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 Chris Beltz | Feb 25, 2016 | Student 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 | Student 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, Student 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 | Student 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, Student 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 | Student 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...
by Sam Silva | Feb 1, 2016 | Student Fellow Blog
Hello World! My name is Sam Silva, and I am a new ESIP student fellow. I work as a PhD student at MIT in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics working with Colette Heald. I’m currently trying to understand interactions between the biosphere and the chemical composition of...
by Sophie Hou | Nov 30, 2015 | Collaboration Updates, Student Fellow Blog
Being the student fellow this year for the Data Stewardship Committee has been an amazing learning experience for me. Through working with the Committee, not only did I get to know more Committee members and learn more about the Committee’s key collaborative areas,...
by Sean Barberie | Oct 29, 2015 | Student Fellow Blog
There's an old saying that when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I know, it's cliched and painfully overused, but stay with me here. In the world of working with scientific data, and processing data using a computer and a programming...
by Lindsay Barbieri | Oct 21, 2015 | Student Fellow Blog
Flinging a small fixed-wing drone into the crisp morning air to monitor an agricultural field, the whine of the propellers gives way to a burst of radio chatter. I direct my small undergraduate team to measure greenhouse gas emissions in the field while keeping an eye...
