ESIP Update: Ignite 🔥

ESIP News

Iginite@AGU

5 min. 20 slides. Share your story! Apply to be a speaker by Tuesday, Nov 1 for the popular science storytelling event at the AGU Fall Meeting: igniteagu.io
 

Join the Open Science and Data Help Desk at AGU

Volunteer in-person or virtually for the upcoming Open Science & Data Help Desk to be hosted during the 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting  from Dec 12-16.
 

ESIP Awards for Collaboration and Impact

This is the final week to get nominations in for the  Martha Maiden Award and our ESIP Partner of the Year. They are due Monday, Oct 31. 
 

What's Happening in Earth Science Data

To read…

• On the Impacts of Ice Cover on Flow Profiles in a Bend | Water Resources Research | Berkay Koyuncu and Trung Bao Le published work that started as an ESIP lab project
• Data sharing: more science unions must act | Nature | Xiaogang (Marshall) Ma, Lesley Wyborn and Simon Hodson – check out this Twitter thread for the full text
• Introducing the FAIR Principles for research software | Nature – Scientific Data 
• Introducing Data Science Training and Cloud-Hosted Notebooks From Anaconda | Anaconda

Blog highlights from our new ESIP Partners OpenAQ and Azavea:

• App Raises Awareness by Translating Air Pollution Into Cigarettes Smoked | OpenAQ
• Benchmarking Zarr and Parquet Data Retrieval using the National Water Model (NWM) in a Cloud-native environment | Azavea

Tune in…

Access NASA GES DISC Meteorological and Hydrological Data for Flood Analyses (Oct 26)

In this webinar – held Oct 26 at 2 p.m. EDT – NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) speakers will cover meteorological and hydrological datasets that are openly and freely available for flood analyses. A live demonstration will provide a recent flood event use case to show participants how to visualize and analyze the rainfall data from GES DISC  both within a cloud environment and in using other data discovery and data access methods. Register through NASA.
 

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USAID Geospatial Strategy Survey (Closes Oct 26)

In addition to acknowledging the Geospatial Data Act of 2018, the strategy establishes an USAID-wide framework for adopting geospatial data and tools, strengthening capacity, implementing geospatial policies and practices, and partnering to advance geospatial solutions for international development. Provide feedback directly at usaid.gov/geospatial-strategy during the comment period Oct 12-26.

CODATA Call for Papers (Nov 15)

The Data Science Journal is seeking papers for a special collection devoted to “Data Management Planning across Disciplines and Infrastructures.” Papers should focus on work related to Data Management Plans and their implementation, not data management per se.