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What is FUNding Friday?
FUNding Friday is an annual mini-grant competition associated with ESIP’s July Meeting. The mini-grants are available to ESIP meeting attendees ($5000) and to students and Education Committee workshop participants ($3000), with the total number of awards specified annually; generally 2-4 awards per participant group.
Projects are expected to be completed over a one-year period between the July Meeting of the award and the next July Meeting.
Past Winners
2025
- Bertha Martinez Ramirez – Weather Data and Climate Change
- Lalita Khemka – Engineering a Cleaner Ocean: Save Our Home!
- Alton Wimberley – What’s in The Water?
- Cory Levinson – A World of Data: Decentralized and Cloud-Optimized (aka Cloud-Optimized Decentralized Earth Data – “CODED”)
- Julia Lowndes – Earthaccess: Growing the family
- Carla McAuliffe – Putting 3-D data into the hands of K-12 students – literally and physically
2024
- Pamela Freeman – Teaching Differently Abled Learners to Be Citizen Scientists (results poster)
- Tim Freeman – A Day in the Life (results poster)
- Chandra Earl – Help Desk Data At Risk (Project Link)
- Joseph Gum – Enhancing Indigenous Data Management Capacities
- Amy Quarkume – CYPHER: Communities Yielding Power by Harnessing Emergent Resource (Project Link) (Results Poster)
- Debasish Mishra – FUSION: Framework for Unifying Systematic Integration of Observational Networks
2023
- Elizabeth Adams – The Missing Middle
- Eli Holmes – Seed Money For a Jupyter Hub for Indian Marine Biologists and Oceanography
- Wade Bishop – History Of the People of ESIP (Project Link)
- Sruti Modekurty – ESIP.local
- Lisa Kihn – Smoke and Wildfires Data Scavengers
- Vicky Gorman – Community Science Education Program
2022
- Chris Simoniello – Data Management In Science Explained
- Brian Callahan – Next-Gen Tools for Democratizing Data Exploration with NASA Data Pathfinder
- Karen Moe – Operational GIS Dashboard for EJ Communities (Project Link)
- Qian Huang – Assessing Wildfire Impact on COVID-19 Using Remote Sensing / Airborne Data
- Karie Suhajda – All Knowledge is Connected to All Other Knowledge
- Amruta Kale – Implementing Common Workflow Language
- Samantha Child – Kaima K Outdoor Learning Lab
2021
- Ryan McGranaghan – Space Weather? In ESIP? Why?
- Thilanka Munasinghe – Identifying Vulnerable Facilities to to the Extreme Effects of Precipitation
- Megan Raisle – Can we combine databases to get better info?
- Eric Walters – Student-led conference for high school students and educators worldwide
- Jessica Elliott – Multiple Point-of-Interest Walk
- Rebecca Walters – Citizen Science School Garden and Community Arboretum
- Mimi Walker – Wildfires
2020
- Amber Budden, Daniella Lowenberg, Shelley Stall, Denise Hills, Erin McLean, Rob Crystal Ornelas, Kristin Vanderbilt – Why is this so hard?
- Robert Rovetto – Semantic Orbital Sweep
- Sarah Ramdeen – Deep Time Climate Data
- Alexis Garretson – Columba
- Jake Hinz – SOS Explorer
- Steven Martell – Drone Data for Schools
2019
- Yuhan Rao, Anne Wilson, Nancy Hoebelheinrich – Tutorials: Introducing Machine Learning
- Ted Habermann – Identifying ESIP Connections
- Chao Ma, Marshall Ma – Deep Time Climate Data
- Ben Roberts-Pierel, Ellie Davis – Bill-ding Bridges: Data informing policy
- Rose Borden, Katy Rico – Developing a Series of Flexible Modules for Community College Earth Science Students
- Marguerite Walker – Dive Into Data
2018
- James Gallagher , Bob Simmons – Harvesting User Knowledge
- Keith Maull, Ben Galewsky, Sean Gordon – A Searchable Repository of Notebook Metadata
- Shayna Skolnik – Are you a climate warrior?
- Connor Scully-Allison – Automatic Database & Microservice Generation from Structured Ontologies
- Ranalda Tsosie – How’s your H2O?
