ESIP Update: Raskin Scholarship, UCGIS, SciDataCon and more.

ESIP UPDATE: 02.05.18

Federation News  

• Winter Meeting videos available online
• ESIP Visioneers want YOU!

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Federation News
Winter Meeting Recordings Online
The link to all of the ESIP 2018 Winter Meeting plenary and breakout session recordings is here: https://esip.sharefile.com/d-s158834cf0644f049

To find a recording for a specific session, you will need to know which day it was held, and in what room. This, along with the session description and speaker/presenter info, can all be found here: https://2018esipwintermeeting.sched.com/.
Note that multiple sessions may be recorded in one file, so you may have to fast-forward through to find the start of your desired session. 

ESIP Visioneers want YOU!
It's a new year, and ESIP is celebrating 20 years of making data matter!  Visioneers are volunteers who guide ESIP's meeting planning and technology platform use. Are you interested in making ESIP meetings better? Join in!  Do you have a problem using any of ESIP's collaboration environments? Help us fix this for everyone! Got an idea for something new, or an experience from another meeting you want to share: call in!

The next Visioneers Call is this Wednesday, February 7 3pm EST/NOON PST
Please join the visioneers meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone. https://www.gotomeeting.com/join/883541213
You can also dial in using your phone. United States: +1 (646) 749-3112 Access Code: 883-541-213

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RDA Drone Group Telecon Series
Addressing common challenges, opportunities, & technologies in making geotagged research data FAIR:

First telecon: Avenues and progress towards making sUAS data FAIR & How OceanIds is working to fully automate the data archival, processing and dissemination process from EU Underwater Gliders.

• Tuesday 6 Feb 8am/11am/5pm (PST/EST/CET)*
• Google calendar event invite link: https://tinyurl.com/y7mvc6qf

UCGIS Symposium
UCGIS is pleased to announce that its 2018 Symposium will be co-hosted with the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS)! This joint AutoCarto and Symposium will explore Frontiers of Geospatial Data Science. We will consider connections between Geospatial Science and the burgeoning field of Data Science, seen in newly named academic departments and calls for funded research. At this event we will explore emerging opportunities and challenges for the geospatial and mapping sciences with an eye on trends in deep learning, data-intensive computing platforms, and visualization, as well as geospatial big data sources and applications such as location-aware social media, autonomous vehicles, and earth-observing micro- and nano-satellites and sensors.

More info here. 

SciDataCon Abstract Extension
Deadline for proposals is extended to midnight UTC on 19 February 2018: Proposals are invited for sessions at SciDataCon 2018: The Digital Frontiers of Global Science. SciDataCon 2018 will take place as part of International Data Week (IDW), 5–8 November 2018 [NEW DATE], in Gaborone, Botswana. Session proposals should be made at: http://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/.

Gridded Population of the World (GPWv.4.10)
The first ever global data set on the spatial distribution of population broken down by age group and male versus female is now available. The most recent update to the fourth version of the Gridded Population of the World (GPWv.4.10) data collection contains a unique data set on basic demographic characteristics related to age structure and sex ratios for the world, based on the 2010 round of national censuses. The data were developed by the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) operated by CIESIN. 

The free, downloadable data and descriptions, including documentation and maps, are available at: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/gpw-v4/whatsnewrev10

NOTE: Job Opportunities (including internships) are now listed on the ESIP 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.