ESIP Update: ESIP Summer recap and Fall preview

ESIP UPDATE: September 5, 2017
 

After a great Summer meeting and a quick August breather, ESIP is gearing up for a busy Fall and Winter!
ESIP is looking for new Student Fellows; ESIP Lab will soon be open for proposals; ESIP will be electing new leaders in the Fall; ESIP Winter Meeting call for sessions will be open soon (and also registration), and it’s not too early to start thinking about the big ESIP prizes: the Martha Maiden award, and the ESIP/AGU’s Falkenberg Award. It’s a good time for clusters to reignite their core conversations, so welcome back! HOP on Slack and keep learning and sharing. It’s the ESIP WAY!

Lots going on in and around ESIP this week! Keep up on all the action on Slack! If you are not already on the ESIP Slack team: here is your INVITATION.  If you are on Slack, are you using the Slack App? It's a much better GUI. Grab it HERE. 

The ESIP Board is happy to announce that Pat Reiff, long-time ESIPer, has won the best “my ESIP story” contest. With more than 40 entrants—and dozens of dynamite stories—it was really hard to make a final choice. Congrats to Pat, and many thanks to everyone who submitted a story and/or did a video. ESIP is sending Pat her DJI Phantom 3 drone, donated by DJI.

Federation News  

• Welcome New ESIP I: CDDIS
• ESIP is looking for Student Fellows—submit your application by October 6!
• Check out Summer Meeting content on Figshare

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Federation News

Welcome Our New Type I Member!
The Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS) is now an ESIP Type I member.
The CDDIS is NASA’s data archive and information service supporting the international space geodesy community. CDDIS is part of the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. CDDIS serves as one of the core components for the geometric services established under the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), an organization that promotes scientific cooperation and research in geodesy on a global scale. The CDDIS was established in 1982 as a dedicated data bank to archive and distribute space geodesy related data sets.

Time to apply to become an ESIP Student Fellow!
The Call for 2017 Student Fellows is now OPEN!  Applications will close October 6, 2017, so please get yours in today, or get this link to others you think should apply.

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NOTE: Job Opportunities are now listed on the ESIP Slack Job-Opportunities Slack Channel <https://esip-all.slack.com/messages/C4MMH7R8Q/>.  You can post and find jobs there. If you are not yet on the ESIP Slack team, use the invite (above) to join.

EPA’s Smart City Air Webinar – Data Use in Community Air Quality Projects!
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is conducting a webinar entitled “U.S. EPA: Smart City Air Challenge Webinar – Data Use in Community Air Quality Projects.” It will be held on September 14, 2017, at 12 p.m., EDT. Tune in as our speakers describe how they use data from air quality sensors to understand local environmental conditions. This webinar is one in a series of webinars to help communities manage data from air quality projects. The webinars are keeping up the momentum of the Smart City Air Challenge, which encourages communities to deploy hundreds of air quality sensors and make the resulting data open to the public. Register for the webinar today. Learn more about the Smart City Air Challenge.

Symposium on Toward an Open Science Enterprise: Focus on Stakeholders
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) is pleased to invite you to attend a public symposium hosted by its Committee on Toward an Open Science Enterprise.
Monday, September 18, 2017 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
National Academy of Sciences Building
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20418
REGISTRATION 
Space is limited, please register in advance by September 12, 2017. Visit the webpage for more information on this symposium. A draft agenda will be available in the coming weeks. Wide access to scientific research results has proven to be an important tool for accelerating scientific progress. The committee on Toward an Open Science Enterprise will conduct a study on the challenges of broadening access to the results of scientific research, described as “open science.” 

Symposium on International Coordination for Science Data Testbeds
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) is pleased to invite you to attend a public symposium.  
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
National Academy of Sciences Building
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20418
REGISTRATION
Space is limited, please register in advance by October 20, 2017.  Visit the webpage for more information on this symposium. A draft agenda will be available in the coming weeks. The symposium will focus on international coordination for science data testbeds. A number of evolving projects around the globe are looking to exploit data to its fullest potential.