by Alison Adams | May 9, 2016 | Community Fellow Blog
How has the composition of forests in Vermont changed over the past 30 years, and how will it change in the next 30? Can we detect these changes using Landsat imagery? And if we can, what implications does this have for land cover change analyses worldwide? UVM...
by Johanna Bozuwa | May 2, 2016 | Community Fellow Blog
As a Masters student studying Sustainable Business and Innovation, I tend to have more of a policy and social sciences perspective compared to my other student fellows. I see this as a complement to their important work. Many of those engaged with ESIP are interested...
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...
