ESIP Update: Last call for new members, ESIP @ NOAA EDM Workshop this week, Visioneers greening ESIP meetings & News from Unidata

Good Morning & Happy belated Earth Day – 

This week we are supporting NOAA's annual Environmental Data Management Workshop, April 23rd and 24th. There's tons of great presentations and we are making all sessions available for free via remote participation (and recording)! Schedule and remote participation details are listed on Sched. 

ESIP will post the next class of new members on May 1. If your group has been considering joining ESIP, please submit your application this week. Details for joining are here. 

This summer, we are intentionally making the meeting more sustainable by taking the pledge to Skip the Straw and reducing our single use plastics (h/t to Danie Kinkade's daughter, Meredith, for leading this effort and getting it on our radar!). If you have ideas for making ESIP meetings more sustainable, join Visioneers this Wednesday. Session proposals and speaker travel requests are due next Monday, 4/30 and registration is open – links below. 

Thanks & have a good week, 

Erin – Executive Director, ESIP

Quick reminders: 

• Register for the 2018 Summer ESIP Meeting
• Summer Meeting call for sessions is open here.  Sessions are due 4/30 
• Speaker travel requests due to Finance committee by 4/30. Email esip-ficom@lists.esipfed.org. 
• DataOne User Group Registration is open – There is no registration fee to attend and participate in the DUG meeting. Information, registration and group hotel rates can be found at: bit.ly/DUG2018

This Week's Collaboration Area Telecons: 

• Monday: Cloud, Documentation, Partnership
• Tuesday: Governance, CLEAN, Semantic Tech
• Wednesday: Visioneers

See the full telecon calendar here. Select the meeting you'd like to attend, login instructions are included in description. 

Telecon Highlight: This week is from the Documentation Cluster – they meet TODAY at 2 ET/Noon MT. The focus of the call will be an update from Ted Habermann on the ISO 191* family of dialects. Three ISO standards have recently been updated with changes required to support NASA requirements: ISO 19115-1 and ISO 19157 were amended, and ISO 19115-2 was revised. The presentation will describe the changes in terms of specific use cases. So come with your questions, and learn how you can better document things like personal identifiers in your favorite metadata dialect!
 

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2018 Unidata Users Workshop – June 25-28, 2018
The Unidata Program Center in Boulder, Colorado is pleased to announce the opening of registration and the availability of limited travel support for the 2018 Unidata Users Workshop, entitled Reducing Time to Science: Evolving Workflows for Geoscience Research and Education. 

The workshop will be held in Boulder, Colorado from June 25-28, 2018 and will bring together community members, distinguished speakers, and Unidata staff to raise awareness about current trends in the academic geoscience community. Over four days together, attendees will learn about and discuss Data Proximate Analysis, Machine Learning and Data Analytics, Using GOES-16 Data, and Working with Ensemble NWP Output. All details & registration: https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/events/2018UsersWorkshop/