ESIP Update: Welcome our new partner, EarthScope Consortium!

ESIP News & Stories

Welcome our newest partner!

EarthScope Consortium is our newest ESIP Partner. Check out their calendar of events and latest news and stories.

As an organization of organizations, our Partners anchor the ESIP community and help us govern as a nonprofit.

Learn more about partnership: esipfed.org/get-involved/join

Guest Blog: Air Quality Affects Birds

Olivia Sanderfoot is a birder who studies the impacts of air pollution on our feathered friends and was a 2022 Ignite@AGU speaker, co-hosted by NASA’s Earth Science Division and ESIP at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.

In her guest blog, Sanderfoot builds off her Ignite@AGU talk and encourages collaboration across Earth science disciplines to save birds. The article includes beautiful, detailed photos of birds by Graham Montgomery and Sevilla Rhoads. 

ESIP Meeting Announcements

Expanding Access July 2023 ESIP Meeting

Share our scholarship for students from underrepresented groups in ESIP. Help us expand access to Earth science data and the professional networks of our community. 

Note from our ESIP Community Director

Hello ESIP Community,

Patty (ESIP Operations Director) and I just returned from visiting Burlington, VT, ahead of the upcoming ESIP Meeting.

It was great to see the space and envision all of the data-related challenges and opportunities we will work on together in-person and online in July!

There is one week left to propose a session: esipfed.org/july23-sessions. Not sure about submitting a session or nervous to hit the submit button?

Here are five ways to help you move forward:

1. Read 5 Tips to Organize a Great ESIP Meeting Session. 
2. Check out past meeting session descriptions and last year's event for inspiration.
3. Looking for collaborators or speakers? Share your idea in the ESIP Slack  #general channel.
4. Specifics help in your proposal. But there will be time to shape your idea after submission. Stay tuned for design workshop and virtual office hours with our design expert, Charley Haley, as well as opportunities to discuss with ESIP staff. 
5. Have an idea for a presentation, but not a full-fledged session? Sign up during registration for a poster or demo during the Research Showcase. 

Thank you all for your thoughtful session contributions and do reach out if we can help between now and the submission deadline of Monday, May 8.

Thanks, 
Megan Carter
ESIP Community Director
 

See you at the 2023 July ESIP Meeting!

We are excited to gather with you July 18-21 for the ESIP Meeting in-person in Burlington and online everywhere.

More info: esipfed.org/meetings
 

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Collaboration Area Highlights

Recording – Cloud Computing Cluster: GeoZarr and Sharding

Missed the ESIP Cloud Computing Cluster's part two of the “Zarr: The Next Generation series? Check out the recording and make sure to join later this month for part three.
 

Biological Data Standards Cluster: Feedback Requested

To help new data managers, the Biological Data Standards Cluster created the Biological Observation Data Standardization: A Primer for Data Managers and wrote about the project on our Merge blog. The project continues to grow — check out the project's evolution in their GitHub repo and provide feedback.
 

IT&I Rants and Raves

Rants and Raves are designed to get smart people to share insightful, provocative views of what's great and what's not about technology and interoperability in modern Earth science. 

Next up: Join Waldo Jaquith for the weal and woe of buying software for government agencies. 

The webinars are cohosted by the ESIP Information Technology and Interoperability (IT&I) Committee and the USGS Community for Data Integration (CDI). 

What's Happening in Earth Science Data

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Building Upon the EarthCube Community:
A Geoscience and Cyberinfrastructure Workshop (May 8)

The “Building Upon the EarthCube Community: A Geoscience and Cyberinfrastructure Workshop” will be in Marina Del Rey (Los Angeles), CA, June 27-28. The event covers two days of science talks, posters, and demonstrations related to cyberinfrastructure in the geosciences, including two keynote talks by Chris Mattmann (NASA JPL) and Weiwei Duan (USC-ISI). Abstract submission has been extended to May 8.

Participation from early-career scientists and members of underrepresented groups in the computer and geosciences is particularly encouraged. There are about 20 early-career travel awards will be awarded. Applications for these awards have been extended to May 2.

Storytelling with Earth System Science Data (May 12)

Unidata’s community Users Workshop, Storytelling with Earth System Science Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Effective, Ethical, and Reproducible Science, is scheduled for June 5-8, 2023 in Boulder, CO, and online. The workshop will cover topics ranging from grand data challenges, tools for exploratory data analysis and visualizing multi-disciplinary data to tell a compelling story, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, data ethics, and open science.

Attendees will spend time with coaches to create a take-home tangible story using their own data. A schedule of workshop topics can be found on the 2023 Users Workshop page; registration is open through May 12, 2023.
 

RDA-US: 10th Anniversary Community Meeting (May 23)

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Learn about new and existing projects in the RDA-US community and discuss recent policy changes, current proposed RDA-US, and explore further collaborations. Gather for an in-person celebration in Washington D.C. 
 

Join FAIR Points (June 26)

Join FAIR Points on June 26 at 9 a.m. EDT for a webinar on Hugging Face and making machine learning models more discoverable. Register online.
 

Check Out…

Latin America ASIC and Air Quality Webinars

Air Sensors International Conference (ASIC) is gauging interest in a Latin America conference. If you are interested in supporting the conference as a presenter, offering connections and direction as a program committee member, or providing financial support as an exhibitor, please fill out the form.

ASIC is hosting webinars in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and looking for multilingual experts that can support this endeavor. Share your interest in the ASIC form.
 

Gateways 2023 (June 5)

Gateways 2023 is an opportunity for science gateways to showcase their ability to teach, empower and engage research, and provide technologies to various communities. The gathering meets in Pittsburgh, PA, Oct 30-Nov 1.

Presentations, demos, panels, and tutorials are due June 5 and  BYOP – Bring Your Own Portal and poster submissions are due August 7.