- Patrick Chandler – Now Hear This: An Audible Data Experience
2017
- Ruth Duerr, Reid Boehm – A 20-year Surprise
- Beth Huffer – Earth Science Idol
- Ryan Bowe, Gary Motz – Photogrammetric Metadata
- Matt Bartos – Automated Sensor Firmware
- Lori Baker – Data, Drones & Great American Eclipse
- Deborah Gaff – Collecting Data that Matters – Physical Computing
2016
- Sean Gordon – Making Metadata Easy with Geonetwork
- Kate Young, Janine Aquino – Pimp My Drone
- Denise Hills, Kim Hines, Steve Diggs, Ismael Simley – Questionable Community Continuity
- Sam Silva (Student Award) – Understanding Vegetation Through Social Media
- Ed Flathers (Student Award) – Meanwhile, in dataland
- Tammy Glover (Teacher Award) – Can we do… Sustainable?
- Kalo Haslem (Teacher Award) – The use of STEM and Drones in the Middle School Classroom to Assist Student Learning
2015
- Soren Scott – A Github Badging System
- Wade Bishop – Harvesting Information Partnerships for Geospatial data Education and Outreach (HIPGEO)
- Shelley Olds – Interactive Interface To Explore Natural Hazards And Vulnerability In Coastal Communities
- Sarah Ramdeen (student award) – Stewardship of physical data, Use case and community engagement
- Sophie Hou (student award) – Roadmap for the Next Generation Data Management Training Modules
- Sean Barberie (student award) – HumanHAB
- Brandon Whitehead (student award) – Semantic models for the ESIP community
2014
- Bruce Caron, Adam Shepherd – Working Group Syndicated Content Tool
- Kaijian Xu – Rich Semantic Annotation for Science Media Repositories
- Kelly Monteleone – Converting mb-system Files in Windows and Apple
- Kevin Dobbs – Leveraging the Power of Google Earth Engine to Derive High Quality Water Reference Data for Flood Disaster Decision Support
- Kyle Nelson – Enhancing and Educating with the WxSat Mobile App
- Lee Hyokyung – HDFCRAFT – Making Earth Data Fun!
- Matt Ferrito – ToolMatch Extension
- Linyun Fu, Massimo Di Stephano – Towards Automatic Provenance Capturing for Research Publications
2013
- Annette Schloss – Demonstration of a mobile application for estimating forest canopy closure using digital photographs
- Denise Hills – Making the Case for Data Stewardship Use Cases: A Community Building and Engagement Exercise
- Jin Guang Zheng – Semantic Similarity Computation and Concept Mapping in Earth and Environmental Science
- Chunming Peng (student award) – Agricultural Drought Information Cluster
- Emily Northrup (student winner) – Aquaponics For Triage and Emergency Response (AFTER)
Other FUNding Friday-inspired projects:
- CheapStix: Distributing and Running OPeNDAP servers on a Virtual Machine
- 1-Click Satellite Data: A Java applet that let’s you display current satellite data anywhere in the world with one simple mouse click.
2012
- Tanya Flores – Climate Change – One Student @ a Time
- Xiaogang Ma – Exploratory visualization of earth science data in a Semantic Web context
- Bruce Caron – Preprint Service with Open Review
- Vicky Wolf – Revitalizing Forgotten Data: Bringing 40 years of Glacial Photography into the Digital Age
- Sarah Ramdeen, Angela Murillo (student award) – Assessing Skills, Access and Trust of Data Use and Reuse within the ESIP community
- Reid Boehm – Interactive Federation Network Analysis Tool
2011
- Annette Schloss – Digital Earth Watch in Action
- Karl Benedict, Rafael Ameller – Enhanced Collaborative Disaster Management Through Interoperable Data Visualization
- Tom Narock and Eric Rozell – Linked Open Research Data for Earth and Space Science Informatics
- Jesse Roberts (student award) – Engaging Climate Change Learners in Public School Settings
- Oleg Aulov (student award) – Self-Organizing Maps for Automated Oil-Spill Detection
- Demonstrating preservation connections using OAI-ORE
2010
- Weiguo Han – Sharing and Analyzing Dem Datasets through DEM Explorer (project link)
- Rebecca Reid, Margaret Mooney – Continuing the Connections
- Rahul Ramachandran – Can you build an iPhone app without needing a developer?
- Marlene Taylor (student award) – Beaver Creek Project
- Matthew Rogan (student award) – Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder Charts Project (poster)
- Annie Byrnes (student award) – State Tectonics Project
- Qunying Huang, Min Sun, Jing Li (student award) – Spatial Cloud Project
2009
- Erin Robinson – Air Twitter (project link)
- World Ocean Atlas Upgrade
- Stay Connected
- Eliza Bradley, Michael Toomey (student award) – PanOpt project
2008
- Bruce Caron – Helpr
- Karl Benedict – WMS/KML Interoperability Development (github)
- Tamara Ledley – Earth Exploration Toolbook Chapter on Air Quality