ESIP Update: Help us find the next Community Fellows

Welcome to the ESIP Update! Applications for the 2023 Community Fellows are up.

ESIP News and Events

2023 Applications for Community Fellows are Open

ESIP is an open space for data professionals at all career stages. Our Community Fellows and Raskin Scholars are important participants in the community. Help us find next year's cohort!

Applications for the 2023 Community Fellows are open through Friday, October 7.

Learn more about our Community Fellows and read some of their blogs.

Check out the 2022 July ESIP Meeting recordings and many other Earth science data playlists on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/c/ESIPFed

Collaboration Area Telecons

Here's what to expect this week

Monday
- Cloud Computing Cluster: TOPS, ESIP, and Open Science (1 p.m. EDT)
Wednesday
- Soil Ontology and Informatics (7 p.m. EDT)
Thursday
- CANCELLED 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…

Breakthroughs for All: Delivering Equitable Access to America’s Research ( OSTP) White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released new policy guidelines on open science.
Seeing Through Turbulence to Track Oil Spills in the Ocean (Eos) After oil and tar washed up on eastern Mediterranean beaches in 2021, scientists devised a way to trace the pollution back to its sources using satellite imagery and mathematics.

*Does your org have a blog or news story to share with the #EarthScienceData community? Read a good article? Send them our way in ESIP Slack or email ESIP Communications Manager, Allison Mills, allisonmills@esipfed.org.

Tune in…

Intro to QGIS for Educators Workshops (Sept 12-14)

QGreenland is offering a version of their popular beginner workshop tailored just for educators on September 8 from 4-8 p.m. EDT. This workshop is designed for people brand new to GIS who are interested in using the open-source geospatial data platform QGIS with their students.

Annual ASO Workshop (Sept 12-14)

The 2022 Annual Airborne Snow Observatories (ASO) Inc. Workshop will be held online via Zoom in September. This workshop has free registration and will include updates from the ASO Inc. team, presentations on cutting-edge research & operations using ASO data, engaging discussion panels, and keynote speakers.

Accelerating Climate Capacity, Engagement, and Leadership Summit (ACCELS) (Sept 22-23)

The CLEAN Network is organizing the ACCELS Summit which will be a virtual event on September 22-23. This is an opportunity for climate and energy literacy leaders to share, learn, and explore collaborations. There is a $20 registration fee that can be waived if payment is a barrier.

Check Out…

Climate and Forecast Metadata Conventions (CF) Workshop (Due Aug 30)

2022 CF Workshop will take place on September 13-15, hosted by IFCA at Santander, Spain. After two successful virtual editions (2020 and 2021), the 2022 edition is organized as a hybrid event with in-person and online participants. Registration is free but required by August 30, and plenary and hackathon sessions are still open for proposals.

Job Opportunities

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

You'll find positions like:

Computer Engineer, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to help with ESDIS Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) role in NASA's Earth Science Division (ESD) Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program
Usability Specialist, Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership (WHISPers), to help identify and respond to emerging diseases affecting wildlife
Data Steward, Ocean Networks Canada, to help monitor the west and east coasts of Canada and the Arctic to continuously deliver data in real-time
Postdoctoral Researcher in Research Software Policy, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, to participate in the implementation of the US Research Software Sustainability Institute (URSSI)
Machine Learning Specialist, eScience Institute at the University of Washington, to increase eScience capability to support machine learning adoption in a variety of fields