ESIP Update: We are hiring

Good Morning – 

We are looking for a new Community Director to support ESIP. This person will be responsible for managing the ESIP community collaboration areas, membership and online assets. Having had a similar role myself, I think this is an outstanding opportunity to be a connector and enabling Earth science through collaboration. Further details on position and instructions for applying are on the website. I would be grateful if you could share this with colleagues that are both community-minded and Earth science data-driven. If you have questions please reply to this note.  As a reminder, we have a job announcement Slack channel that has been very busy! To request an invitation to Slack, see the bottom of this note. 

Annie Burgess is attending the Earth and Space on AWS event at the DC Public Sector Summit. More info at https://aws.amazon.com/summits/public-sector-summit-washington-dc-2018/pre-day/. If you are there, seek her out!

Thanks & have a good week, 
Erin 
—– 
Erin Robinson
Executive Director, ESIP

ESIP News: 

• Register for the 2018 Summer ESIP Meeting – early registration ends 6/30 
• New blog post: Metamojis – Metadata with Personality by Matt Bartos
• First Socioeconomic Value of Earth Observations Webinar: “Does it Matter?” posted to YouTube 
• Last week's IT&I Webinar on Analysis of Massive Underwater Video Data using Pangeo on YouTube

This Week's Collaboration Area Telecons: 

• Monday: Data Stewardship
• Tuesday: CLEAN, Science Communication 

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

Around the Federation News

• DataRefuge Storytelling Contest: The Philadelphia-based Data Storytelling team is awarding microgrants: ten awards of $2000 each. Recipients will showcase their data stories at a fall 2019 event (a hybrid storytelling festival and research conference meets art show) in Washington, D.C. at the headquarters of the National Geographic Society and organized by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. A suite of publications, visualizations, and further public engagements will result from this meeting. All details here.
• AGU Opens 2018 Data Visualization and Storytelling Competition: Students, get your data ready and polish your storytelling skills for AGU's Data Visualization and Storytelling Competition. Show us how you can creatively present data pertaining to the Earth, solar system, and universe. Winners receive the opportunity to present their visually based story on the NASA Hyperwall, as well as travel grants and complimentary registration to Fall Meeting. This competition is limited to students who are legal U.S. residents and enrolled full time in a 2- or 4-year undergraduate or graduate institution in the United States. Application deadline: 31 August. Details on website.
• Following a large number of requests and for practical reasons relating to the review process, the Call for Abstracts for SciDataCon 2018 has been extended to Monday, 25 June (23:59 UTC).
• Science Gateways Community Institute Bootcamp in Chicago this August! Are you building or developing a science gateway (portal, virtual research environment, digital interface)? If so, the Science Gateways Bootcamp could be for you. Science Gateways Bootcamp: Strategies for Developing, Operating, and Sustaining Your Gateway is a week-long workshop for leaders of gateways who want to further develop and scale their work. Participants engage in hands-on activities to help them articulate the value of their work to key stakeholders and to create a strong development, operations, and sustainability plan. The Bootcamp includes: Core business strategy skills, Technology best practices, Long-term sustainability strategies. Details on website. 
• Job Opportunity: Data Delivery Manager (DDM) – Ocean Observatory Initiative The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering department is currently searching for a key senior IT position to support its Ocean Observatory Initiative (OOI). The Data Delivery Manager (DDM) is a full-time-exempt position primarily responsible for end to end delivery of critical OOI data as well as providing overall responsibility for various cyberinfrastructure activities. See full job posting at: http://www.whoi.edu/jobs