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As we are undergoing a website redesign, we need your help. Please fill out this brief form by Wednesday, April 19 to tell us about issues, wishes, and improvements for esipfed.org.
 

Collaboration Area Highlights

Soil Cluster: Guest Speaker on GLOSIS 

The ESIP Soil Ontology and Informatics Cluster is hosting a presentation and discussion on GLOSIS with Luis de Sousa. Join the presentation on Tuesday, April 19 at 3 p.m. EDT.
 

Open Science Cluster: Connect Data Through FAIR and CARE 

The Open Science Cluster is starting a series of webinars looking at open science through different lenses and projects. On Tuesday, April 25 at noon EDT, Andrea Thomer from the University of Arizona will present “Past Global Change Research: Connecting Data Systems and Practitioners through FAIR and CARE practices.” 

The session will cover how to develop communities of practice around the open science principles FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) and CARE (Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, and Ethics).
 

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. 

Missed last week's session? Catch the recording of “Evolution of open source geospatial python” with Tom Kradilis on ESIP's YouTube channel.

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

ESIP Meeting Announcements

92 days until the ESIP Meeting!

We are excited to gather with you July 18-21 for the 2023 July ESIP Meeting in-person in Burlington and online everywhere.

Early bird registration is open: esipfed.org/july23-register

Want to learn more about what makes up our registration rates? Read more in our guest blog from Executive Director Susan Shingledecker on successful hybrid meetings.
 

Send in your proposals by Monday, May 8

The session proposal portal is open through 11:59 p.m. PT on Monday, May 8.

Got an idea but need collaborators or a sounding board? Join Community Director Megan Carter on April 20 (4 p.m. EDT) and April 26 (11 a.m. EDT) for Open Office Hours.
 

Book your hotel

The easiest way to help ensure a successful hybrid meeting is to stay at the conference hotel: DoubleTree by Hilton, Burlington. When attendees choose to stay at other locations, this hurts our ability to meet our room block numbers and can cost ESIP additional fees out of pocket.

The room block is open now through Friday, June 24. Direct booking link: esipfed.org/july23-hotel

General info on ESIP Meetings: esipfed.org/meetings
 

What's Happening in Earth Science Data

To Read…

• How to EGU23: the Data Help Desk! | EGU GeoLog | Kicks off next week!
• The Vanishing Scholar: Indigenous Erasure in Funding Data | Eos
• The Library of Alexandra | Radiolab | Podcast episode exploring the controversies of SciHub

Tune In…

Using Open Resources and Community-Engaged Research to Assess Environmental Exposures (April 20)

Are you working on addressing environmental exposures and health with community-engaged research and/or open data? Then submit abstracts to the International Society of Exposure Science Symposium on “Using Open Resources and Community-Engaged Research to Assess Environmental Exposures”. Deadline is on April 20.

Building Upon the EarthCube Community:
A Geoscience and Cyberinfrastructure Workshop (April 21)

The “Building Upon the EarthCube Community: A Geoscience and Cyberinfrastructure Workshop” will be in Marina Del Rey (Los Angeles), CA, June 27-28. Covers two days of science talks, posters, and demonstrations related to cyberinfrastructure in the geosciences. Abstract submission closes on April 21.

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 are due April 21.

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. 
 

Check Out…

Polar Geospatial Center Call for Advisory Nominations (May 1)

The Polar Geospatial Center seeks nominations for their Science and Operations Advisory Committee (SOAC). PGC is recruiting members to represent 3 communities: 1) NSF Facilities, 2) Polar Operations/Logistics, and 3) NSF-funded polar science. Candidates can be any community members supported or impacted by PGC activities. The nominations deadline is May 1.
 

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.