2026 July ESIP Meeting: Directory

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.

Featured Speakers

Madeline Berger

Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology

PhD student

Marshall Ma

University of Idaho

Associate Professor

Fa Li

UT Austin

Assistant Professor

Dev Niyogi

Jackson School of Geosciences

Professor

Speakers

Walter Alvarado

Ed Armstrong

Aimee Barciauskas

Development Seed

Software Engineer

Chris Battisto

Mikala Beig

Carolina Berys-Gonzalez

CCHDO/SIO/UCSD

Data Manager

Mathew Biddle

NOAA/IOOS

Physical Scientist

Joshua Birkebak

Chris Blanton

David Blodgett

U.S. Geological Survey

Civil Engineer

Courtney Bouchard

NESDIS NCEI

Oceanographer

Angela Brown

NESDIS OCS/Cloud Management Branch

Data Management Specialist

Jessica Burnett

NASA

Program Executive

Amanda Butler

Bruce Caron

New Media Studio

Executive Director

ZhiQiang Chen

Tyler Christensen

NOAA / NESDIS / Office of Common Services (OCS)

Data Architect

Jeanette Clark

NCEAS

Research Software Engineer

Megan Compton

Federal Geographic Data Committee

Senior NSDI Advisor

Sarah Cooley

Alycia Crall

Earth Science Information Partners

Community Director

Thomas Cram

NCAR

Software Engineer

Ethan Davis

NSF Unidata - UCAR

Software Engineer

Vandana Desai

Christopher Durachka

Sabrina Ewald

The University of Texas at Austin - Choose Energy K-12 Outreach Program

Program Manager for Education Outreach and Training

Matt Fisher

Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment @ UC Berkeley

Community Manager & Software Engineer

Tim Frankstone

SSAI/NASA

User Development Specialist

Rich Frazier

United States Geological Survey, Federal Geographic Data Committee

Senior Advisor Geospatial Technology

Aaron Friesz

ESIP

Technical Community Manager

Aaron Friesz

Earth Science Information Partners

Technical Community Manager

Diane Fritz

Mike Gangl

Maggi Glasscoe

University of Alabama in Huntsville

Researcher

Don Haas

The Center for Climate Change Education at PRI

Director of Teacher Programming

Ted Habermann

Metadata Game Changers

CTO

Harsha Hampapura

NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

Scientist

Denise Hills

Advanced Resources International

Project Manager

Eli Holmes

NOAA Fisheries

NMFS Open Science lead

Coral Howe

Leslie Hsu

U.S. Geological Survey

physical scientist

Kelsey Huelsman

Elisabeth Huffer

Lingua Logica

Information Systems Engineer

Nick Jarboe

Jarboe Enterprises

Program Manager

Dave Jones

StormCenter Communications

CEO

Matt Jones

University of California Santa Barbara

Director of Informatics R&D

Max Jones

Development Seed

Cloud Engineer

Bandana Kar

DOE NREL

Danny Kaufman

NASA ASDC / Booz Allen Hamilton

TEMPO Lead Data Scientist

Stefanie Kethers

ARDC

Program Manager (Data Challenges)

Danie Kinkade

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Information Systems Specialist / Director BCO-DMO

Inger Kittle

NOAA/NESDIS

Physical Scientist

Jens Klump

CSIRO

Group Leader Exploration

Lauren Koenig

U.S. Geological Survey

Data Scientist

Tom Kralidis

Joseph Lane

University of Memphis

Graduate Student

Joan Jungbin Lee

trubel&co

Associate Director of Programs

Kerstin Lehnert

Columbia University

Doherty Senior Research Scientist

Paul Lemieux

NOAA / NESDIS / National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

Data Archivist

Chris Lenhardt

NSF NCAR

EOL DMS Facility Manager

Cory Levinson

Chris Little

Met Office

IT Fellow

Owen Littlejohns

NASA EED-3 / INNOVIM

Transformation Train System Architect

Kelly Lockhart

Luis Lopez

Julia Lowndes

Openscapes

Director

Sara Lubkin

NASA/ESDIS

DAAC Engineer

Raleigh Martin

U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)

