
by Megan Carter | Apr 25, 2019 | Student Fellow Blog
ESIP Community Fellow and PhD student, Patrick Chandler, describes his 2018 FUNding Friday Project. Overview: The implications of climate data are difficult to understand through a single X Y graph. If time is included as a displayed variable, graphs can show either...
by Megan Carter | Mar 22, 2019 | Student Fellow Blog
ESIP Community Fellow and M.S. student, Rose Borden, shares takeaways from the 2018 Data FAIR at AGU. ESIP hosted the 2018 Data FAIR at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting last December. The Data FAIR provides researchers with opportunities to engage...
by Megan Carter | Feb 1, 2019 | Collaboration Updates, Meeting News, Student Fellow Blog
ESIP Community Fellow and PhD student, Zachary Robbins, shares his takeaways from the 2019 ESIP Winter Meeting. During the opening plenary of the 2019 ESIP Winter Meeting, Dr. Lesley Wyborn described the Earth and Environmental Sciences as an orchestra, each section...
by Megan Carter | Jan 2, 2019 | Collaboration Updates, Student Fellow Blog
The call for 2019 ESIP Community Fellows attracted a number of very impressive applicants. Ultimately, we welcomed 10 fellows, including 2 returning fellows. The 2019 fellows have already assumed their roles of providing support for and participating in various 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...
