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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.
Tuesday, July 28
 

7:30am CDT

Breakfast
Tuesday July 28, 2026 7:30am - 8:30am CDT
Zlotnik Foyer
Registration & breakfast

Audience
All meeting attendees
Tuesday July 28, 2026 7:30am - 8:30am CDT
Zlotnik Foyer
  Meals & Breaks
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8:30am CDT

Welcome & Opening Plenary
Tuesday July 28, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am CDT
Zlotnik Ballroom (1,2,3,4)
Sign-in & Notes
Welcome to the 2026 July ESIP Meeting!

Audience
All meeting attendees
Speakers
avatar for Sarah Cooley

Tuesday July 28, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am CDT
Zlotnik Ballroom (1,2,3,4)
  Plenary
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10:00am CDT

Break
Tuesday July 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Rowling Hall Floor 3 Foyer
Break & socialize

Audience
All meeting attendees
Tuesday July 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Rowling Hall Floor 3 Foyer
  Meals & Breaks
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11:00am CDT

ESDIS AI/ML Strategies
Tuesday July 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
We find ourselves in a position where the near-exponential growth of our archive is causing several problems: our archive grows faster than our community's ability to navigate it, and faster than our ability to manage it. To combat this, on the user side, researchers increasingly work through AI-assisted tools. If NASA data is not findable and usable in those environments, we cede our role as the...
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Speakers
avatar for Doug Newman

Doug Newman

Science Data Systems Lead, NASA/ESDIS
NASA ESDIS Systems Engineer.

Tuesday July 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  AI & Intelligent Systems
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11:00am CDT

Modern Tools and Interoperable Workflows for Geospatial Discovery
Tuesday July 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
Building an open and collaborative geospatial community depends on creating opportunities to share emerging technologies, interoperable tools, and practical workflows. This session brings together participants of all experience levels to explore new approaches to analysis and data access while encouraging collaboration and idea sharing. Speakers and developers will showcase community-focused tools...
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Tuesday July 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  AI & Intelligent Systems
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11:00am CDT

Real-Time Field Science Applications
Tuesday July 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & 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...
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Carol Ruchti

Scientist, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

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Chris Lenhardt

EOL DMS Facility Manager, NSF NCAR
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Chirag Shah

Environmental Data Science Engineer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
avatar for Jacquie Witte

Jacquie Witte

Scientist/Data Manager, NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
avatar for Trevor White

Trevor White

Research Engineer IV, Flexible Array of Radars and Mesonets
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Geoffrey Stano

GHRC DAAC Scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville

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

Data Preservation in a Time of Uncertainty
Tuesday July 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & 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...
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Speakers
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Jennifer Schopf

University of Texas at Austin / TACC
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Thomas Cram

Software Engineer, NCAR
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Doug Schuster

Section Manager, Information Science and Services Section, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

Tuesday July 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Data Stewardship, Governance, & Resilience
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11:00am CDT

From Bespoke to Universal: How Standards Can Support NASA's Tool Convergence Effort
Tuesday July 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
This session will seek to bring tool developers together with metadata curators to explore how we can work together to make more data more usable through improved standards compliance and more robust metadata. Metadata curation, data product design, standards development, and software engineering are typically done by completely separate teams, but software that makes Earth science data accessible...
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Elisabeth Huffer

Information Systems Engineer, Lingua Logica

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Steve Olding

ESCO Team Lead, NASA ESCO
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Ge Peng

Chief Research Scientist, SSAI/NASA ESDIS
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Tuesday July 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Standards, Metadata, & Interoperability
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12:30pm CDT

Lunch
Tuesday July 28, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm CDT
Tejas Dining Room
Lunch & networking

Audience
All meeting attendees
Tuesday July 28, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm CDT
Tejas Dining Room
  Meals & Breaks
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2:00pm CDT

The National Spatial Data Infrastructure: Progress and the Path to a NextGeneration SDI Specification
Tuesday July 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
Accessing spatial data shouldn’t be this hard. Scientists routinely struggle to findcurrent, authoritative, and validated datasets across agencies and platforms. Thissession directly addresses those pain points by bringing together policy, technology,and community voices to focus on practical solutions that make data easier to find,access, and use.We will connect federal SDI governance,...
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Rich Frazier

Senior Advisor Geospatial Technology, United States Geological Survey, Federal Geographic Data Committee
Rich serves as the Technical Advisor for the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Secretariat. The FGDC leads and supports the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Strategy and spatial data policy development in the United States. The FGDC also coordinates with international organizations... Read More →
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Megan Compton

Senior NSDI Advisor, Federal Geographic Data Committee
As a leader in geospatial and tech, I’m driving the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)—basically, I’m mapping the future (literally). I manage the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC), guiding our brilliant members to tackle complex geospatial challenges, while... Read More →
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Tuesday July 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Cloud-Native & Data Infrastructure

2:00pm CDT

Virtual Stores: Bridging Archival Formats with Cloud-Native Access (Part 1)
Tuesday July 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & 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 features presentations from varied data producers within ESIP on how the technology is being adopted: pipeline systems, virtual...
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Speakers
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Aimee Barciauskas

Software Engineer, Development Seed
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Owen Littlejohns

Transformation Train System Architect, NASA EED-3 / INNOVIM
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Danny Kaufman

TEMPO Lead Data Scientist, NASA ASDC / Booz Allen Hamilton
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Max Jones

Cloud Engineer, Development Seed

Tuesday July 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Cloud-Native & Data Infrastructure
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2:00pm CDT

Failure Isn't Failing
Tuesday July 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
We hide our failures. Our resumes and CVs sing of our accomplishments, but not the twisted path we took to get there. In this session, three community leaders will proudly tell tales of their professional failures: the impact they had, what their response was, and with hindsight, what it might have been in a kinder universe. This session is offered in support of every researcher with imposter...
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Speakers
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Jennifer Schopf

University of Texas at Austin / TACC
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Denise Hills

Project Manager, Advanced Resources International
Long tail data, data preservation, connecting physical samples to digital information, geoscience policy, science communication.

