Winter 2016 Meeting

This page is used for planning. For all Winter Meeting details see the page on the ESIP Commons

January 6-8, 2016

The 2016 Winter ESIP Federation Meeting will be held at the Wardman Park Marriott

Earth Science Data, Big and Large: Changing text for Winter/Summer
- Earth Science Data, Big and Large Data: Reuse and Modeling (Winter)
Earth Science Data: Reuse and Modeling
Earth Science Data Big and Large: Reuse and Modeling
Big Data in Earth Science: Reuse and Large-Scale Modeling
Big Data in Earth Science: Reuse and Modeling
- Talk about different kinds of large datasets
- Technologies that weren't created for Earth science (HBase, Apache Spark, Hadoop for everyone)
- Are your Data Big? What Big Data means in Earth Science
- Large-scale models

Big Data Reuse and Modeling
A Year of Data: Modeling, Big Data, and Reuse
Data Challenges: Modeling, Big Data, and Reuse
Making Data (Re)Useful for Modeling
Big Data, Climate Models, and Resilience: Data Science for Transdisciplinary Outcomes
Big Data, Models, and Resilience: Data Science for Transdisciplinary Outcomes
Modeling, Big Data and Resilience: ...
- How do you manage data to be used by models?
- Professional Dev tracks
- Use strategic plan as track/binning
focus on big data
focus on open science
focus on implementing new climate change data sources and tools
focus on delivering data applications to resource managers
Past ESIP Meeting Themes
Suggested Themes

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

on earth science + data/computer science collaborations --

Natalie Boelman (Lamont) is working with Columbia Engineering's Dan Ellis to automate the analysis of Arctic bird calls to understand how climate change is affecting annual songbird migrations: http://bit.ly/1J3Owzo

Joaquim Goes (Lamont) + computer scientists at Columbia University are working to understand what has caused an unusual plankton-like species to rapidly invade the Arabian Sea food chain, threatening fisheries that sustain more than 100 million people living at the sea’s edge: http://bit.ly/1U7YyaP

Participants: Annie B., Annie K., Denise H., Bruce C., and Jamie R.

Annie Keyes discussed Summer Meeting locations

Annie Keyes discussed SWAG

Winter Meeting Theme Discussion

Push for more sessions at Winter Meeting

Suggest that Annie B. ping group leaders to discuss session in their monthly telecons
Consensus that everyone always submits last minute

Sponsorship Document

Participants: Erin R., Annie B., Dan K., Rebecca F., Denise H., Bruce C., Ken K. and Jamie R.

Denise H. suggested Lavalier microphones and an ipad or dedicated laptop to improve remote participation.
The DC area for summer meetings has issues (cost, hotel coverage). Asheville's new collaborative workspace and NOAA connections are positives.
Highlight the success story of the Drone Cluster as something that ESIP can facilitate.
Visioneers could come up with a new name that combines BOF and Hackerspace, i.e. a place to connect that can also be action-oriented.
Winter Meeting Theme could align with common-theme suggestions from ESIP meeting (Denise H. to share G-doc) surveys AND the needs of NOAA and NASA.
Ask our NOAA and NASA connections about theme ideas .
Next Visioneers Meeting in 2-3 weeks (Erin R. or AB to suggest meeting time)