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

Data Preservation in a Time of Uncertainty

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

RH 4.308

Collaborative Notes

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at UT Austin supports large-scale compute and data storage across all areas of science, with the NSF-supported Leadership Class Computing Facility (LCCF) now coming online. NCAR approached TACC to implement a more effective disaster recovery approach than storing tapes in a fireproof vault, leading to a transfer of 15 PB of data over R&E networks beginning February 2026. This session details the preliminary design work, technological tradeoffs weighed, and how transfers of this scale can be accomplished and become commonplace. It will also discuss how TACC resources are available to the broader ESIP community.

Audience
Council of Data Facilities representatives; researchers or project leads working with significant data resources; representatives from high performance networking providers, NSF-sponsored computing centers, and universities with large-scale computing centers and data repositories

Speakers

Jennifer Schopf

Science Liaison, Leadership Class Computing Facility, University of Texas at Austin / TACC

Dr. Jennifer M. Schopf, Science Liaison for the LCCF, has been a member of the TACC leadership team since 2022. In her previous role at Indiana University, she built the team that ensured international data sharing was fast and effective for a broad range of major facility partnerships... Read More →

Thomas Cram

Software Engineer, NCAR

Doug Schuster

Interim Director, Computational and Information Systems Lab, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

Tuesday July 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
RH 4.308

Data Stewardship, Governance, & Resilience

2:00pm CDT

Virtual Stores: Bridging Archival Formats with Cloud-Native Access (Part 1)

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

RH 4.308

Collaborative Notes

Virtual store technology enables network-optimized access to archival file formats and is gaining traction at large data providers such as NASA. This two-part session focuses on knowledge sharing and community building for anyone adopting virtual store technology.

Part 1 will feature the following presentations on virtual store technology:

Tom Nicholas — Virtual Stores: From theory to production
Eli Holmes — NOAA ocean model use case + tooling for scientists
Hailiang Zhang – VirtualiZarr Evaluation and Deployment at GES DISC
Max Jones — Metadata considerations in building stores
Luis Lopez — Accessibility for end users via earthaccess
James Gallagher and Miguel Jimenez — Exploring chunk manifests in the Cloud Computing Cluster

We also hope you will join us for the Part 2 working session.

Audience: Data engineers, data-related program managers, cloud data users

Speakers

Aimee Barciauskas

Software Engineer, Development Seed

Owen Littlejohns

Transformation Train System Architect, NASA EED-3 / INNOVIM

Daniel Kaufman

TEMPO Lead Data Scientist, NASA ASDC / Booz Allen Hamilton

Chris Battisto

Max Jones

Cloud Engineer, Development Seed

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 →

Tuesday July 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
RH 4.308

Cloud-Native & Data Infrastructure

4:00pm CDT

Virtual Stores: Bridging Archival Formats with Cloud-Native Access (Part 2)

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

RH 4.308

Collaborative Notes

Virtual stores enable network-optimized access to archival file formats and are gaining traction at large data providers such as NASA. The goal of this session is knowledge sharing and community building for anyone adopting virtual store technology.

Part 2 of the 2-part Virtual Stores session will be a working session. Groups will form around the following topics: agentic coding for the development of virtual stores (led by Rich Signell), ask me anything (AMA) with Max Jones and Tom Nicholas, and a discussion about how virtual stores fit into the data system for large data providers such as those present at ESIP (facilitated by Aimee Barciauskas). Space will also be given to walk-on topics.

Audience
Data engineers, data-related program managers, cloud data users

Speakers