Winter 2012 Meeting

Meeting Venue

The 2012 Winter ESIP Federation Meeting will be held January 4-6, 2011 in Washington, DC at the Renaissance Washington, DC Dupont Circle Hotel (1145 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20007). Rooms at the Renaissance are available for single/double occupancy for $183/night (plus applicable taxes). Reservations can be made by calling (202-775-0800) and requesting the ESIP Meeting rate or can be booked online. The room block is limited with rooms available on a first-come, first-served basis. The cut-off date for reservations is December 13, 2011 or when the room block is full, whichever comes first.

Registration

Registration for the 2011 Winter ESIP Federation Meeting will be available on October 15. Early registration (through December 2, 2011) is $395/members and $495/non-members. After December 2, the registration fee rises to $495 (members) and $595 (non-members). A special registration is available for students and teachers for $150. A special one-day attendance is available for $200. Registration for the meeting begins [here].

Program

Agenda

The 2012 Winter ESIP Federation Meeting will focus on the theme: Connections Through Collaboration: Engaging Community Throughout the Data Life Cycle. With increasing attention being paid to data systems interoperability both within and across science disciplines, the ESIP Federation plays an important role in bringing together organizations and individuals who make the connections - both human and technical - necessary to achieve integrated science. Speakers have been invited to represent academic, public and philanthropic interests, all with a goal toward understanding new ways to measure how Earth science information is used. Breakout sessions will be led by several of the ESIP Federation's committees, clusters and working groups addressing both the technological and societal benefit challenges within our community. A preliminary agenda is posted here.

Breakout Sessions

• Guidance for Breakout Session Leaders

Poster Session and Reception

Below are some sites that can help you create posters that are dynamic and hold the interest of your audience.

• Swarthmore College's Advice on designing scientific posters

• Doing a great poster on the cheap (contributed by Bruce Caron)

Social Media and Virtual Participation

Follow us in real-time on Twitter and Facebook. Tweet about the meeting using #ESIPFed.

"Hallway Chatter" on Twitter

Follow along with the 'hallway chatter' by checking on the #ESIPFed twitter stream. If you want to chime in, just tag your tweet with #ESIPFed (great for virtual questions during plenaries).

Theme ideas:

Post your ideas below!

1. Communication, Coordination, Collaboration: building new data-intensive science workflows [ bruce c 13:27, 13 September 2011 (MDT) ]
2. Leveraging Open Government and Data.gov to benefit earth science information -- and vice versa [ Steve Young (SteveYoung) 13:44, 13 September 2011 (MDT) ]
3. Connections Through Collaboration: engaging community throughout the data life cycle [ Carol Meyer 5:23, 15 September 2011 (MDT)]