ESIP Update: The ESIP Meeting recordings are live

And it's the final week of the ESIP Lab RFP, which funds up to $20,000 for wildfire and water resources projects.

Get your ESIP Lab projects in!

Deadline is Friday, March 3.

Our ESIP Lab process is unique. A small grant can take a big idea to big places. Check out how that happened for Ziheng Sun and Geoweaver or Eric Sproles and mountain snow drone data.

A key part of the process: Including learning objectives in research proposals. Read more about how our ESIP Lab Director Annie Burgess sees new skills as a driver of the research life cycle. (And let us know what #EarthScienceData skills you are working on!)

ESIP News and Events

ESIP Meeting Recordings are Live

Now available on the ESIP YouTube channel as a playlist, we are excited to share the breakout sessions, digital twins plenary, and closing plenary on Sched. The opening plenary is available for a limited time to registered meeting participants — email staff@esipfed.org to get access and listen to short recordings of extra responses to some of the Slido questions.

Next ESIP Meeting?

If you are wondering about the next meeting, we will be gathering in Burlington, Vermont from July 18-21 at the DoubleTree by Hilton. We keep esipfed.org/meetings updated and plan to release our call for sessions in March. We look forward to seeing some of you in person!

Raskin Scholarship – Applications Due March 25

Founded in honor of Rob Raskin, this scholarship helps support graduate students in the Earth or computer sciences with an interest in community evolution of Earth science data systems. The awardee presents at the July ESIP Meeting (remember last year's inspiring presentation with Colette Brown?)

Learn more and share the link: esipfed.org/raskin. Applications are due by March 25.

Collaboration Area Highlights

Cloud Computing: Ask Me Anything (AMA)

The “Bringing Cloud-Native Science Down to Earth” breakout at the 2023 January ESIP Meeting was one of the most popular sessions. Here is a chance to follow up: The Cloud Computing Cluster is hosting an AMA during their monthly call on Monday, Feb. 27 at 1 p.m. EST. Join via the ESIP Community Calendar.

New Wildfires Cluster

Dedicated to open wildfire science and proactive solutions in wildfire management. The new Cluster's first meeting is Wed, March 8 at 4 p.m. EST. Join the conversation and sign up for the group's mailing list.

SWEET Working Sessions

Join the ESIP Semantic Tech Committee to work on enhancing the SWEET Ontology — semantic web for Earth and environmental terminology. The group is specifically looking to review candidate term definitions from multiple vocabularies as well as bug fixes. Everyone is welcome to attend; the next session is Wed, March 15 at 4 p.m. EST. Join via the ESIP Community Calendar.

Collaboration Area Telecons

Here is what to expect this week:

Monday
- Cloud Computing (1 p.m. EST)
- Meetings Committee (2 p.m. EST)
- Partnership Committee (3 p.m. EST)
Tuesday
- Open Science (noon EST)
- Information Quality (2 p.m. EST)
- Physical Samples (3 p.m. EST)
Thursday
- CANCELLED Biological Data Standards (2 p.m. EST)
- Disaster Life Cycle (4 p.m. EST)

See the full Community Calendar. Select the meeting you'd like to attend, login instructions are included in description. We list all times in U.S. Eastern Time; check the time in your time zone.

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What's Happening in Earth Science Data

To Read…

AI-ready Open Data | Bipartisan Policy Center | ESIP staff and community participants helped contribute to the report
Explaining the Feds Climate Test | E&E News

Check out…

AGU Open Science Recognition Prize (April 12)

The Open Science Recognition Prize is awarded by the American Geophysical Union to a person or team for outstanding work in advancing Open Science related to Earth and space science and its impact globally. Winners will be selected from those that advance Open Science through creation or use of open data, software, and other open results. Nominations are due April 12.

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.

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.

Call for papers – Climate Change, Global Air Quality, and Society (May 31)
This joint special issue of Wiley's Community Science Exchange will bring together experts from around the world addressing the interlinked problems of threats to air quality from accelerating climate change, and the impact of climate action on air quality. Submission window closes May 31.

Job Opportunities

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

You'll find positions like:

Cloud Software Engineers | EarthScope | to migrate data operations from an on-prem data center to AWS
Physical Scientist | Air Sciences, Inc. | to work on scientific programming in air quality data and research