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 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...
by Sophie Hou | Aug 6, 2015 | Collaboration Updates, Student Fellow Blog
From 2011-2013, members of the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Data Stewardship Committee (the Committee) worked together to produce the “Data Management Short Course for Scientists” (Short Course). The current Short Course consists of 35 modules, organized...
by Sophie Hou | Apr 28, 2015 | Collaboration Updates, Student Fellow Blog
Introduction As part of the ESIP Data Stewardship Committee’s (the DS Committee) core collaboration areas, the DS Committee is focused on developing and fostering best practices that can help to ensure continued and reliable information content, quality,...
by ESIP Comunication | Mar 12, 2015 | Student Fellow Blog
Daily Wind Aggregation How and what do we measure in the wind? Since 1972 at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, we’ve been collecting data about wind speed and direction. Over these years, the methods we’ve used have also changed with changes in technology and...
by ESIP Comunication | Oct 9, 2014 | Student Fellow Blog
As we begin to think about food security for the ESIP 2015 winter meeting, I wanted to take a moment to mention an aspect of this element of food security that while it does not often directly present the opportunity to use the geospatial climate data and services...
by ESIP Comunication | Sep 17, 2014 | Student Fellow Blog
Attribute Conventions for Data Discovery (ACDD)… As a student fellow for the Documentation Cluster this term has been discussed regularly over the last few years. But what is ACDD? Why is it important? Why do we keep talking about it? These are all questions I have...