Program Director

Nico Matentzoglou

Carla McAuliffe

Hazel Mebius

Sarah Menassian

DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI

IT Specialist - Data Scientist

Nazila Merati

DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI

Physical Scientist

Brian Meyer

NESDIS/NCEI/COGSD/GSB

Associate Scientist

Bojan Milinic

Debasish Mishra

Texas A&M University

PhD Student

Andrew Mitchell

NASA

Deputy Chief Science Data Officer

Jessica Morgan

NOAA

NESDIS Assisstant Chief Data Officer

Sherrie Morris

Monica Morrison

Tyquan Morton

Susan Mullally

Lynn Neakrase

Aimee Neeley

Doug Newman

NASA/ESDIS

Science Data Systems Lead

David Nilsen

Sarah O'Connor

NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI

Physical Scientist

Mike O'Donnell

USGS

Nick Okafor

trubel&co

Executive Director

Steve Olding

NASA ESCO

ESCO Team Lead

Steve Olson

NWS/STI/WIAD

Physical Scientist

Ge Peng

SSAI/NASA ESDIS

Chief Research Scientist

Frank Pichel

Katherine Pitts

STC for NOAA/NESDIS/GEO Program Science

Product Quality Scientist

Joy Pochatila

Shawn Polson

LASP

Research Software Engineer

Aparna Radhakrishnan

OAR NOAA GFDL

Natalie Raia

University of Arizona

Earth Science Cyberinfrastructure Research Principal

Douglas Rao

CISESS-NC/NOAA NCEI

Senior Research Scholar

Erik Rasmussen

John Relph

NESDIS NCEI

Data Archaeologist

Rebecca Ringuette

Heliophysics Digital Resource Library at NASA Goddard

Principal Open Science Scientist

Carol Ruchti

NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Scientist

Bobby Saba

Charles Schmitt

NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Director, Office of Data Science

Jennifer Schopf

University of Texas at Austin / TACC

Doug Schuster

NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

Section Manager, Information Science and Services Section

Martin Seul

CUAHSI

Technical Director

Chirag Shah

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Environmental Data Science Engineer

Chris Sherwood

Cogan Shimizu

Rupesh Shrestha

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Morgan Silverman

Ingo Simonis

Emanuel Söding

Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration @ GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre

Data Manager

Shelley Stall

American Geophysical Union

Vice President, Open Science Leadership

Geoffrey Stano

University of Alabama in Huntsville

GHRC DAAC Scientist

Amy Steiker

NSIDC

Data Services

Karen Stocks

University of California San Diego

Director, Geological Data Center

Chris Stoner

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Open Environmental and Geospatial Data Lead

Jay Su

NOAA/NESDIS/ACIO

IT Specialist

Sherry Sun

Laura Super

Nick Susemiehl

Talisha Sutton-Kennedy

Jeremy Tandy

Met Office

Principal Fellow - Technology

Brian Terry

Analytical Mechanics Associates

Anne Thessen

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Associate Professor

Sean Thiboldeaux

Andi Thomas

SSAI/ NASA

Project Manager/ NASA ESDS WSCT Lead

Andrea Thomer

University of Arizona, College of Information Science

Associate Professor

Michele Thornton

ORNL

Geospatial Professional

Kathe Todd-Brown

University of Florida

Assistant professor

Gian Villamil-Otero

NOAA/NESDIS/OCS/PMD

Physical Scientist

Otto Wagner

Matthew Warke

Brandon Waters

Trevor White

Flexible Array of Radars and Mesonets

Research Engineer IV

Brandon Whitehead

University of Florida

Graduate student

Stephanie M. Wingo

NASA ODSI / UAH

ADMG Team Lead

Jacquie Witte

NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory

Scientist/Data Manager

Juhn Wu

Lesley Wyborn

Australian Research Data Commons

Data Strategist

Oguz Yetkin

Steve Young

EPA (retired); Innovate Inc.

Senior business consultant

Melissa Zweng

NESDIS OCS/PMD

Chief, Product Implementation Branch

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