FUNding Friday Projects

FUNding Friday is an annual mini-competition established in 2008 at the Summer Meeting in Durham, NH. Several $5,000 awards are given to members to fund small projects that are inspired by ESIP collaboration or participation. In 2009, the ESIP Federation created a student competition with awards of $3,000.

This competition serves several purposes:

• promotes and rewards new collaborations or bridges between ESIP projects and technologies, so that novel outcomes can be explored.
• fosters small-scale projects of real value by supporting programmer salary, travel—whatever is needed to realize the proposed work.
• showcases how the ESIP Federation can leverage current technologies and member skills to add new services with a modest amount of effort(and funding).
• rewards members who are looking to explore new collaborations and new ideas inspired by other Federation member activities.

2008 Winners

• Helpr
• WMS/KML Interoperability Development
• Earth Exploration Toolbook Chapter on Air Quality

2009 Winners

Member Winners

• Air Twitter
• World Ocean Atlas Upgrade
• Stay Connected
  

Student Winners

• PanOpt project
• Stay Connected

2010 Winners

Member Winners

• DEMExplorer
• Continuing the Connections
• iPhone App Developer

Student Winners

• Beaver Creek Project
• Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder Charts Project
• State Tectonics Project
• Spatial Cloud Project

2011 Winners

Member Winners

• Demonstrating preservation connections using OAI-ORE
• Digital Earth Watch in Action
• Enhanced Collaborative Disaster Management Through Interoperable Data Visualization
• Linked Open Research Data for Earth and Space Science Informatics

Student Winners

• Engaging Climate Change Learners in Public School Settings
• Self-Organizing Maps for Automated Oil-Spill Detection

2012 Winners

Member Winners

• Climate Change – One Student @ a Time
• Exploratory visualization of earth science data in a Semantic Web context
• Preprint Service with Open Review
• Revitalizing Forgotten Data: Bringing 40 years of Glacial Photography into the Digital Age

Student Winners

• Assessing Skills, Access and Trust of Data Use and Reuse within the ESIP community
• Interactive Federation Network Analysis Tool

2013 Winners

Member Winners

• Demonstration of a mobile application for estimating forest canopy closure using digital photographs
• Making the Case for Data Stewardship Use Cases: A Community Building and Engagement Exercise
• Semantic Similarity Computation and Concept Mapping in Earth and Environmental Science

Student Winners

• Agricultural Drought Information Cluster
• Aquaponics For Triage and Emergency Response (AFTER)

Other FUNding Friday-inspired projects:
CheapStix: Distributing and Running OPeNDAP servers on a Virtual Machine
1-Click Satellite Data: A Java applet that let's you display current satellite data anywhere in the world with one simple mouse click.