2025 July ESIP Meeting

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 "Innovation to Impact" this year. Learn more about ESIP: esipfed.org

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7:30am PDT

Breakfast

Wednesday July 23, 2025 7:30am - 8:30am PDT

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Wednesday July 23, 2025 7:30am - 8:30am PDT
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Breakfast

8:30am PDT

Advancing Earth Science with Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Data into Action

Wednesday July 23, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am PDT

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Speakers

Debjani Singh

Wednesday July 23, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am PDT
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Breakout Session

8:30am PDT

Case Studies of Transitioning Datasets from Specialist to Generalist Repositories

Wednesday July 23, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am PDT

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Speakers

Ruth Duerr

Research Scholar, Ronin Institute for Independent Scholars

Practically anything - no sales pitches though

Steve Diggs

Wednesday July 23, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am PDT
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Breakout Session

8:30am PDT

Earth Data Connections: Interoperable Geospatial Tools and New Technologies with a Community-Driven Approach

Wednesday July 23, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am PDT

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Session Description
Fostering an open-science geospatial community requires platforms for sharing new technologies, workflows, and interoperable tools. This session provides a space for geospatial scientists at all experience levels to explore these innovations, sparking collaboration and creativity. Developers will present their community-driven tools, with accessible demonstrations that offer immediate resources for attendees to engage with and inspire future collaboration. Session organizers and speakers will use pre-managed environments, such as Google Colab, to share any live coding examples, web tools, or other resources to help connect attendees with tools and data.

Value to Session Participants
Participants will gain proficiency in the latest Earth science technologies and workflows, interact directly with developers, explore practical examples of tools in use, and take away working code to enhance their workflows.

Recommended Ways to Prepare for this Session
For users interested in coding or data examples who may be new to such methods, we recommend the following free Carpentries workshops: Plotting and Programming in Python, and Programming with R. For all attendees, we recommend reviewing the Cloud-Optimized Geospatial Formats Guide to brush up on new and existing data formats, and how they are implemented in the cloud for geospatial science usage.

Speakers

Keenan Ganz

PhD Student, University of Washington

Chris Battisto

Wednesday July 23, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am PDT
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Breakout Session

8:30am PDT

Measuring Impact: Success Metrics for Open Data

Wednesday July 23, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am PDT

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Sharing data in the cloud lets data users spend more time on data analysis rather than data acquisition. Just putting data into the cloud isn’t enough. In this session, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Data team will discuss how to gather basic metrics for datasets in the Open Data program, and how to leverage them to show the value of these data to the community.

Measuring the impact of open data initiatives is essential for demonstrating their value to science and innovation. This session brings together data providers and cloud technology experts to explore effective approaches for measuring open data success. Leading data providers will share best practices and lessons learned from implementing metrics programs, while the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Data team will demonstrate practical methods for collecting and analyzing dataset usage in the cloud. Participants will learn how to effectively measure and communicate the value of their open data programs to stakeholders and the broader scientific community.

Value to Session Participants: Learn how to measure usage of your open dataset and explain it's value.

Recommended Ways to Prepare for this Session: Should not be needed

Speakers

Chris Stoner

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

Matt Putkoski

Senior Mgr, Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative, Amazon/AWS

Wednesday July 23, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am PDT
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Breakout Session

8:30am PDT

Visions for the future of Wildfire Data Science

Wednesday July 23, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am PDT

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Speakers

Tim Bailey

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 →

Yuhan Rao

Claire Stirm

Wednesday July 23, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am PDT
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Breakout Session

10:00am PDT

Coffee Break Networking

Wednesday July 23, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am PDT

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Wednesday July 23, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
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Break

11:00am PDT

Archive your first or second data set

Wednesday July 23, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm PDT

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Session Description
This is a hands-on companion session to “Case Studies of Transitioning Datasets from Specialist to Generalist Repositories”.

The vision here will be to help people figure out where and how to archive their first or second data set. For example, at NOAA Fisheries there is a list of approved data repositories that staff are encouraged to use (that we will share as we organize this session). But how? This will be a workshop-type session, BYOD: “Bring your own dataset”! We will pick 1-3 repositories to intro/demo in the first part, including discussion about metadata. Then, participants will work through where and how to archive their data, with support from helpers with repository and metadata expertise.

