ESIP Update: #EarthScienceData

Welcome to the ESIP Update. Thanks to everyone who joined the July meeting.

ESIP News and Events

Meeting Highlights Webinar

The ESIP community gathered virtually and in person last week. If you missed the meeting or want to hear about specific sessions, catch the ESIP Meeting Highlights Webinar on Wednesday, August 17 from 3-4:30 p.m. EDT.

From the future of open science to tutorials on Schema.org, AI-ready data, and PANGEO, the breakout sessions, workshops, and Unconference showcase community-driven innovation and collaboration. The three plenaries leaned into the gray spaces, ethics, and eye-opening challenges inherent in the theme “Data for All People.” Catch a recap of the 2022 July ESIP Meeting during the highlights webinar and and stay tuned for full recordings of our meeting sessions to be released on the ESIP YouTube Channel in early August.

New Blog – Trains, No Planes, and Fewer Automobiles

Participants in ESIP care about our meetings’ sustainability and impact. Through photos and short essays, several attendees of the 2022 July ESIP Meeting share why they chose alternative travel. Read the new post and more stories on esipfed.org/merge, ESIP's blog Merge.

“Data for All” T-shirt Fundraiser Open through Aug 10

ESIP's theme for 2022 is Data For All People. This fun t-shirt, designed by our friends at Element 84, showcases your work and style, plus it supports ESIP's mission at the same time.

The fundraiser closes Wednesday, Aug 10. There is a 21 order minimum and there will be full refunds if the goal is not reached. But we are very close!

Open call for proposals for AGU sessions (Due Aug 3)

Many ESIP participants plan and bring together 2022 AGU Fall Meeting sessions. To avoid an overload of individual messages, especially during the meeting, ESIP offers a summary of recommended sessions. The abstract submission deadline is August 3, 2021.

Please add to the the list and share your session on Twitter; tag @ESIPfed and we will make sure to reshare.

Collaboration Area Telecons

Here's what to expect this week:

Monday
- Schema.org (5 p.m. EDT)
Tuesday
- Agriculture and Climate (2 p.m. EDT)
- EDIJ Meeting (3 p.m. EDT)
- Envirosensing (5 p.m. EDT)
- COR (5 p.m. EDT)
Wednesday
- IM Code Registry (2 p.m. EDT)
- Soil Ontology and Informatics (7 p.m. EDT)
Thursday
- Biological Data Standards (2 p.m. EDT)
- Disaster Life Cycle (4 p.m. EDT)

See the full Community Calendar. Select the meeting you'd like to attend, login instructions are included in description. Please review and follow our community guidelines.

What's Happening in Earth Science Data

To read…

Once-ignored Indigenous knowledge of nature now shaping science (Minnesota Public Radio)
Sunset of EPA Digital Archive Threatens Public Access to Information (Perspective on History – American Historical Association)
What are you going to be when you grow up? (Eos Quiz)

Tune in…

4th NOAA Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences (Due Aug 5)

The interactive workshop will be a virtual event September 6-9 to build collaboration and initiate the active development of AI-powered applications and community standards.

We invite developers, data scientists, domain experts, social scientists, and downstream users to form small teams around different use cases that are relevant to three themes relevant to NOAA Mission Areas: Fire Weather and Impacts, AI for Ocean Conservation, and Interoperable Digital Twin Earth.

ISGEO-iHARP Workshop 2022 (Aug 15-19)

IS-GEO and iHARP (NSF HDR Institute for Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in the Polar Regions) are pleased to announce a virtual workshop with hands-on activities, presentations, and hack-a-thon on Model-based Reasoning for closer collaboration between Polar Scientists and Data Scientists and beyond. Register for the workshop running August 15-19 and check out the schedule.

Check Out…

International Workshop on Geospatial Knowledge Graphs

Geospatial Knowledge Graphs (GeoKG 2022) is a small workshop at 2022 ACM SIGSPATIAL in Seattle on November 1, 2022. The call for papers is open.

Gateways 2022 Poster and open Forum Submissions (Due Aug 8)

Gateways 2022 will take place October 18-20 in San Diego at Venue 808. Tutorials will be online two weeks before the conference.

Gateways 2022 is planned as an opportunity to highlight the opportunities for science gateways to teach, empower and engage research and technologies to various communities. It will offer diverse options for sharing work and networking in the community. The format includes tutorial sessions, presentations, panels, posters and demos, and an open forum. Submissions for posters and open forum are due on Monday, August 8.

Job Opportunities

Join ESIP Slack and check out the #job-opportunities channel.

You'll find positions like:

Computer Engineer, AST – Data Systems, NASA GSFC ESDIS, to develop, operate, and monitor the data system activities of the overarching Earth Observation System Data Information System (EOSDIS)
Multiple positions, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), from technicians to engineers to science communicators
Machine Learning (ML) Specialist, University of Washington eScience Institute, to contribute to the Institute’s growing opportunities for training and outreach, centered on ML methods
Assistant Professor of Remote Sensing, Montana State University, to research and teach relevant remote sensing and quantitative analysis as applied to agricultural, environmental, or natural resource issues
Postdoctoral Researcher, Experiential AI (EAI) Institute at Northeastern University, opportunity for ML/AI or data science PhDs interested in developing novel methodologies in relevant sciences and engineering domains, as well as scientists and engineers interested in developing ML/AI methods based on domain knowledge