ORCID:  0000-0001-9581-4944

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Tuesday July 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Community, Education, & Capacity Building
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2:00pm CDT

Developing Community Recommendations for Enhanced Data Impact through Governance and Stewardship
Tuesday July 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & 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...
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Speakers
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Ge Peng

Chief Research Scientist, SSAI/NASA ESDIS
avatar for Emanuel Söding

Emanuel Söding

Data Manager, Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration @ GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre
avatar for Douglas Rao

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.
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Jessica Burnett

Program Executive, NASA
avatar for Sara Lubkin

Sara Lubkin

DAAC Engineer, NASA/ESDIS

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

To PID or Not to PID: Advanced Topics in Physical Sample Data Curation
Tuesday July 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
The ESIP Physical Sample Curation Cluster recently published a guide for scientific authors on 'Publishing Open Research Using Physical Samples.' This interactive session builds on that work to spur new discussion on advanced topics in open research using physical samples, with the goal of identifying places for further best practices development. Three 8-minute presentations will showcase key...
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Speakers
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Natalie Raia

Earth Science Cyberinfrastructure Research Principal, University of Arizona
Natalie Raia is a Earth Science Cyberinfrastructure Research Scientist in the College of Information Science at the University of Arizona. She collaborates with library and information scientists, systems engineers, researchers, publishers, and academic societies to develop and drive... Read More →
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Andrea Thomer

Associate Professor, University of Arizona, College of Information Science
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Tuesday July 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Standards, Metadata, & Interoperability
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3:30pm CDT

Break
Tuesday July 28, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Rowling Hall Floor 3 Foyer
Break & socialize

Audience
All meeting attendees
Tuesday July 28, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Rowling Hall Floor 3 Foyer
  Meals & Breaks
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4:00pm CDT

Trusted Data and AI as a Potential Trusted Data Stream for Disasters
Tuesday July 28, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
This session addresses when and where data are available for disaster response and recovery efforts. It will discuss latency for data collection, formerly available services that have been discontinued and where archives exist, failures of early warning systems, and how AI can aid in response and recovery — including the pitfalls of relying on AI for analyzing disaster-related data. The session...
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Maggi Glasscoe

Researcher, University of Alabama in Huntsville
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Dave Jones

CEO, StormCenter Communications
GeoCollaborate, is an SBIR Phase III technology (Yes, its a big deal) that enables real-time data access through web services, sharing and collaboration across multiple platforms. We call GeoCollaborate a 'Collaborative Common Operating Picture' that empowers decision making, situational... Read More →
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Tuesday July 28, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  AI & Intelligent Systems
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4:00pm CDT

Virtual Stores: Bridging Archival Formats with Cloud-Native Access (Part 2)
Tuesday July 28, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
Part 2 of the Virtual Stores session. This working session has participants forming breakout groups, each with a lead, focused on: iterating on the virtual stores feasibility report; discussion topics such as how to integrate search with access and what standards are required (e.g. GeoZarr); and hands-on work building a virtual dataset. Virtual stores enable network-optimized access to archival...
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Speakers
avatar for Aimee Barciauskas

Aimee Barciauskas

Software Engineer, Development Seed
avatar for Owen Littlejohns

Owen Littlejohns

Transformation Train System Architect, NASA EED-3 / INNOVIM
avatar for Danny Kaufman

Danny Kaufman

TEMPO Lead Data Scientist, NASA ASDC / Booz Allen Hamilton
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Max Jones

Cloud Engineer, Development Seed

Tuesday July 28, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Cloud-Native & Data Infrastructure
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4:00pm CDT

Organising Hybrid Meetings: Making Them Worthwhile Rather Than Striving for Perfect
Tuesday July 28, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & 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...
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Speakers
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Lesley Wyborn

Data Strategist, Australian Research Data Commons
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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).
President of the International Geo Sample Number Implementati... Read More →
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Stefanie Kethers

Program Manager (Data Challenges), ARDC

Tuesday July 28, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Community, Education, & Capacity Building
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4:00pm CDT

Bridging Divides Through Data Rescue: Best Practices for Rescuing Long-Term Datasets
Tuesday July 28, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
Data rescue is the ultimate bridge between the scientific past, present, and future. It connects legacy records and multiple formats with AI/ML for digitization and cloud storage to serve a broader community needing long-term baseline data. This session covers data rescue relevant to any sector, with examples from earth sciences including natural systems and applied contexts (forestry,...
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Tuesday July 28, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Data Stewardship, Governance, & Resilience
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4:00pm CDT

The ESDIS Metadata and Data Quality Drive
Tuesday July 28, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
This session puts forward the case that high quality metadata leads to better tools and services, and that standardized data leads to less costly tools and services. The session tests two hypotheses: (1) improving metadata quality will improve the quality of tools and services; and (2) improving standardization of incoming data will reduce the cost of ingest, archive, and distribution....
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avatar for Doug Newman

Doug Newman

Science Data Systems Lead, NASA/ESDIS
NASA ESDIS Systems Engineer.

