ESIP Update: IT&I Rants and Raves

ESIP News and Events

ESIP Meeting Highlights Webinar

Join us for a recap and synthesis of the 2023 January ESIP Meeting: Wednesday, Feb. 22 from 3-4:30 p.m. EST. Register through the ESIP Community Calendar. We look forward to discussing and distilling the conference highlights and next steps with you!

And stay tuned for the session recordings, which will be going up on the ESIP YouTube channel in a couple weeks.
 

Nominations Committee

ESIP is a community-driven organization. The next ESIP leadership starts in July and the Nominations Committee is tasked with identifying candidates for ESIP leadership positions. Want to help? Reach out to the Nomination Committee Chair Sarah Ramdeen: sarah.ramdeen@gmail.com
 

Ignite@AGU Videos are Live

Ignite@AGU was held at the Adler Planetarium during the AGU Fall Meeting. Sponsored by NASA's Earth Science Division and held in partnership with ESIP, all the professionally recorded videos are live on ESIP's YouTube channel. 
 

New Wildfire Cluster

Dedicated to open wildfire science and proactive solutions in wildfire management. Starting in March, the new Cluster will meet on the second Wednesday of each month at 4 p.m. EST. Join the conversation and sign up for the group's mailing list.

IT&I: Rants and Raves

Thurs Feb 9  at 3 p.m. EST

Join the Information Technology and Interoperability (IT&I) Committee for their monthly call. The conversation builds on the “rants and raves” session from the 2023 January ESIP Meeting: starting with very short presentations and an in-depth discussion on interoperability and the Committee's next steps.

• Mike Mahoney: Make Reproducibility Easy
• Dave Blodgett: FAIR data and Science Data Gateways
• Doug Fils:  Web architecture and Semantic Web
• Megan Carter: Opening Doors for Collaboration
• Yuhan “Douglas” Rao: Where are we for AI-ready data?
• Matt Jones: So many toothbrushes

What's Happening in Earth Science Data

To Read…

• Introducing OpenAQ Explorer | ESIP partner OpenAQ has a new interactive web app that adds new functionality
• NEON Data Release 2023 | ESIP partner NEON celebrates and shares their third data release
• Engineering assistant professor receives NSF CAREER Award | NDSU | Trung Le started his work on river ice effects through an ESIP Lab project
• Making Drone Data FAIR Through a Community-Developed Information Framework | Data Science Journal | Another ESIP Lab project! With ESIP community leaders Lindsay Barbieri and Andrea Thomer
• GStatSim V1.0: a Python package for geostatistical interpolation and simulation | EGUsphere (pre-print) | And another ESIP Lab and GeoSMART project

Tune in…

Workshop: coreR Course (DUE: Feb 13; April 3-7)

The NCEAS Learning Hub is also offering their next coreR course in April 2023. This is a five-day introductory course on collaborative, open, reproducible, and essential data science skills taught in R. There is a scholarship available for students, which is due Feb 13. 
 

Check out…

NEON Permafrost Technical Working Group Nominations (Due Feb 17)

Organized by The Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab (ESIIL), the Innovation Summit will be held in person May 23-25 at the University of Colorado Boulder, with virtual attendance options also available. Applications are due by January 22.
 

NSF: Dear Colleague Letter – Geosciences and AI/ML Funding 

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) encourages the submission of proposals that advance our understanding of geosciences using AI and ML methods. Read more details in the Dear Colleague Letter (DCL).
 

Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest (Feb 22)

The Pizzigati Prize provides grants to developers making a two-faceted contribution to social change: practical impact and open source. Awarded through NTEN, the application is due Feb 22.
 

New Climate Change Computing Award in Honor of Gordon Bell (April 15)

To highlight and encourage more research focused on modelling the devastating impact of climate change, ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has established the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling. The deadline for applications is April 15, 2023.
 

Call for papers – Applied Computing and Geosciences (May 31)

For a forthcoming special issue on “Geoscience ontologies and knowledge graphs” in Applied Computing & Geoscience, the guest editors invite contributions that present advances in building and applying ontologies or knowledge graphs in any field of geoscience. Submission window closes May 31.