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

Teacher Workshop Session: Explore Resources from the Choose Energy Program

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

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Sign-in & Notes

This session introduces Energy Excursions, an online curriculum for high school that helps you easily include energy topics into your classroom to meet required content standards; to showcase the integrated nature of STEM using applied energy topics, and to provide your students with online curriculum that covers the various levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, culminating in a design challenge for your students. The curriculum provides a window into the interdisciplinary nature of the skills, knowledge and creativity required to provide energy to a global society, as well as an understanding of the challenges that make energy projects exciting and the oversight and considerations that keep these projects safe for humans and their environment.

Outcome/Goals:
● Explore Energy Excursion units
● Engage in online activities
● Consider how you might incorporate an Energy Excursion into your teaching

Speakers

Sabrina Ewald

Program Manager for Education Outreach and Training, The University of Texas at Austin - Choose Energy K-12 Outreach Program

Sabrina Ewald is the Choose Energy program manager for education outreach and training. She spent 23 years in secondary science education teaching earth science and environmental science courses. She spent the past 18 years in Frisco ISD teaching AP Environmental Science, Earth and... Read More →

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
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Teacher Workshop

2:00pm CDT

Teacher Workshop Session: Data Jamboree: Explore Data and Data Tools from NOAA, NASA, USGS, AGI, EarthScope, PRI, and More

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT

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Sign-in & Notes

Much environmental, biological Earth science data for science teaching is freely available online. We will explore and share a variety of datasets and tools including visualization of 3-D data using MERGE Cubes! Some resources we will share include PRI’s Earth@Home, NOAA’s Data in the Classroom, NASA’s MyNASA Data and more.

Outcome/Goals:
● Explore data and data tools from a variety of ESIP partners
● Engage in online activities
● Consider how you might incorporate these activities into your teaching

Speakers

Don Haas

Director of Teacher Programming, The Center for Climate Change Education at PRI

My work in public outreach, teacher education, teacher professional development and curriculum materials development marries deep understandings of how people learn with deep understandings of the Earth system. I am a past president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers... Read More →

Carla McAuliffe

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
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Teacher Workshop

4:00pm CDT

Teacher Workshop Session: Civiscape: AI Powered, Democratized Earth Data for K-12 Education

Thursday July 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT

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Sign-in & Notes

Education is most powerful when it's personal. This 90 minute session introduces CivicScape, a digital learning platform that builds place-based, standards-aligned lessons where students investigate real data from their community—air quality, housing, health, and more—no data or GIS experience required. With CivicScape and Earth data, classroom lessons stop being abstract and students start seeing themselves as agents of change in their own communities.

Outcome/Goals:
● Navigate CivicScape to identify and analyze geospatial datasets relevant to their
local community and classroom context
● Design a place-based, geospatial learning sequence that meets NGSS science and
engineering practices, with emphasis on asking questions, analyzing data, and
constructing explanations
● Facilitate student exploration of local environmental and social data in ways that
center diverse community experiences and promote equity

Speakers

Nick Okafor

Executive Director, trubel&co

Nick Okafor (he/him) is the founder of trubel&co, a nonprofit venture studio that champions underserved youth to tackle complex societal problems using data, design, and technology. trubel&co build youth power in the digital age by integrated career technical education with experiential learning and liberatory design. A strategist... Read More →