Tuesday July 28, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Standards, Metadata, & Interoperability
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5:00pm CDT

Welcome Reception
Tuesday July 28, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Zlotnik Foyer

Tuesday July 28, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Zlotnik Foyer
  General
 
Wednesday, July 29
 

7:30am CDT

Breakfast
Wednesday July 29, 2026 7:30am - 8:30am CDT
Tejas Dining Room
Registration & breakfast

Audience
All meeting attendees
Wednesday July 29, 2026 7:30am - 8:30am CDT
Tejas Dining Room
  Meals & Breaks
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8:30am CDT

Build an MCP Server for AWS Open Data Using Vibe Coding with Kiro (Part 1)
Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
In this hands-on workshop, participants learn how to build a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that can access the Registry of Open Data, using Vibe Coding with Kiro — with no manual coding required. Part 1 introduces MCP servers and the Registry of Open Data, demonstrates how conversations with Kiro become working code using vibe coding, and begins building tools to search and discover...
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avatar for Chris Stoner

Chris Stoner

AWS Open Environmental and Geospatial Data Lead, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am CDT
Location TBA
  AI & Intelligent Systems
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8:30am CDT

Closing the ARCO Adoption Gap: Modernizing Data Analysis Workflows
Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
Despite the growing availability of Analysis-Ready, Cloud-Optimized (ARCO) data, most of the Earth System Science community still relies on legacy download-and-analyze workflows. This session brings together data providers, software developers, and users to compare notes on what is actually moving the needle on adoption, with focus on interoperability across ARCO datasets from different providers....
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Speakers
avatar for Harsha Hampapura

Harsha Hampapura

Scientist, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Thomas Cram

Software Engineer, NCAR
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Matt Fisher

Community Manager & Software Engineer, Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment @ UC Berkeley
đź‘‹ I’m a Community Manager and Research Software Engineer at Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at UC Berkeley. I’m passionate about open source software, open science, and building culture and structure to help people feel safe and comfortable contributing to scientific... Read More →

Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am CDT
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  Cloud-Native & Data Infrastructure
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8:30am CDT

Bridging Human Silos: Setting Up Data-Centric Communities of Practice to Reach Across Divides
Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am CDT
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The session organizers are building communities of practice around ICESat-2 datasets by convening disciplinary-related data user groups to share pain points and solutions. This session invites the ESIP community to share experiences with building or participating in similar CoPs to create guidance for replicating and sustaining these human connection spaces. Organizers will share lessons learned...
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Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am CDT
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  Community, Education, & Capacity Building
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8:30am CDT

Federal Data Strategies: Successes and Opportunities for Bridging Divides
Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am CDT
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Sign-in & Notes
A continuation of sessions on Federal Data Strategies that started in 2023, this session is a venue for federal agencies to share opportunities for collaborations that will maximize the impact of investments in Earth science data resources. Federal agency representatives will address: emerging joint-agency opportunities in developing open data ecosystems; improving coordination among agencies in...
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Raleigh Martin

Program Director, U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
Raleigh L. Martin is a Program Director in the Directorate for Geosciences (NSF) at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Raleigh’s portfolio includes programs related to open science, data management, and computing in the geosciences.
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Leslie Hsu

physical scientist, U.S. Geological Survey
Coordinator of the USGS Community for Data Integration, Interim Director of the USGS Powell Center, and member of the USGS Science Data Management branch. https://github.com/hsu000001
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Andrew Mitchell

Deputy Chief Science Data Officer, NASA
Deputy Chief Science Data Officer within NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) supporting the modernization of data and computing systems for science and engineering across NASA in support of efficiency, sustainability, security, and scientific integrity.
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Charles Schmitt

Director, Office of Data Science, NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
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Jessica Morgan

NESDIS Assisstant Chief Data Officer, NOAA
Jessica is the Assistant Chief Data Officer (ACDO) of the NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), a senior expert advisor on scientific data management, responsible for: managing the agency’s inventory of satellite data and archived data holdings... Read More →

Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am CDT
Location TBA
  Data Stewardship, Governance, & Resilience
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8:30am CDT

Update on WMO Information System 2.0
Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am CDT
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Sign-in & Notes
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Information System 2.0 (WIS2) is the new data exchange backbone for 193 WMO Members across all WMO Earth system domains: weather, climate, hydrology, ocean, atmospheric composition, cryosphere, and space weather. WIS2 is built on a modern cloud-native technology stack using standards developed within OGC and WMO, providing discovery, access, and near...
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avatar for Ethan Davis

Ethan Davis

Software Engineer, NSF Unidata - UCAR
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Steve Olson

Physical Scientist, NWS/STI/WIAD
I work for the National Weather Service (NWS) Meteorological Development Laboratory (MDL).  MDL conducts applied research and development for the improvement of diagnostic and prognostic weather information; data depiction and utilization; warning and forecast product preparation... Read More →
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Jeremy Tandy

Principal Fellow - Technology, Met Office
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Chris Little

IT Fellow, Met Office
Open Data, Interoperability Standards, Geo, Environmental ,Time, 4+D
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Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am CDT
Location TBA
  Standards, Metadata, & Interoperability
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10:00am CDT

Break
Wednesday July 29, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Rowling Hall Floor 3 Foyer
Break & socialize

Audience
All meeting attendees
Wednesday July 29, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Rowling Hall Floor 3 Foyer
  Meals & Breaks
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11:00am CDT

Build an MCP Server for AWS Open Data Using Vibe Coding with Kiro (Part 2)
Wednesday July 29, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
Continuation of the hands-on MCP server workshop. Part 2 deepens the work begun in Part 1, expanding the MCP server's capabilities to search and discover imagery and data from the Registry of Open Data. Participants continue using Vibe Coding with Kiro to build tools that allow searching and discovering data without writing any code. The session concludes with applying the finished MCP server to...
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Chris Stoner

AWS Open Environmental and Geospatial Data Lead, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Wednesday July 29, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  AI & Intelligent Systems
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11:00am CDT

Harmonizing Innovation and Preservation: Integrating Cloud-Native Formats into Open Earth Science Ecosystems
Wednesday July 29, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
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The federal government is accelerating data preservation efforts and is beginning to receive cloud-native formats for long-term preservation. Archivists and data management practitioners now face the challenge of preserving formats that are community-managed but not yet adopted by widely recognized authoritative bodies such as LOC or NARA. This session explores the policy gap and the need for...
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avatar for Nazila Merati

Nazila Merati

Physical Scientist, DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI
Data whisperer, CCO and firm believer in data night.

