by Fei Hu | Mar 21, 2016 | Collaboration Updates, Community Fellow Blog
Climate observations and model simulations are producing vast amounts of array-based spatiotemporal data. Efficient processing of these data is essential for assessing global challenges such as climate change, natural disasters, and diseases. This is challenging not...
by Alison Adams | Mar 18, 2016 | Community Fellow Blog
I recently traveled to Brazil as part of a course on agroecology. The class itself was part of a larger, multi-decade project to implement agroecological practices on farms in a rural area of Santa Catarina state called Santa Rosa de Lima. Due to the hilly terrain,...
by ESIP Comunication | Mar 10, 2016 | Collaboration Updates, Community Fellow Blog
This year, the 11th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC16) was held at the Mövenpick Hotel in Amsterdam. While the main events for the conference took place on Tuesday, February 23rd and Wednesday, February 24th, IDCC16 also offered several...
by Sean Barberie | Mar 4, 2016 | Community Fellow Blog
Okay, one more time, while the autopilot calibrates, let's do the math. If I let Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier do his magic and destroy my pixel values then I can get JPEGS at a cost of about 5-10 Megabytes each. But here we're doing change detection, so we need the...
by Chris Beltz | Feb 25, 2016 | Community Fellow Blog
Hello World! My name is Chris Beltz and I am a 2016 ESIP Student Fellow working with the Agriculture and Climate cluster. I am a second-year PhD student in Ecology at the University of Wyoming. Currently, I am focusing on the biogeochemistry of water-limited systems...
by Fei Hu | Feb 23, 2016 | Community Fellow Blog
Hello World! My name is Fei Hu, a second-year Ph.D. student at George Mason University. I’m interested in the spatiotemporal information, such as maps, trajectory data, social media data and satellite images. My undergraduate major was GIS. During that time, I...
by Sophie Hou | Feb 17, 2016 | Collaboration Updates, Community Fellow Blog
On Thursday, January 7th, 2016, the ESIP Data Stewardship Committee (the Committee) held its 2015 Report Out and 2016 Planning session as part of the ESIP Winter Meeting 2016. Although it was the first time in the recent years that the Committee combined the Report...
by Alison Adams | Feb 11, 2016 | Community Fellow Blog
I’m Alison, a second-year Master's student at the University of Vermont. I've always had an interest in visual representations–as an undergraduate at Yale I was an art history major, and upon transitioning my focus to environmental science I was quickly drawn to...
by Sophie Hou | Feb 11, 2016 | Collaboration Updates, Community Fellow Blog
As the returning student fellow from 2015 to the ESIP Data Stewardship Committee, I am very excited to have the opportunity to continue to work with the Committee and be able to contribute to its key collaborative areas in 2016. Particularly, since my academic program...
by Lindsay Barbieri | Feb 10, 2016 | Community Fellow Blog
Curled up in the driver's seat of a mud-layered pickup truck, I carefully tap out some final code adjustments on my laptop. The hum of the generator in the back drowns out the quiet air-gulping noises from our greenhouse gas analyzer beside it, so I keep a careful eye...
