The ESIP Meeting is here!

ESIP Meeting Announcements

25 years. 50 meetings. 300 Earth science professionals. 35 community-driven events. All virtual.

The 2023 January ESIP Meeting kicks off this week. We look forward to seeing you!
 

Registration, Agenda, and Logistics

All general meeting info can be found on esipfed.org/meetings ⏤ make sure to register through Cvent and explore the Sched agenda. The QiqoChat platform will be accessible this week to registered and approved attendees; your login uses the same email as your registration. Email staff@esipfed.org with questions.
 

ESIP 101

First-time attendee? Want a refresher on how ESIP works? Join us for ESIP 101, which kicks off the ESIP Meeting today at noon EST.  
 

The Doors of ESIP

Inspired by both retro music and our innovative, forward-thinking Earth science community, check out this year’s t-shirt fundraiser from our friends at Element 84.

Also, stay tuned for our “Doors of ESIP” collage. Send a photo of your door and tell us your “opening doors” story. Who has held open doors for you? How do you hold open doors for others in the open science space? Email staff@esipfed.org or post on LinkedIn and tag us!

ESIP News and Events

Nominations Committee

ESIP is a community-driven organization. The ESIP leadership elections shifted to the July ESIP Meeting and the Nominations Committee is tasked with identifying candidates for ESIP leadership positions. Want to help? Reach out to the Nomination Committee Chair Sarah Ramdeen: sarah.ramdeen@gmail.com
 

Ignite@AGU Videos are Live

Ignite@AGU was held at the Adler Planetarium during the AGU Fall Meeting. Sponsored by NASA's Earth Science Division and held in partnership with ESIP, all the professionally recorded videos are live on ESIP's YouTube channel. 
 

Understanding Needs to Broaden Outside Use of NASA Data (UNBOUND)

UNBOUND for Air Quality (UNBOUND AQ) is a multi-session workshop to identify how to make NASA data products more discoverable and suitable for analyses to address air quality needs. The workshop is a collaboration between ESIP and NASA's Earth Science Data Systems. The deadline for applications is February 3, 2023. 

What's Happening in Earth Science Data

To Read…

• Wellcome Trust and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Partner with DataCite to Build the Open Global Data Citation Corpus | DataCite Blog
• Communities of Practice and Climate Change | Knology

Tune in…

Workshop: Innovation Summit  (DUE: Jan 22; May 23-25)

Organized by The Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab (ESIIL), the Innovation Summit will be held in person May 23-25 at the University of Colorado Boulder, with virtual attendance options also available. Applications are due by January 22.
 

Workshop: coreR Course (DUE: Feb 13; April 3-7)

The NCEAS Learning Hub is also offering their next coreR course in April 2023. This is a five-day introductory course on collaborative, open, reproducible, and essential data science skills taught in R. There is a scholarship available for students, which is due Feb 13. 
 

Workshop: Marine Biodiversity Data Mobilization (DUE: Feb 15; April 18-19)

The workshop is part of a contribution to the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and the Marine Life 2030 Decade Action. The workshop is jointly hosted by CIOOS, Hakai, IOOS, MBON, OBIS-USA, and OTN and is intended to be a small hands-on, interactive virtual workshop focused on mobilizing marine biological observation datasets to the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS). Apply by Feb 15.
 

Check out…

OpenAQ Invites Project Pythia Uploads 

ESIP partner OpenAQ and Project Pythia are looking to highlight more Python notebooks using the OpenAQ API. Guidelines for uploading to the Pythia community.
 

GSA: Geoinformatics Award (Feb 1)

The Geological Society of America (GSA) Geoinformatics & Data Science Division is now accepting nominations for the M. Lee Allison Award. This award is granted annually by GSA for outstanding contributions to geosciences through the application of the principles of Geoinformatics. The award is open to any GSA member in good standing.
 

Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest (Feb 28)

The Pizzigati Prize provides grants to developers making a two-faceted contribution to social change: practical impact and open source. Awarded through NTEN, the application is due Feb 28.
 

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, 2023.