2026 July ESIP Meeting: Full Schedule

We are a home for Earth science data and computing professionals. Our sessions bring together the community for hands-on, interdisciplinary deep dives as we explore "Bridging Divides: Data, Technology, Community" this year. Learn more about this theme on the ESIP Meetings page.

Session and plenary recordings will be published on the ESIP YouTube Channel.

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1:00pm CDT

Openscape Hackday

Monday July 27, 2026 1:00pm - 6:00pm CDT

Sign-in & Notes

Purpose
This in-person hackday is about how we’re supporting scientists with infrastructure. A lot of hacking is not hands-on coding. It’s hacking on decisions. It’s seeing how each other works. Asking each other questions about interoperability. It’s surfacing friction - which friction lies in the tech and which lies in the social? We know earthaccess has transformed the way people access NASA Earthdata. It’s technically possible to do this with data across agencies like NOAA, USGS. What would that look like? We want to identify what we can move forward after the hackday. What problem do you think needs solving?

This is a followup to our FUNding Friday event (thank you ESIP!)

At the hackday itself
We’ll kick things off with a friendly showcase to orient people:
- How to use earthaccess with NASA data (Amy Steiker)
- earthaccess with virtual datasets (data masquerading as cloud-native) (Luis Lopez)
- Point-collocation with remote-sensed plus buoy data - this is hard! (Eli Holmes)

Right now (before ESIP)
We want you to tell us: What problem do you think needs solving? Please share your ideas now in this Monday Hackday - Ideas Doc using the your idea template. This is the one and only place to suggest, comment, ask questions, prior to the Monday hackday. Based on these asynchronous conversations, we’ll design collaborative breakouts for the hackday itself.

Speakers

Amy Steiker

Data Services, NSIDC

Eli Holmes

NMFS Open Science lead, NOAA Fisheries

I have been involved in training in statistics and ocean data computing for most of my career. I am currently lead of NMFS Open Science and in this role, I facilitate and run trainings in computing, data access and statistics for NOAA Fisheries. I am co-lead of the Inter-agency... Read More →

Luis Lopez

Interested in making things simpler for scientists, all things cloud native and remote sensing.

Julia Lowndes

Director, Openscapes

Dr. Julia Stewart Lowndes is Openscapes founding director and co-leads NASA Openscapes and NOAA Fisheries Openscapes projects. I am a marine ecologist working at the intersection of actionable science, data science, and open science. My main focus is mentoring teams to develop technical... Read More →

Monday July 27, 2026 1:00pm - 6:00pm CDT

Pre-Meeting Workshop