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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11:00am CDT

Real-Time Field Science Applications

Tuesday July 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT

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Collaborative Notes

Earth Science Field Campaigns require applications and tools that assist with real-time tracking, products, and documentation. Various organizations have developed applications with similar capabilities. This session brings together managers and software engineers who manage these applications to learn from each other, enabling each entity to build better applications. Applications to be discussed include: FARM Guru (real-time mobile radar data displays), ARM Field Campaign Dashboard (real-time data plots and documentation), NASA FCX (field data product viewer), SASSI (severe weather comms and real-time data), and NSF NCAR EOL Field Catalog (real-time field campaign platform tracking, documentation, and data product viewer). Session will close with a 25-minute panel discussion.

Audience
ESIP Envirosensing Cluster members; anyone who works in earth observing science and wants to learn about real-time field science applications

Speakers

Carol Ruchti

Scientist, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Chris Lenhardt

EOL DMS Facility Manager, NSF NCAR

Chirag Shah

Environmental Data Science Engineer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jacquie Witte

Scientist/Data Manager, NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory

Geoffrey Stano

GHRC DAAC Scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Trevor White

Research Engineer IV, Flexible Array of Radars and Mesonets

Victor Tiradoegas

Tuesday July 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
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Community, Education, & Capacity Building

2:00pm CDT

Developing Community Recommendations for Enhanced Data Impact through Governance and Stewardship

Tuesday July 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT

Pecos

Collaborative Notes

This session is the third and final in a series on how connecting data governance and stewardship efforts across organizations can enhance interoperability and maximize impact of Earth science data. A report from the July 2025 ESIP session has been published to ESIP Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17990054). In this final session, organizers will share analysis and progress since then and invite participants to contribute to the development of community recommendations for the Earth science community on enhancing data impact through improved interoperability.

Audience
Data stewards, developers, architects, policy-makers, and anyone interested in improving interoperability of their research data through data governance and stewardship practices

Speakers

Ge Peng

Chief Research Scientist, SSAI/NASA ESDIS

Emanuel Söding

Data Manager, Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration @ GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre

Douglas Rao

Senior Research Scholar, CISESS-NC/NOAA NCEI

I am currently a Senior Research Scholar for AI/ML at NC Institute for Climate Studies, affiliated with NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information and NOAA Center for AI through Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies.

Jessica Burnett

Program Executive, NASA

Sara Lubkin

DAAC Engineer, NASA/ESDIS

Tuesday July 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
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Data Stewardship, Governance, & Resilience

4:00pm CDT

Organising Hybrid Meetings: Making Them Worthwhile Rather Than Striving for Perfect

Tuesday July 28, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT

Pecos

Collaborative Notes

Hybrid meetings became common after COVID-19 lockdowns lifted, but many conferences have returned to fully in-person formats, which reduces inclusivity. Travel costs are particularly high for those from the Global South, and many people face restrictions such as caring responsibilities or health issues. This session works with participants to develop: (1) a toolbox of approaches and techniques that work well in hybrid meetings; and (2) a structured list of approaches to a good hybrid meeting covering technology, facilitation, and logistics. Includes a short talk from an EGU representative on how EGU makes hybrid meetings work.

Audience
Anyone looking for approaches to make conferences and events more accessible, participatory, and inclusive — both as organisers and as participants

Speakers

Lesley Wyborn

Data Strategist, Australian Research Data Commons

Jens Klump

Group Leader Exploration, CSIRO

“The really exciting part is not about putting labels on things, but about what you can do when you put machine learning to work on the labelled data.” (https://www.auscope.org.au/posts/2020/12/18/introducing-jens).
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