Physical Scientist who leads and coordinates data management planning and data stewardship for long-term data preservation.
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Paul Lemieux

Data Archivist, NOAA / NESDIS / National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
Paul received his B.A. in Geography and M.S. in Information Science from the University of Tennessee in 2014 and 2016 respectively. He currently works as a Data Archivist for the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi... Read More →
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Sarah O'Connor

Physical Scientist, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI
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Sarah Menassian

IT Specialist - Data Scientist, DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI

Wednesday July 29, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Cloud-Native & Data Infrastructure
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11:00am CDT

Building Technical Know-How Through Innovation Seed-Funding and Community
Wednesday July 29, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
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Sign-in & Notes
New projects bring new technical skill needs at every career stage. Through small projects, prototyping, and community input, programs like the ESIP Lab and the USGS Community for Data Integration (CDI) provide pathways for researchers to experiment with technology development in a low-stakes environment, gaining skills to leverage new data, tools, and AI technologies. This session brings together...
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Speakers
avatar for Leslie Hsu

Leslie Hsu

physical scientist, U.S. Geological Survey
Coordinator of the USGS Community for Data Integration, Interim Director of the USGS Powell Center, and member of the USGS Science Data Management branch. https://github.com/hsu000001
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Aaron Friesz

Technical Community Manager, ESIP
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Lauren Koenig

Data Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey
data pipelining, reproducible workflows, surface water quality, biogeochemistry
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Wednesday July 29, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Community, Education, & Capacity Building
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11:00am CDT

Facilitating Scientists' Learning While Stress Testing Open Science Principles via Openscapes
Wednesday July 29, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
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How do we meld open science principles to meet government agency requirements? By making space for open collaboration. This session explores melding and messiness, focusing on two stories: (1) NASA Openscapes Mentors' code-based tutorials and learning resources in the Earthdata Cloud Cookbook and how they could be better integrated into the NASA Earthdata unified website; (2) NOAA Fisheries...
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Julia Lowndes

Director, Openscapes
Dr. Julia Stewart Lowndes is Openscapes founding director and co-leads NASA Openscapes and NOAA Fisheries Openscapes projects. I am a marine ecologist working at the intersection of actionable science, data science, and open science. My main focus is mentoring teams to develop technical... Read More →

Wednesday July 29, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Data Stewardship, Governance, & Resilience
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11:00am CDT

Bridging the Divide Between Geospatial Data and Clinical Data with Standards
Wednesday July 29, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
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Sign-in & Notes
This discussion-focused session presents a first draft of a proposed metadata and provenance standard for linking geospatial and clinical data, capturing all metadata needed for clinical and public health applications. The facilitated discussion will probe the limits of the standard. The Geodata 4 Health cluster has desired outcomes designed to close gaps between those who collect data and those...
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avatar for Anne Thessen

Anne Thessen

Associate Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
I am passionate about data integration and semantic technology!
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Wednesday July 29, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
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  Standards, Metadata, & Interoperability
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12:30pm CDT

Lunch
Wednesday July 29, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm CDT
Tejas Dining Room
Lunch & networking

Audience
All meeting attendees
Wednesday July 29, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm CDT
Tejas Dining Room
  Meals & Breaks
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2:00pm CDT

Bridging Discipline Divides: Applying AI to Curation (Part 1)
Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
Metadata curation deals with many processes that can be substantially accelerated through AI, including selecting relevant terms from large controlled vocabularies, drafting descriptions, and extracting basic information from resources being described. This session brings together challenges, works in progress, and successes from several NASA sciences on incorporating AI techniques into curation...
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Speakers
avatar for Rebecca Ringuette

Rebecca Ringuette

Principal Open Science Scientist, Heliophysics Digital Resource Library at NASA Goddard
Heliophysics infrastructure (e.g. archives, data access/utilization), making resources (archives, software, notebooks, etc) more discoverable and open, more level citation (software and models in addition to data), how to make science reproducible and interactive, and current efforts... Read More →
avatar for Elisabeth Huffer

Elisabeth Huffer

Information Systems Engineer, Lingua Logica

DN
CS
avatar for Shawn Polson

Shawn Polson

Research Software Engineer, LASP
Shawn Polson is a software engineer who got his Masters in Computer Science from CU Boulder in 2020. He has worked at LASP since 2015. He is the Tech Lead of the Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) and works on the SUDA SDC for NASA's Europa Clipper. He also serves on LASP's AI... Read More →
VD
SM
avatar for Lynn Neakrase
WA
avatar for Kelly Lockhart
JW
NS
AB

Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  AI & Intelligent Systems
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2:00pm CDT

Help Us, Help Ourselves: Sharing Infrastructure Across Repository Networks
Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
Open data repositories share a common core set of needs for computing and networking infrastructure. As repositories grow, there is an increasing trend to move 24x7 operational services from on-prem data centers to commercial cloud providers, often at significantly higher prices (redundant multi-site storage can be 10-30x higher than on-prem). In light of recent massive funding cuts, this Council...
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Speakers
avatar for Matt Jones

Matt Jones

Director of Informatics R&D, University of California Santa Barbara
DataONE | Arctic Data Center | Open Science | Provenance and Semantics | Cyberinfrastructure
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Martin Seul

Technical Director, CUAHSI
avatar for Jeanette Clark

Jeanette Clark

Research Software Engineer, NCEAS
avatar for Karen Stocks

Karen Stocks

Director, Geological Data Center, University of California San Diego


Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Cloud-Native & Data Infrastructure
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2:00pm CDT

Bridging Divides and Getting to Yes
Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
Good ideas do not become reality on their own. Bridging divides often requires bringing together different perspectives, aligning priorities, and overcoming what can feel like intractable inertia. Through personal stories and practical lessons, speakers will reflect on the often unseen work of building support, creating momentum, and getting from "maybe" to "yes."AudienceParticipants across all...
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JL

