ESIP Update: Being in community 🌏

In the ESIP Update this week:

• ESIP Meeting Announcements
• ESIP News and Events
• Community Calendar
• Collaboration Areas
• What's Happening in Earth Science Data
• Job Opportunities

ESIP Meeting Announcements

ESIP Meeting Videos Are on YouTube

Catch the recordings of the 2023 July ESIP Meeting on our ESIP YouTube channel.

In addition, the ESIP Meeting Highlights Webinar is also live and the presentation slides can be found in the ESIP figshare along with many resources, posters, and slides from the meeting.

ESIP News and Events

Community Fellows 2024 Applications are Open

Help us spread the word! The application for the next cohort of ESIP Community Fellows are open and due by Oct 6. We also have a LinkedIn posting that we encourage you to share!

Learn more: esipfed.org/community-fellows

Collaboration Areas

The Semantic Harmonization Cluster Wants to Help You

The Semantic Harmonization Cluster made a survey to find out what kind of semantic-flavored training/capacity development they can offer the ESIP community. Help them plan by completing this Semantics Training Prioritization form.
 

IT&I Rants and Raves: Internet of Water

The IT&I committee provides a venue for a monthly community webinar on current Information Technology and Interoperability topics.

Next up is Kyle Onda from the Internet of Water, speaking to “Water data standardization: Navigating the AntiCommons.”

What's Happening in Earth Science Data

To Read…

• AI Could Reshape Climate Communication | Eos – Opinion
• Not Blowing Smoke: Howard University Researchers Highlight Earth Science Data Inequalities Amidst Canadian Wildfires | The Dig – Howard University
• NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring Instrument | NASA
• A new ethos for environmental data science: the Santa Barbara Charter | NCEAS | ESIP Partner National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) leads the Santa Barbara Charter, which the ESIP Partner Assembly endorsed in July

Tune in…

California Water Data Summit (Sept 7-8)

Join the California Water Data Consortium at the CA Water Data Summit on Sept. 7–8 at Stanford University. Tara Moran, Consortium CEO, will be moderating a panel on Tools and Science for Sustainable Groundwater Management.
 

Jumpstart Your Sustainability Plan (due Sept 8, Sept 12-14)

Jumpstart offers practical and effective steps for developing a sustainability strategy. This free mini-course offers research professionals, PIs of research and teaching-focused gateways, and project teams the perfect way to kick off sustainability planning, from new grants to mature projects. Apply by Sept 8 for the mini-course Sept 12-14.
 

Check Out…

Applications for the Philip Lee Phillips Society Fellowships (Sept 15)

Conduct research at the Library of Congress in the largest and most comprehensive cartographic collection in the world. The eight-week residency includes an $11,500 stipend with the possibility of an additional $2,000 honorarium for a lecture and publication. Apply by September 15.
 

2024 NCEAS Environmental Data Science Summit Application

The second Environmental Data Science (EDS) Summit takes place in Santa Barbara on Feb 6-7, 2024 to discuss communication and translation of environmental data to broad and diverse audiences. Applications to attend the EDS are now open and selected participants (about 100 people) will be notified this fall. There is funding to cover full travel for up to 60 individuals. Learn more through the UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) website.
 

Living Planet Fellowship call for proposals (Oct 27)

A new fellowship supports the new generation of scientists in European Space Agency (ESA) Member States to undertake cutting-edge research in Earth Observation and Earth System Science, maximise the scientific impact of ESA missions and European EO capacity and respond to the main challenges of the ESA science strategy. With this call ESA plans to support a new set of research post-doctoral positions to be co-funded by ESA.