ESIP Update: Session proposals are due this month

Welcome to the ESIP Update! Learn about new events, funding, collaborations, and jobs in the Earth science data community.

ESIP News

Iginite@AGU is at the Adler Planetarium!

And tomorrow (Nov 1) is the last day to apply to be a speaker: igniteagu.io Join us for this lively event of short talks and big ideas on Wed, Dec 14 during the AGU Fall Meeting 2022.

Join the Open Science and Data Help Desk at AGU

Volunteer for the upcoming Open Science & Data Help Desk, our largest event to date, to be hosted by ESIP and AGU during the 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting from Dec 12-15. You can field questions, share demos, and much more.

Call for Sessions

2023 January ESIP Meeting

We have opened the session proposal portal for the 2023 January ESIP Meeting to be held online January 23-27. The deadline for submission is 11:59 p.m. PST on Friday, November 11. Review the proposal details: esipfed.org/jan23-proposals

The 2023 theme is “Opening Doors to Open Science” and the meeting agenda will be available later this fall. Once again, ESIP will be able to offer virtual design support for all session organizers.

ESIP Meeting Session Office Hour

Community Director Megan Carter will hold a virtual office hour on Thurs, Nov 3 at 3 p.m. EDT to answer questions about sessions and help develop ideas or make connections. Check the ESIP Community Calendar to join.

Collaboration Area Telecons

Here's what to expect this week:

Tuesday
- CANCELLED Agriculture and Climate (2 p.m. EDT)
- Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Justice (EDIJ) Committee (3 p.m. EDT)
- Soil Ontology and Informatics (4 p.m. EDT)
- Envirosensing (5 p.m. EDT)
- COR (5 p.m. EDT)
Wednesday
- IM Code Registry (2 p.m. EDT)
Thursday
- 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…

Robots with a Purpose: Collecting Data to Answer Scientific Questions | Esri | Dawn Wright
Preprints and open preprint review: a workshop on innovations in scholarly publishing | Upstream | Recap of a workshop from Sept 2022
POLDERs Polar Federated Search (PFS) | new search tool from Polar Data Discovery Enhancement Research (POLDER)

Tune in…

FAIR Metadata & Vocabularies: Time Invested & Quality Returned (Nov 3)

In this EarthCube and GO FAIR US webinar, taking place Thurs, Nov 3 at 11 a.m. EDT, information will be presented about the importance of making metadata and vocabularies “machine-actionable” for data integration and interoperability. Register in advance.

Check out…

Unidata Survey on Machine-Learning

ESIP's partner Unidata is ramping up their machine learning efforts. This brief survey will help shape and direct those efforts.

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.

Job Opportunities

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

You'll find positions like:

Geospatial Data Curator, Virginia Tech, to focus on geospatial data curation support and dataset reusability
Earth and Environmental Science Research Facilitator, Research Data Services at UCSB, to contribute to local, regional, and national discussions and initiatives in data management and digital scholarship
AI/ML Technical Scientist, Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), to work as part of NERC Earth Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service (NEODAAS)
Postdoctoral Scholar in Microwave Remote
Sensing Data Analytics, US Forest Service, to use new sensor and remote sensing techniques for wildland fire