Julia Lowndes

Director, Openscapes
Dr. Julia Stewart Lowndes is Openscapes founding director and co-leads NASA Openscapes and NOAA Fisheries Openscapes projects. I am a marine ecologist working at the intersection of actionable science, data science, and open science. My main focus is mentoring teams to develop technical... Read More →
avatar for Eli Holmes

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 →

Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Community, Education, & Capacity Building
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2:00pm CDT

Workshopping Earth Science Knowledge Rescue
Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
Recent workforce disruptions and grant cancellations have separated hundreds of earth scientists from their research and institutions. While raw data may remain on servers, the vital undocumented context — methodological workarounds, interrupted longitudinal data, negative results — is at immediate risk of permanent loss. This interactive session workshops an Earth Science Knowledge Living...
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avatar for Steve Young

Steve Young

Senior business consultant, EPA (retired); Innovate Inc.
Steve is a retired 30+ year EPA employee. He specialized in information technology, management, and policy with a focus on leveraging new technologies to provide open, actionable information to the public. He also developed a sub- specialty in biodiversity informatics and played a... Read More →
avatar for Bruce Caron

Bruce Caron

Executive Director, New Media Studio
Bruce is a long-time advocate for open science. He is an active online-community architect, and is looking to help open-science organizations build community governance and achieve their promise. He recently published the Open Scientist Handbook . He is a co-founder of the EarthArXiv... Read More →

Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Data Stewardship, Governance, & Resilience
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2:00pm CDT

Community Best Practices for Modern Model Workflows
Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
This working session brings together perspectives from Earth system modeling centers approaching exascale-scale data archives to share, learn, and document best practices for rethinking and optimizing Earth science modeling architecture. NOAA GFDL presents their legacy architecture rewrite and current technical roadblocks, then facilitates breakout discussions across five topics: (1) Cloud-Native...
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avatar for Aparna Radhakrishnan

Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Standards, Metadata, & Interoperability
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3:30pm CDT

Break
Wednesday July 29, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Rowling Hall Floor 3 Foyer
Break & socialize

Audience
All meeting attendees
Wednesday July 29, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Rowling Hall Floor 3 Foyer
  Meals & Breaks
  • format json

4:00pm CDT

Enhancing Earth Science Data Stewardship with AI: Real-World Examples and Experiences (Part 2)
Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
AI capabilities are developing tremendously quickly, creating opportunities for those supporting the research data enterprise to do their work in new or more efficient ways. But the rapid pace also creates divides: some people have access to the time, expertise, and resources to learn how to apply AI tools, while others do not. This session (Part 2 of the AI curation series) shares real-world...
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Speakers
avatar for Karen Stocks

Karen Stocks

Director, Geological Data Center, University of California San Diego

avatar for Leslie Hsu

Leslie Hsu

physical scientist, U.S. Geological Survey
Coordinator of the USGS Community for Data Integration, Interim Director of the USGS Powell Center, and member of the USGS Science Data Management branch. https://github.com/hsu000001
avatar for David Blodgett

David Blodgett

Civil Engineer, U.S. Geological Survey


Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  AI & Intelligent Systems
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4:00pm CDT

earthaccess: Five Years of Open Source Science Leadership at NASA
Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
earthaccess is a powerful model for open-source tool sustainability and user-driven development: widely used not only because it solves real user problems, but because it has been intentionally developed openly and amplified via storytelling. This session shares several short stories and includes an open mic: what earthaccess is and its current impact; how the community works via hackdays (ESIP...
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Speakers
JL

Julia Lowndes

Director, Openscapes
Dr. Julia Stewart Lowndes is Openscapes founding director and co-leads NASA Openscapes and NOAA Fisheries Openscapes projects. I am a marine ecologist working at the intersection of actionable science, data science, and open science. My main focus is mentoring teams to develop technical... Read More →

Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Cloud-Native & Data Infrastructure
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4:00pm CDT

The Evolution of the Community Fellows Program: Piloting a New Vision for the Future
Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
Since 2011, the ESIP Community Fellows Program has served as a gateway for early career researchers to connect with the Earth data science community. This session shares 15 years of program successes, including case studies of impactful work led by Community Fellows (30 minutes), then explores new opportunities for evolving the program based on recommendations compiled from a recent survey of the...
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Speakers
avatar for Alycia Crall
DM

Debasish Mishra

PhD Student, Texas A&M University
JL

Joseph Lane

Graduate Student, University of Memphis
KH

Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Community, Education, & Capacity Building
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4:00pm CDT

Main Results from RDA Repo2Pub Working Group: Do We Need to Update the COPDESS Commitment Statement?
Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
This session has two parts. Part 1 reports on the nearly finalized RDA Repo2Pub Working Group, which conducted interviews with 8 publishers and 8 repositories to analyze pain points in the Research Publication workflow between publishers, domain repositories, and researchers — identifying cross-stakeholder dependencies and bottlenecks. Part 2 revisits the COPDESS Statement of Commitment...
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Speakers
avatar for Lesley Wyborn

Lesley Wyborn

Data Strategist, Australian Research Data Commons
avatar for Kerstin Lehnert

Kerstin Lehnert

Doherty Senior Research Scientist, Columbia University
Kerstin Lehnert is Doherty Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and Director of the Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance that operates EarthChem, the System for Earth Sample Registration, and the Astromaterials Data System. Kerstin... Read More →
avatar for Shelley Stall

Shelley Stall

Vice President, Open Science Leadership, American Geophysical Union
Shelley Stall is the Vice President of the American Geophysical Union’s Open Science Leadership Program. She works with AGU’s members, their organizations, and the broader research community to improve data and digital object practices with the ultimate goal of elevating how research... Read More →
avatar for Danie Kinkade

Danie Kinkade

Information Systems Specialist / Director BCO-DMO, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
avatar for Natalie Raia

Natalie Raia

Earth Science Cyberinfrastructure Research Principal, University of Arizona
Natalie Raia is a Earth Science Cyberinfrastructure Research Scientist in the College of Information Science at the University of Arizona. She collaborates with library and information scientists, systems engineers, researchers, publishers, and academic societies to develop and drive... Read More →
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BS

Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Data Stewardship, Governance, & Resilience
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4:00pm CDT

Bridging Data Silos: Scaling Digital Resource Cards and Iterative Governance for Soil Data
Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
This session reviews and solicits feedback on digital resource cards that describe data holdings/repositories, APIs, semantic resources, and related organizations — specifically cards describing agents (organizations, labs, people), semantics (vocabularies, code lists, ontologies), data holdings and APIs, and publications. These cards capture what data are described by whom, who governs data and...
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avatar for Cory Levinson
avatar for Kathe Todd-Brown

Kathe Todd-Brown

Assistant professor, University of Florida
I'm a computational biogeochemist who uses simulations to look at how soil breaths and links up data to support those models. I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida and co-chair the Soil Ontology and Informatics Cluster as well as the Operational Ethics Cluster at... Read More →
avatar for Brandon Whitehead

Brandon Whitehead

Graduate student, University of Florida

Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Standards, Metadata, & Interoperability
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5:30pm CDT

Research Showcase Poster and Demo
Wednesday July 29, 2026 5:30pm - 7:30pm CDT
Zlotnik Ballroom (5,6)
Join us for an ESIP tradition - our Research Showcase Poster and Demo session! Learn more about your colleagues' work, showcase your latest efforts, ask questions, and make new connections.

Audience
All meeting attendees
Wednesday July 29, 2026 5:30pm - 7:30pm CDT
Zlotnik Ballroom (5,6)
  General
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Thursday, July 30
 

7:30am CDT

Breakfast
Thursday July 30, 2026 7:30am - 8:30am CDT
Zlotnik Foyer
Registration & breakfast

Audience
All meeting attendees
Thursday July 30, 2026 7:30am - 8:30am CDT
Zlotnik Foyer
  Meals & Breaks
  • format json

8:30am CDT

ESIP Plenary
Thursday July 30, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am CDT
Zlotnik Ballroom (1,2,3,4)
Sign-in & Notes
ESIP Plenary

Audience
All meeting attendees
Speakers
avatar for Sarah Cooley

Thursday July 30, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am CDT
Zlotnik Ballroom (1,2,3,4)
  Plenary
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10:00am CDT

Break
Thursday July 30, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Rowling Hall Floor 3 Foyer
Break & socialize

Audience
All meeting attendees
Thursday July 30, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Rowling Hall Floor 3 Foyer
  Meals & Breaks
  • format json

11:00am CDT

Bridging Tools: Consolidating and Advancing Functionality to Meet Evolving User Needs
Thursday July 30, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
DescriptionTools enabling and simplifying data access, subsetting, visualization, and early-analysis are useful to Earth data users across a wide range of communities. In today's environment of quickly evolving computing, users need nimble tools that: - Function across multiple types of data, including data the tool was not originally designed to support - Integrate features presently...
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avatar for Rupesh Shrestha

Rupesh Shrestha

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
avatar for Doug Newman

Doug Newman

Science Data Systems Lead, NASA/ESDIS
NASA ESDIS Systems Engineer.
avatar for Geoffrey Stano

Geoffrey Stano

GHRC DAAC Scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville

MS
avatar for Michele Thornton
avatar for Stephanie M. Wingo

Stephanie M. Wingo

ADMG Team Lead, NASA ODSI / UAH
avatar for Sara Lubkin

Sara Lubkin

DAAC Engineer, NASA/ESDIS

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Cloud-Native & Data Infrastructure
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11:00am CDT

NOAA NESDIS Data Technology and Infrastructure
Thursday July 30, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) provides public access to data and data products from NOAA-operated environmental satellites, oceanographic and atmospheric observing systems, and mission programs supporting understanding of our climate, weather, oceans, and coasts. This session focuses on generating awareness and discussion on Federal data technology...
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avatar for Jessica Morgan

Jessica Morgan

NESDIS Assisstant Chief Data Officer, NOAA
Jessica is the Assistant Chief Data Officer (ACDO) of the NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), a senior expert advisor on scientific data management, responsible for: managing the agency’s inventory of satellite data and archived data holdings... Read More →
avatar for Tyler Christensen

Tyler Christensen

Data Architect, NOAA / NESDIS / Office of Common Services (OCS)
Tyler is the chief data architect for the NESDIS Office of Common Services. OCS builds common services and products to enable partner missions and the NESDIS enterprise.
avatar for John Relph

John Relph

Data Archaeologist, NESDIS NCEI
Data Management, Metadata, Archival, Automation, Dogs
avatar for Jay Su

Jay Su

IT Specialist, NOAA/NESDIS/ACIO
Working at NOAA/NESDIS/ACIO bridging science and engineering, focusing on cloud, AI, and web etc.
avatar for Melissa Zweng

Melissa Zweng

Chief, Product Implementation Branch, NESDIS OCS/PMD
Melissa Zweng is the chief of the Product Implementation Branch (PIB) in the NESDIS Office of Common Services (OCS). PIB manages the product lifecycle, including Transition to Operations, of scientific products in the NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF). Our goal is to transform... Read More →
avatar for Brian Meyer

Brian Meyer

Associate Scientist, NESDIS/NCEI/COGSD/GSB
avatar for Courtney Bouchard

Courtney Bouchard

Oceanographer, NESDIS NCEI
avatar for Gian Villamil-Otero

Gian Villamil-Otero

Physical Scientist, NOAA/NESDIS/OCS/PMD
avatar for Angela Brown

Angela Brown

Data Management Specialist, NESDIS OCS/Cloud Management Branch
avatar for Inger Kittle

Inger Kittle

Physical Scientist, NOAA


Thursday July 30, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Cloud-Native & Data Infrastructure
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11:00am CDT

