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ESIP Lab Past Projects

The ESIP Lab funds a cohort of projects each year. Here are previously funded projects.

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Photo by NASA

Small grants make big impact.

Microfunding opens the door to bigger projects. And it’s necessary in today’s research cycle. New ideas and technology need a little money and a lot of space with collaborative support to do the incremental work of pushing the Earth sciences forward.

$100k

Total dollars granted through the ESIP Lab each year for pilot projects and FUNding Friday

50+

Total projects funded and guided through the ESIP Lab small-grant innovation process.

>$2M

Additional funding secured by ESIP Lab pilot projects through NSF, NASA, and NOAA.

$200k

Cloud provider credits used by ESIP Lab projects each year.

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2022

Machine Learning for Flood Risk Assessment

Tom Narock | Goucher University

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2022

Integrated Gradient Boosting Decision Trees and Deep Learning For Large-Scale SWE Estimation

Ryan Johnson | University of Alabama

What ESIP Lab funding accomplishes

“We can now incorporate deep learning in hurricane modeling to save lives and reduce damages.”

Assistant Professor , Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, University of Houston

“With ESIP Lab funding, we transitioned a hydrologic modal from “research grade” to cloud-based operations for watersheds on three continents.”

Assistant Professor , Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University

“We are developing a sensor network to calibrate hydrology altimetry data for airborne and satellite applications.”

PhD Candidate , Geography Department, UCLA

“We can now produce high-quality crop maps by creating deep learning workflows in web browsers.”

Research Professor , Computer Science Department, George Mason University

2017

  • ESIPhub: Developing and promoting an ESIP community resource for sharing and running scientific workflows via JupyterHub | Sean Gordon
  • Equipping OPeNDAP with data citation functionality | Niklas Griessbaum
  • Enhancing sUAS Data with Semantic Technologies | Andrea Thomer
  • Improve Earth Data Discovery through Deep Query Understanding | Yongyao Jiang

 

2016

  • An Automatic Approach to Building Earth Science Knowledge Graph to Improve Data Discovery | Lewis McGibbney, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | github | ESIP Blog Post
  • Prototyping a Cloud-based High-Performance Spatial Web Portal for Parallel Analytics of Big Climate Data | Zhenlong Li, University of South Carolina | github
  • Cloud-based computing for predicting streamflow in snowmelt-dominated watersheds | Anne Nolin, Oregon State University | ESIP Blog Post