There are many questions that go along with archiving a dataset: which repository should I choose? What is metadata, and which metadata are required? What are PIDs, and why do people keep asking me for them? This hands-on workshop session invites you to BYOD: “Bring your own dataset”, and the presenters will demo the best practices of depositing data into different repositories. We will discuss metadata and other questions, and finally participants will deposit their dataset into a repository with support from helpers and presenters with repository and metadata expertise.

Value to Session Participants
People who BYOD will have a sense of where and how to archive at the least, and hopefully will have their data archived at the end of the session. Others who came to learn are also welcome, and will have an increased understanding of the possibilities and process for data archiving.

Recommended Ways to Prepare for this Session
Bring a data set you'd like to archive. Maybe on a hard drive, or a link! If you have physical data you could bring that too and we can talk through what could be involved to digitize.

Speakers

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 →

Rachael Blake

Director of Data Science, Intertidal Agency

Kate Wing

Intertidal Agency

Eli Holmes

Wednesday July 23, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm PDT
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Breakout Session

11:00am PDT

Communicating Across the GEO-BIO divide: Gathering Requirements, Use Cases, and Pain Points at the Intersection of Geoscience and Public Health

Wednesday July 23, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm PDT

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Speakers

Maria Shatz

Anne Thessen

Wednesday July 23, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm PDT
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Breakout Session

11:00am PDT

Council of Data Facilities: AI-readiness, Funding and Support, and CDF’s Future

Wednesday July 23, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm PDT

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Session Description
The Council of Data Facilities serves as a community focus for data repositories to share knowledge, work on topics of common concern, and speak with a united voice to external communities. This session, open to all, will cover three topics:

1) AI-readiness and data facilities: status, needs, and opportunities. As AI is broadly revolutionizing how science and research are done, it is also bringing new expectations for data repositories to supply AI-ready data. As data facilities, what are the challenges this poses, what are the resources that are available, what are the gaps, and what do we need to move forward? An effort to develop a community roadmap article on data facility AI-readiness will be presented, and members will be invited to give feedback and participate in an open discussion of common challenges, interests and collaborative opportunities.

2) Data facilities in a chaotic environment. Given the unprecedented shifts in funding and agency priorities around data curation, how do we as a community organize to support each other and advocate for the critical work we do? This section will discuss the human side of communication and support, and will coordinate with the separate sessions on data replication across repositories and the repository crisis scorecard.

3) Future Goals and Directions. As data facility needs and interests evolve, and as stressors add demands on our limited time, how can the CDF best organize to serve its community, and to communicate to critical external communities. This will include a brief overview of its original mission and role, and a community “open mike” time for your thoughts on what the CDF can do for you.

Value to Session Participants
The goal is to support data facilities with two current topics of high interest- AI-readiness and navigating the current chaos - as well as get input to better position the CDF work to serve the community going forward (the CDF has lost some momentum lately.)

Recommended Ways to Prepare for this Session
Gather your ideas and issues on how your repository is prepared and preparing for AI readiness and greater funding uncertainty. Have you have been part of the CDF in the past? Why did you participate and is there something that you would like the CDF to focus on going forward?

Speakers

Karen Stocks

Director, Geological Data Center, University of California San Diego

Nick Jarboe

Viswanath Nandigam

Wednesday July 23, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm PDT
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Breakout Session

11:00am PDT

Earth Science data stewardship in the cloud

Wednesday July 23, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm PDT

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Session Description
US agencies involved in the stewardship and management of earth science data have been migrating that data to the cloud for many years. With that experience has come a reevaluation of the risks and mitigations associated with preserving and protecting those archives. Cloud-based stewardship presents common, evolving and completely new risks when compared to an on-premises archive. But the cloud also provides new mitigations to the traditional risks associated with data stewardship.

Additionally, the sheer scale of our archives present new problems to long-term archival. As stewards of this data it is the various agencies' responsibility to maintain and protect those archives now and into the future. How will the cloud help us in this regard?

We invite agencies, organizations and individuals to present their experiences with cloud archive stewardship and their plans for the future so that we can learn and provide better solutions to our community.

Agenda

NASA's Archive Guidelines for the cloud Presenter: Doug Newman
Taming the fire - responding to unpredictability that comes with being in the cloud Presenter: Ben Williams

Value to Session Participants: We want to share our agency's experience with cloud data stewardship so that other's can learn from us.

Recommended Ways to Prepare for this Session: None.

Speakers

Doug Newman

Systems Engineer, NASA/ESDIS

NASA ESDIS Systems Engineer.

