Summer 2016 Meeting
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
Dates
July 19-22, 2016
Venue
The 2016 Summer ESIP Federation Meeting will be held at the Friday Center, Chapel Hill, NC.
Meeting Enhancement Issues and Thoughts
Sub-Theme Options
2016 Meeting Theme: Frontiers in Earth Sciences Big Data
Types of breakouts
- Talk (e.g., Powerpoint)
- Demonstration (online software or web-site walk-through
- Problem-solving session (facilitated discussion among participants to address a specific problem)
- Tutorial/Training (instructor-led classroom-style session to teach attendees)/lab
- Panel Session
- Writing Session
- Hack Sprint (mini Hackathon)
- Planning Session
May also think about breaking breakouts into shorter/longer chunks
Plenary Talk Ideas
Approach Heidi Cullen, Chief Scientist of Climate Central (see her at 3:30 min into this video)
Discussion and notes
- Moveable Feast / Disney's Carousel of Progress afternoon
- "lightning-style" 10-15 min talk
- each talk would be pre-approved by a seasoned communicator