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The Merge blog brings together ESIP news, guest posts, and #EarthScienceData stories.
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Guest Blog: The Power of Soil Data
There are about 30 Collaboration Areas in the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) community. Each one focuses on a specific domain or technical challenge – like soil data. The Soil Ontology and Informatics Cluster harmonizes soil data...
Guest Blog: Teamwork, Military Training, and the Skills Needed for Data Science Jobs
In his guest blog, Community Fellow Chad Lanctot shares how two decades in the Coast Guard prepared him for a transition into civilian data science jobs. During his time as a graduate student at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, Lanctot served...
FUNding Friday: Microfunding Marker Magic
Curiosity and openness are core to the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) community. One of the more playful initiatives at ESIP is a microfunding competition called FUNding Friday. Here are the 2023 projects plus short write ups from each....
Guest Blog: Two Waves of Global W”o”rming
Kyungsoo Yoo is a pedologist who studies earthworm impacts on soils and was a 2022 Ignite@AGU speaker, co-hosted by NASA’s Earth Science Division and Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP). In his guest blog, Yoo builds off his Ignite@AGU talk...
Water and Fire: ESIP Lab Awards Support Innovation and Learning
Innovation and applied knowledge is core to the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) community. Each year, the ESIP Lab funds pilot projects to expand the impact of Earth science data. For the 2023 cohort, researchers focus on technology and...
ESIP Partner Assembly Endorses the Santa Barbara Charter
The Partner Assembly of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) endorsed the Santa Barbara Charter, which seeks to broaden participation in environmental data science. ESIP is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive space. The Santa Barbara...
Meet 2023 Raskin Scholar Alexis Garretson
Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) has awarded the 2023 Robert G. Raskin Scholarship to Alexis Garretson, a graduate student at Tufts University and The Jackson Laboratory as well as a data scientist for Anecdata.org. The scholarship is...
NASA UNBOUND: ESIP Hosts Air Quality Data Workshops
During the Spring 2023, Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) brought together data users from 14 organizations to discuss barriers to and new applications of NASA’s air quality data. The report on the three-part workshop series is now...
Hybrid Meetings: Coffee, Snacks, Cameras, Mics and More…
Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) hosts twice-annual meetings – and the 2023 July ESIP Meeting will be a hybrid meeting: in-person in Burlington, Vermont, and online everywhere. In her guest blog, ESIP Executive Director Susan Shingledecker...
ESIP Community Celebrates 2023 Award Winners
The Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is an organization of organizations. There are no individual members, however, individuals and member organizations often step up as excellent data stewards, community organizers and enthusiastic...
Guest Blog: The Power of Soil Data
There are about 30 Collaboration Areas in the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) community. Each one focuses on a specific domain or technical challenge – like soil data. The Soil Ontology and Informatics Cluster harmonizes soil data...
Guest Blog: Teamwork, Military Training, and the Skills Needed for Data Science Jobs
In his guest blog, Community Fellow Chad Lanctot shares how two decades in the Coast Guard prepared him for a transition into civilian data science jobs. During his time as a graduate student at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, Lanctot served...
FUNding Friday: Microfunding Marker Magic
Curiosity and openness are core to the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) community. One of the more playful initiatives at ESIP is a microfunding competition called FUNding Friday. Here are the 2023 projects plus short write ups from each....
Guest Blog: Two Waves of Global W”o”rming
Kyungsoo Yoo is a pedologist who studies earthworm impacts on soils and was a 2022 Ignite@AGU speaker, co-hosted by NASA’s Earth Science Division and Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP). In his guest blog, Yoo builds off his Ignite@AGU talk...
ESIP Partner Assembly Endorses the Santa Barbara Charter
The Partner Assembly of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) endorsed the Santa Barbara Charter, which seeks to broaden participation in environmental data science. ESIP is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive space. The Santa Barbara...
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Merge: ESIP News and Stories
Merge brings together ESIP news, Community Fellow blogs, guest posts from our Earth science data community and stories from our 30+ Collaboration Areas and ESIP Partners.
Head over to the ESIP YouTube channel to catch our playlists and recordings and the ESIP Figshare Repository for slides, posters, white papers, and other collaboration outputs highlighted in our stories.
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