Ben Williams

Wednesday July 23, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm PDT
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Breakout Session

12:30pm PDT

Lunch & Birds of Feather

Wednesday July 23, 2025 12:30pm - 2:00pm PDT

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Wednesday July 23, 2025 12:30pm - 2:00pm PDT
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Lunch

2:00pm PDT

Creating a DMP resource for the ESIP community

Wednesday July 23, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT

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The Data Stewardship Committee and the Marine Data Cluster created a DMP-focused working group after the January ESIP virtual meeting to explore and prototype a DMP resource for the ESIP community. This session will review the plan and progress of that working group effort, but the majority of the session will be devoted to exploring, providing feedback, and helping refine the ESIP Community DMP resource on GitHub.

Value to Session Participants: Help us make this resource more effective and efficient, and something ideally you would want to come back and use for your next proposal DMP writing session.

Recommended Ways to Prepare for this Session: We will provide a link to the GitHub repository in the session portal, for participants to review prior to the session. We will also provide a quick “how to guide” for anyone new to GitHub to work through prior to attending, so they can become familiar with the contributing process that will be used during the session.

Speakers

Elisha Wood-Charlson

KBase User Engagement Lead, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Rachael Blake

Director of Data Science, Intertidal Agency

Carolina Berys-Gonzalez

Data Manager, CCHDO/SIO/UCSD

Bolivar Aponte

Wednesday July 23, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
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Breakout Session

2:00pm PDT

ESDIS Standards Coordination Office - Newly Adopted Standard

Wednesday July 23, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT

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ESCO will review newly adopted standards, with a particular focus on data processing levels and variable-level metadata.

Value to Session Participants: Participants will learn about the new standards, how to use them effectively to improve access to data.

Recommended Ways to Prepare for this Session: None.

Speakers

Beth Huffer

Information Systems Engineer, Lingua Logica LLC/NASA Atmospheric Science Data Center

Steve Olding

ESCO Team Lead, NASA ESCO

Ed Armstrong

Science Systems Engineer, NASA JPL/PO.DAAC

Nathan Pollock

Senior Software Developer

Marseille Bunk

Wednesday July 23, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
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Breakout Session

2:00pm PDT

More Support with Less Effort

Wednesday July 23, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT

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Session Description
In an era of decreasing budgets, data repositories must do more with less. Repositories seek new approaches to provide the same or greater level of service (LOS) for their data holdings while using resources more efficiently (a same or smaller level of effort, LOE). We will discuss needs and percolate ideas centered on the application of practical, robust, and concise communication methods to socialize updated requirements, guidance, or other process-oriented information to key stakeholders throughout the data lifecycle.

While the concept of improved communication and socialization spans many areas, the session will focus on the example of conveying updated data product production guidance to data producers. Various formal requirements and informal guidance documents exist across NASA and other repositories for precisely this purpose. However, lengthy descriptions and technical jargon often make it impractical for data producers to peruse such documents, and it is not uncommon for misunderstandings to cause data publication delays.

In this interactive session, a science communication specialist will give an overview of several tools and techniques for conveying technical-oriented requirements in a digestible, practicable manner. We will then explore highlights of a current guidance document, as an example, and facilitate a small group activity in which participants will brainstorm the best ways to socialize the guidance using a variety of techniques. Overall, the session will equip participants with skills and new ideas to improve stakeholders’ practical understanding and implementation of requirements, with a renewed focus on internal process consistency, where possible. As data stewardship professionals, we must evolve to support a higher LOS with a refined LOE.

Value to Session Participants
Gain skills on multiple ways to practically and effectively distill key information (eg: requirements documentation) to a message and delivery method(s) prone to increased stakeholder buy-in and adherence.

Recommended Ways to Prepare for this Session
Reviewing the recent NASA ESDS DPDG would be helpful, but not required

Speakers

Sara Lubkin

DAAC Engineer, NASA/ESDIS

Lindsay Parker

Stephanie Wingo

Wednesday July 23, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
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Breakout Session

2:00pm PDT

What role should civil society play in climate and environmental data stewardship?

Wednesday July 23, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT

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Session Description
The American climate and environmental data landscape is changing rapidly. The responsibility for data collection, processing, maintenance, and dissemination may need to shift substantially onto civil society. This session is an interactive workshop that explores the question: What role could and should civil society play in American climate and environmental data over the coming decade?