The Human Infrastructure: Navigating Career Growth and Resilience in Earth Science
Thursday July 30, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
While we increasingly rely on AI and agents to bridge data divides, the development of these tools depends entirely on human connection and intuition. This interactive session addresses the challenges of navigating Earth science careers as the technical landscape shifts, focusing on social science aspects involved in building AI tools and professional survival. A panel of early, mid, and...
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avatar for Aparna Radhakrishnan

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Community, Education, & Capacity Building
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11:00am CDT

Inform NASA Earthdata Progression and Utility for Earth Science Data Users
Thursday July 30, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
This session provides an interactive environment to inform updates for the gateway to NASA's freely available and openly accessible Earth science data repository. Finding the right Earth science data can be overwhelming given the volume of tools and technologies available for accessing petabytes of data. The session is designed for feedback but is rooted in discovery — participants may also...
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avatar for Andi Thomas

Andi Thomas

Project Manager/ NASA ESDS WSCT Lead, SSAI/ NASA
avatar for Tim Frankstone

Tim Frankstone

User Development Specialist, SSAI/NASA

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Data Stewardship, Governance, & Resilience
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11:00am CDT

Cell-Based Spatiotemporal Data Standards: Where Conventions Support, Where They Diverge, and What to Work on Together
Thursday July 30, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
The NetCDF-CF based Unidata Common Data Model has become the de facto abstract data model for interchange of cell-based spatiotemporal data, but related conventions are being substantially renegotiated. Zarr v3 was released in early 2025 with sharding and a formal extension mechanism. The Zarr community prototyped a modular Zarr Conventions framework at the October 2025 Zarr Summit. STAC became an...
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MJ

Max Jones

Cloud Engineer, Development Seed
avatar for Ethan Davis

Ethan Davis

Software Engineer, NSF Unidata - UCAR
avatar for David Blodgett

David Blodgett

Civil Engineer, U.S. Geological Survey


Thursday July 30, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Standards, Metadata, & Interoperability
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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
Pecos
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...
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avatar for Sabrina Ewald

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
Pecos
  Teacher Workshop

12:30pm CDT

Lunch
Thursday July 30, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm CDT
Tejas Dining Room
Lunch & network

Audience
All meeting attendees
Thursday July 30, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm CDT
Tejas Dining Room
  Meals & Breaks
  • format json

2:00pm CDT

Unconference
Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Open unconference session — topics and format to be determined collaboratively by attendees on the day. All five rooms are available. Participants self-organize into groups around topics of shared interest and report back to the broader group.

Audience
All meeting attendees
Speakers
AF

Aaron Friesz

Technical Community Manager, Earth Science Information Partners
Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  General

2:00pm CDT

Unconference
Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Open unconference session — topics and format to be determined collaboratively by attendees on the day. All five rooms are available. Participants self-organize into groups around topics of shared interest and report back to the broader group.

Audience
All meeting attendees
Speakers
AF

Aaron Friesz

Technical Community Manager, Earth Science Information Partners
Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  General

2:00pm CDT

Unconference
Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Open unconference session — topics and format to be determined collaboratively by attendees on the day. All five rooms are available. Participants self-organize into groups around topics of shared interest and report back to the broader group.

Audience
All meeting attendees
Speakers
AF

Aaron Friesz

Technical Community Manager, Earth Science Information Partners
Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  General

2:00pm CDT

Unconference
Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Open unconference session — topics and format to be determined collaboratively by attendees on the day. All five rooms are available. Participants self-organize into groups around topics of shared interest and report back to the broader group.

Audience
All meeting attendees
Speakers
AF

Aaron Friesz

Technical Community Manager, Earth Science Information Partners
Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  General
  • format json

2:00pm CDT

Unconference
Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Open unconference session — topics and format to be determined collaboratively by attendees on the day. All five rooms are available. Participants self-organize into groups around topics of shared interest and report back to the broader group.

Audience
All meeting attendees
Speakers
AF

Aaron Friesz

Technical Community Manager, Earth Science Information Partners
Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  General

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
Pecos
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:â—Ź Explore data and data tools from a...
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avatar for Don Haas

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

3:30pm CDT

Break
Thursday July 30, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Rowling Hall Floor 3 Foyer
Break & socialize

Audience
All meeting attendees
Thursday July 30, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Rowling Hall Floor 3 Foyer
  Meals & Breaks
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4:00pm CDT

ESIP Bright Spots @DataCite
Thursday July 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Many ESIP members use DataCite as a tool for providing unique and persistent identifiers for many kinds of research outputs, i.e. Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). While these identifiers are an important element of the classic citation and identification use case, the metadata associated with them can serve many other use cases. We will focus on tools for measuring metadata completeness with the...
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avatar for Ted Habermann

Ted Habermann

CTO, Metadata Game Changers
I am CTO of Metadata Game Changers (https://metadatagamechangers.com/) interested in metadata evaluation and improvement, repository re-curation, PIDs for everything...
Thursday July 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT

4:00pm CDT

From Code to Conversation: Emerging AI Interface Patterns for Spatial Data and Analysis
Thursday July 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
When an AI client talks to a map, a STAC catalog, or an analysis runtime, something has to define the contract between them — what state looks like, how geometry travels, how results come back interpretable. Right now every team is inventing this contract independently. This session is a working comparison across groups actively building in the space: what patterns are emerging, where they...
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Brian Terry

Analytical Mechanics Associates
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Thursday July 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  AI & Intelligent Systems
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4:00pm CDT

ESDIS vs NESDIS
Thursday July 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
This session gives attendees an opportunity to learn more about two key earth observation programs in the US Federal government: NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Project and NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). Both programs operate a fleet of earth observation satellites, but there are key differences in their mission, platforms...
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Speakers
avatar for Inger Kittle

Inger Kittle

Physical Scientist, NOAA

avatar for Angela Brown

Angela Brown

Data Management Specialist, NESDIS OCS/Cloud Management Branch
CD

Thursday July 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Cloud-Native & Data Infrastructure
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4:00pm CDT

