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.

8:30am CDT

Welcome & Opening Plenary

Tuesday July 28, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am CDT

Zlotnik Ballroom (1,2,3,4)

Collaborative Notes

Welcome to the 2026 July ESIP Meeting!

Audience
All meeting attendees

Speakers

Sarah Cooley

Dev Niyogi

Professor, Jackson School of Geosciences

Dev Niyogi is the William Stamps Farish Chair Professor and UNESCO Chair for Open Sustainable Innovative Solutions: AI, Water, and Cities. He has a primary appointment in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Jackson School of Geosciences, with additional appointments... Read More →

Marshall Ma

Associate Professor, University of Idaho

Xiaogang (Marshall) Ma is this year's Falkenberg Award winner, a joint award between AGU and ESIP. He is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Idaho. He received his Ph.D. degree of Earth Systems Science and GIScience from University of Twente, Netherlands... Read More →

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

Plenary

8:30am CDT

ESIP Plenary

Thursday July 30, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am CDT

Zlotnik Ballroom (1,2,3,4)

Collaborative Notes

ESIP Plenary
Speakers: Fa Li, Madeline Berger

Audience
All meeting attendees

Speakers

Sarah Cooley

Fa Li

Assistant Professor, UT Austin

Fa Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Jackson School of Geosciences at the UT Austin. Before joining UT Austin, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University and a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research... Read More →

Madeline Berger

PhD student, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology

Madeline (Maddie) Berger is the 2026 Raskin Scholar Award winner and a 2026 ESIP Community Fellow. She is a PhD student at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology at the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa. Her research focuses on quantifying the spatial and temporal patterns of land-use... Read More →

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

Plenary

11:00am CDT

Closing Plenary & Business Meeting

Friday July 31, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT

Zlotnik Ballroom (1,2,3,4)

Collaborative Notes

Each year ESIP leadership presents the "State of ESIP" at our Annual Assembly Business meeting. All are welcome to this session, partners and non partners, in person or vitual. ESIP partners not registered for the meeting will be provided with a virtual meeting link.

Audience
All meeting attendees

Speakers