This session will include brief presentation about civil society data stewardship, but the majority of the session will focus on breakout group discussions about the opportunities, needs, challenges, and limitations of civil society performing key data stewardship functions (collection, processing, maintenance, dissemination, and others) across several different types of data: atmospheric and marine climate data, conservation data, toxic chemicals release and exposure data, and regulatory compliance data. We will come together at the close of the session to share about the possibilities and pitfalls we see in civil society taking on new roles in different kinds of data stewardship.

Value to Session Participants
The future of federal data is a significant concern, and many people are asking if non-governmental entities can step in to provide data that researchers, policymakers, and society at large rely on. This session is an opportunity for participants to share thoughts, learn from colleagues, and dive deeply into considering what civil society can–and can’t–take on in the coming years. Participants will come away with a sense of what is possible and what is feasible for civil society in different fields.

Recommended Ways to Prepare for this Session
The best way to prepare is to think about and perhaps do some background research about what kinds of equipment are necessary for data collection, what expertise is needed for processing, which entities are currently responsible for data collection, processing, storing, and disseminating.

Speakers

Gregory Maurer

Data Scientist/Data Manager, New Mexico State University

An ecologist and the information manager for the Jornada Basin LTER, with research interests in global change, drylands, and data science.

Christopher Cane

Gretchen Gehrke

Katie Hoeberling

Gabe Watson

Naomi Yoder

Wednesday July 23, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
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Breakout Session

2:00pm PDT

Working towards AI-readiness Checklist 2.0

Wednesday July 23, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT

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Session Description
The Data Readiness Cluster is working towards the next version of the ESIP AI-readiness checklist to help both data producers and data users to assess the usability of open environmental data for AI applications. The cluster identified three major areas for improved based on pilot programs with World Data System, UK Met Office, and other community members' feedback. This working session will focus on collaboration towards the next version of the AI-readiness checklist. The three topics that will be included in the working session include:

Develop primers to help users to understand the questions being asked in the checklist and how to answer these questions.
Integrate the feedback from early adopters to improve the checklist by clarifying questions and adding additional information to support data integration.
Develop a collection of assessment results from early-adopters.

Value to Session Participants
This will allow the session participants contributing to the new version of the AI-readiness checklist.

Recommended Ways to Prepare for this Session
No recommendations provided

Speakers

Douglas Rao

Research Scientist, CISESS-NC/NOAA NCEI

I am currently a Research Scientist at North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, affiliated with NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. My current research at NCICS focuses on generating a blended near-surface air temperature dataset by integrating in situ measurements... Read More →

Wednesday July 23, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
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Breakout Session

3:30pm PDT

Break

Wednesday July 23, 2025 3:30pm - 4:00pm PDT

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Wednesday July 23, 2025 3:30pm - 4:00pm PDT
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Break

4:00pm PDT

Bringing Earth Science Data to Life with Open-Source Storytelling

Wednesday July 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT

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Speakers

Brianna Pagán

Technical Lead, Development Seed

Brianna is first and foremost an environmentalist with a passion for making science accessible and understandable to the masses. She brings over a decade of experience working from local to international environmental efforts, in a broad-range of groups including start-ups, research... Read More →

Anthony Boyd

Brian Freitag

Wednesday July 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
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Breakout Session

4:00pm PDT

Community-derived validation suites for schema.org Dataset interoperability

Wednesday July 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT

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Schema.org metadata has become an important, interoperable thread linking repositories across the Earth sciences. The Science-on-schema.org (SOSO) guidelines provide ESIP-wide recommendations for how data providers should structure and provide Dataset metadata in unambiguous and consistent ways with schema.org. Nevertheless, the community would benefit from improved tooling and a shared understanding of what it means to be compliant with SOSO guidelines, and which fields are required and optional for various downstream metadata use cases. Towards that end, this will be a working session of the SOSO cluster focused on community agreement on validation rules and approaches for Science-on-Schema.org Dataset records. We are looking for useful use cases and applications from data aggregators (e.g., DataONE, Google, Ocean Info Hub), as well as from data facilities like repositories, and other researcher-driven validation needs. The session will focus on the following activities:

1. Quick overview of use cases for SOSO validation requirements, and how they might vary across different use cases and applications
2. Brainstorm, review, and revise a set of proposed validation rules for different SOSO use cases
3. Discuss and decide which validation rules are required and recommended for each of several use cases (possibly in breakout groups if the group is large)
4. Discussion of next steps to formalize and release as a product

Value to Session Participants: Participants will benefit by being able to contribute to and learn from community perspectives on metadata use cases, validation needs, and validation approaches. Ultimately, we expect the community input from this session will lead to improved tooling that participants can use in their own data facilities for improving metadata and data delivery services.

