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

National Snow and Ice Data Center

Data support specialist

Ryan Berkheimer

DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI

Physical Scientist

Carolina Berys-Gonzalez

CCHDO/SIO/UCSD

Data Manager

Mathew Biddle

NOAA/IOOS

Physical Scientist

Joshua Birkebak

Chris Blanton

NOAA-GFDL

Physical Scientist

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

Ian Carroll

NASA/GSFC, UMBC

Associate Research Scientist

ZhiQiang Chen

Nino Chkhenkeli

USDA

Ag Data Commons and Scientific Research Data Services Lead

Jeanette Clark

NCEAS

Research Software Engineer

Sarah Cooley

Alycia Crall

Earth Science Information Partners

Community Director

Thomas Cram

NCAR

Software Engineer

Steve Crawford

NASA

Program Executive

Megan Cromwell

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service

Assisstant Chief Data Officer

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

Ileana Fenwick

Openscapes

Team Member

Joe Fillingham

NOAA

NOAA Data Governance Lead and ACDO

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 Director

Diane Fritz

NSIDC

Data Support Specialist

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

USGS

Geospatial Analyst (Physical Scientist)

Leslie Hsu

U.S. Geological Survey

Physical Scientist

Kelsey Huelsman

Elisabeth Huffer

Lingua Logica

Information Systems Engineer

Alexis Hunzinger

NASA GES DISC / ADNET Systems, Inc.

User needs support scientist

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

Daniel Kaufman

NASA ASDC / Booz Allen Hamilton

TEMPO Lead Data Scientist

Stefanie Kethers

ARDC

Program Manager (Data Challenges)

Darcee Killpack

USGS

Acting Executive Director of FGDC

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

UC Davis

Software Consultant / Soils and Biogeochemistry MSc

Mike Liddel

NOAA/NMFS

NOAA Assistant Chief Data Officer for Fisheries

Chris Little

Met Office

IT Fellow

Owen Littlejohns

NASA EED-3 / INNOVIM

Transformation Train System Architect

Kelly Lockhart

Science Explorer, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Technical Lead

Luis Lopez

NSIDC

Research Software Engineer

Julia Lowndes

Openscapes

Director

Sara Lubkin

NASA/ESDIS

DAAC Engineer

Althea Marks

University of Washington

Data Scientist

Erin Martin

Raleigh Martin

U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)

Program Director

Nico Matentzoglou

Carla McAuliffe

Teaching About Planet Earth (TAPE)

Senior Educational Researcher and President

Hazel Mebius

Sarah Menassian

DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI

IT Specialist - Data Scientist

Matthew Mendoza

Nazila Merati

DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI

Physical Scientist

Brian Meyer

NOAA NCEI

Associate Scientist

Bojan Milinic

Debasish Mishra

Texas A&M University

PhD Student

Ronny A. Hernández Mora

Openscapes

Jessica Morgan

NOAA

NESDIS Assistant Chief Data Officer

Sherrie Morris

Science and Technology Corporation

NASA ARSET Training Coordinator

Monica Morrison

NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

Scientist IV

Tyquan Morton

Susan Mullally

Vishu Nandigam

San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego

Lynn Neakrase

Aimee Neeley

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Mission Applications Lead for ICESat-2

Doug Newman

NASA/ESDIS

Science Data Systems Lead

Tom Nicholas

David Nilsen

Sarah O'Connor

NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI

Physical Scientist

Nick Okafor

trubel&co

Executive Director

Steve Olding

NASA ESDIS / SSAI

ESCO Team Lead & DGB Co-chair

Steve Olson

NWS/STI/WIAD

Physical Scientist

Mike O'Donnell

USGS

Biologist

Xiaohua Pan

Adnet System Inc.

Principal Atmospheric Scientist

Mark Parsons

American Geophysical Union

Consultant

Ge Peng

SSAI/NASA ESDIS

Chief Research Scientist

Frank Pichel

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Senior Advisor

Katherine Pitts

STC for NOAA/NESDIS/GEO Program Science

Product Quality Scientist

Shawn Polson

LASP

Research Software Engineer

Paul Przyborski

NASA GSFC/SSAI

Development Lead

Aparna Radhakrishnan

OAR NOAA GFDL

Natalie Raia

University of Arizona

Earth Science Cyberinfrastructure Research Principal

Douglas Rao

CISESS-NC/NOAA NCEI

Senior Research Scholar

John Relph

NESDIS NCEI

Data Archaeologist

Justin Rice

NASA/ESDIS

Rebecca Ringuette

Heliophysics Digital Resource Library at NASA Goddard

Senior Open Science Scientist

Erin Robinson

Metadata Game Changers LLC

CEO

Carol Ruchti

NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Scientist

Megan Rush

KBR (USGS Contractor)

Landsat Data Manager

Bobby Saba

Charles Schmitt

NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Director, Office of Data Science

Jennifer Schopf

University of Texas at Austin / TACC

Science Liaison, Leadership Class Computing Facility

Doug Schuster

NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

Interim Director, Computational and Information Systems Lab

Martin Seul

CUAHSI

Lead of Software Engineering (Acting)

Chirag Shah

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Environmental Data Science Engineer

Ethan Shavers

USGS

CEGIS Section Chief

Chris Sherwood

US Geological Survey

Research oceanographer

Cogan Shimizu

Rupesh Shrestha

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Rich Signell

Open Science Computing, LLC

Principal

Morgan Silverman

Analytical Mechanics Associates/ NASA Langley Research Center

Data Scientist

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

Amy Steiker

National Snow and Ice Data Center

DAAC Tools and Services Manager

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

U.S. Geological Survey

Andrea Thomer

University of Arizona, College of Information Science

Associate Professor

Michele Thornton

ORNL

Geospatial Professional

Victor Tiradoegas

Kathe Todd-Brown

University of Florida

Assistant professor

Matt Tricomi

FGDC (C)

Geospatial Architect/SME

Gian Villamil-Otero

NOAA/NESDIS/OCS/PMD

Physical Scientist

Otto Wagner

Matthew Warke

Taylor & Francis

Senior Publisher

Brandon Waters

U.S. Geological Survey - Colorado Water Science Center

Hydrologic Technician - Network Integrations & Innovation

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

John Wu

Space Telescope Science Institute

Associate Astronomer | Applied AI Scientist

Juhn Wu

Lesley Wyborn

Australian Research Data Commons

Data Strategist

Oguz Yetkin

Steve Young

EPA (retired); Innovate Inc.

Senior business consultant

Jake Zappala

Hailiang Zhang

NASA GSFC

Software engineer