Bridging the Training Divide: A Roundtable on Evolving Earth Science Capacity Building
Thursday July 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
As Earth science datasets scale in complexity, the methods we use to train the next generation of data users must evolve. From rapid hackathons (like the NOAA Satellites Hackathon) to structured open-source curricula (like NASA ARSET and COMET), organizations employ vastly different capacity-building philosophies that often exist in silos. This low-overhead working session maps the current...
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SM
avatar for Katherine Pitts

Katherine Pitts

Product Quality Scientist, STC / GEO Program Science
Hi all! I am a product quality scientist with the NOAA/NESDIS GEO Program Science team, focusing on product quality and mission success for the GOES-R satellite series and transitioning into the next generation GeoXO satellite series. I have been excited to lead the planning of the... Read More →

Thursday July 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Community, Education, & Capacity Building
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4:00pm CDT

ESIP's Contribution to Global Data Resilience
Thursday July 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
Events in the US starting in January 2025 were a wake-up call: many who had their data and/or whose research depended on data in repositories started to ask:How safe are my research-dependent datasets?How secure are the repository infrastructures in which they are stored? Repositories in Europe, Australia, and elsewhere were inundated with requests to host threatened datasets: it was chaotic;...
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Lesley Wyborn

Data Strategist, Australian Research Data Commons
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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).
President of the International Geo Sample Number Implementati... Read More →
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Thursday July 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Data Stewardship, Governance, & Resilience
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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
Pecos
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...
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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 →
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Joan Jungbin Lee

Associate Director of Programs, trubel&co
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Thursday July 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Pecos
  Teacher Workshop

5:30pm CDT

FUNding Friday Poster Making
Thursday July 30, 2026 5:30pm - 8:30pm CDT
Gabriel's Cafe
Joy us for a fun night of engaging conversations and poster making!

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Thursday July 30, 2026 5:30pm - 8:30pm CDT
Gabriel's Cafe 1900 University Ave, Austin, TX 78705, USA
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Friday, July 31
 

7:30am CDT

Continental Breakfast
Friday July 31, 2026 7:30am - 8:00am CDT
Zlotnik Foyer
Breakfast & registration

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Friday July 31, 2026 7:30am - 8:00am CDT
Zlotnik Foyer
  Meals & Breaks
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8:00am CDT

FUNding Friday Pitches
Friday July 31, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am CDT
Zlotnik Ballroom (5,6)
FUNding Friday Pitches

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Friday July 31, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am CDT
Zlotnik Ballroom (5,6)
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9:00am CDT

Epistemic Infrastructure for Responsible and Reliable AI in Earth and Environmental Science
Friday July 31, 2026 9:00am - 10:30am CDT
Location TBA
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As AI and machine learning are increasingly deployed across the Earth and environmental sciences pipeline — from data ingestion through model training, evaluation, and downstream applications — the field faces a shared challenge: how do we know when AI outputs are fit for the purposes to which they are being put? This requires shared epistemic infrastructure: frameworks, vocabularies,...
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Friday July 31, 2026 9:00am - 10:30am CDT
Location TBA
  AI & Intelligent Systems
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9:00am CDT

iNaturalist and Earth Science with Open Mic!
Friday July 31, 2026 9:00am - 10:30am CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
iNaturalist (inaturalist.org) is most likely the most extensive global citizen science effort: over 4 million observers have contributed over 250 million biodiversity observations, many ingested by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (gbif.org). iNat data are cited in over 6,000 peer-reviewed publications, helps ground-truth satellite observations and validate model predictions, and has a...
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Steve Young

Senior business consultant, EPA (retired); Innovate Inc.
Steve is a retired 30+ year EPA employee. He specialized in information technology, management, and policy with a focus on leveraging new technologies to provide open, actionable information to the public. He also developed a sub- specialty in biodiversity informatics and played a... Read More →

Friday July 31, 2026 9:00am - 10:30am CDT
Location TBA
  Community, Education, & Capacity Building
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9:00am CDT

Mapping from DataCite to Science-on-Schema.org for datasets
Friday July 31, 2026 9:00am - 10:30am CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes

Friday July 31, 2026 9:00am - 10:30am CDT
Location TBA
  Data Stewardship, Governance, & Resilience

9:00am CDT

FAIR Sailing: Mapping Oceanographic Data from Ship to Shore
Friday July 31, 2026 9:00am - 10:30am CDT
Location TBA
Sign-in & Notes
This workshop-style session explores the question: how easy or possible is it to locate all of the data from a single research cruise? And can we digitally recreate the cruise as a footprint of the data collected? The session begins with an introduction and lightning presentations, then moves into a working session, and closes with lessons learned and next steps. Research cruises are expensive...
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Mathew Biddle

Physical Scientist, NOAA/IOOS
Matt works as a physical scientist in the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) office, improving access to data and information by working on data management and ensuring the products put out by IOOS are easily accessible to the public.
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Carolina Berys-Gonzalez

Data Manager, CCHDO/SIO/UCSD

Friday July 31, 2026 9:00am - 10:30am CDT
Location TBA
  Standards, Metadata, & Interoperability
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10:30am CDT

Break
Friday July 31, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am CDT
Zlotnik Foyer
Break & socialize

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All meeting attendees
Friday July 31, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am CDT
Zlotnik Foyer
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11:00am CDT

Closing Plenary & Business Meeting
Friday July 31, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Zlotnik Ballroom (1,2,3,4)
Sign-in & Notes
Closing Plenary & ESIP Business Meeting

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All meeting attendees
Speakers
avatar for Sarah Cooley

Friday July 31, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Zlotnik Ballroom (1,2,3,4)
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12:30pm CDT

Lunch
Friday July 31, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm CDT
Zlotnik Foyer
Lunch

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All meeting attendees
Friday July 31, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm CDT
Zlotnik Foyer
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