Recommended Ways to Prepare for this Session:
- Review the SOSO Dataset Guidelines
- Think about your use cases for metadata validation
- Bring example JSON-LD docs from your community if desired to see how they meet various use cases
- If desired, familiarize yourself with SHACL as a validation language

Speakers

Matt Jones

Director of Informatics R&D, University of California Santa Barbara

DataONE | Arctic Data Center | Open Science | Provenance and Semantics | Cyberinfrastructure

Chantelle Verhey

Research Associate, International Technology Office & Ocean Networks Canada

Chantelle Verhey is a Research Associate for the World Data System-International Technology Office hosted at Ocean Networks Canada. She has a Masters of Science in Environmental Management from the University of Reading in the UK, and was dedicated to researching Forest fire trends... Read More →

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 →

Adam Shepherd

Technical Director @ BCO-DMO, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Architecting adaptive and sustainable data infrastructures.Co-chair of the ESIP schema.org clusterKnowledge Graphs | Data Containerization | Declarative Workflows | Provenance | schema.org

Wednesday July 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
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Breakout Session

4:00pm PDT

HDF5 2.0: Cloud Optimized from the Start

Wednesday July 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT

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Session Description
HDF5 has quietly enabled breakthroughs across geosciences for over two decades. From NASA satellite missions to climate and weather modeling (as netCDF-4 backend) it has helped scientists to manage, share, and make sense of complex data seamlessly across various computing platforms. This session will present enhancements slated for the upcoming release 2.0 of the HDF5 library: new datatypes for ML/AI applications and complex numbers, new default settings when accessing cloud optimized HDF5 files, and easier use of advanced compression methods. The topics covered will also include latest features and improvements for accessing: (1) NASA's EOSDIS HDF5/netCDF-4, HDF-EOS5, and HDF4 data via OPeNDAP DMR++ web service in the AWS cloud; (2) cloud native HDF5/JSON-based format (HSDS) using Python.

Value to Session Participants
ESIP community typically does not provide feedback to HDF software developers outside of ESIP meetings, probably because for many it is buried into their software stacks. However, many of the performance bottlenecks or workflow obstacles come from the data access software. Sessions like this one help educate broader ESIP community and also provide them with an opportunity to report their data access issues without having to provide comprehensive technical details.

Recommended Ways to Prepare for this Session
No recommendations provided

Speakers

Aleksandar Jelenak

Wednesday July 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
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Breakout Session

4:00pm PDT

Improving Data Impact through Governance and Stewardship Activities

Wednesday July 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT

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This session will explore how connecting data governance and stewardship efforts across organizations can enhance data interoperability and maximize impact. Participants will discuss data governance efforts around PIDs, file formats, metadata, vocabularies, semantics – all critical artifacts that support data interoperability.

We propose a workshop style session to discuss ways to improve data impact through data governance and stewardship. Specifically, we will discuss questions such as: What does it take to connect data across organizations, disciplines, and applications? What types of efforts should be prioritized when resources are limited? How can data governance facilitate this process?

Value to Session Participants: Bring people together from diverse organizations, disciplines, and applications to explore how collaboration in data governance can enhance interoperability and maximize data impact.

Recommended Ways to Prepare for this Session: None at this time

Speakers

Sara Lubkin

DAAC Engineer, NASA/ESDIS

Ge Peng

Chief Research Scientist, SSAI/NASA ESDIS

Douglas Rao

Research Scientist, CISESS-NC/NOAA NCEI

Nancy Ritchey

NCEI Archive Branch Chief, NOAA/NESDIS

Wednesday July 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
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Breakout Session

5:30pm PDT

Research Showcase Poster & Demo Reception

Wednesday July 23, 2025 5:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

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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. Appetizers and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided.

Wednesday July 23, 2025 5:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
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Break

7:00pm PDT

Dine-Around Dinners in Seattle

Wednesday July 23, 2025 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT

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Get out and explore downtown Seattle! Back by popular demand! We have made reservations at a range of wonderful local restaurants. We will share more info soon.

Wednesday July 23, 2025 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
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