Winter 2016 Meeting

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

Dates

January 6-8, 2016

Venue

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

Meeting Enhancement Issues and Thoughts

• Post 2015 Summer Meeting Survey
• Post 2015 Winter Meeting Survey

Theme Options

• 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

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

• Gavin Schmidt TED Talk
• Jerry Sheehan, OSTP’s Assistant Director for Scientific Data and Information
• Modeler panel?
• Christine Borgman
• Damian Brady, UMaine oceanographer/modeler (http://bit.ly/1Kr583F)
• Andrew Turner from Esri’s Vienna office
• Nancy Ritchey at NOAA

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

Discussion and notes

Visioneers Meeting 10/20/15

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

Annie Keyes discussed Summer Meeting locations

• Narrowed down to Durham, NH, Chapel Hill, NC, Asheville, NC, and Gainsville, FL
• Gainsville does not have wifi capacity
• Should hear from Asheville, NC this week
• Call participants ranked Durham and Asheville as top choices
• Did not like the distance of the Chapel Hill location to an urban center

Annie Keyes discussed SWAG

• SWAG: (bags, moleskine notebooks, pens)

Winter Meeting Theme Discussion

• Frontiers in Earth Sciences Big Data
• No sub-theme for winter
• Like the idea of "Earth Sciences: The Original Big Data" on stickers

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

• Suggestion that there should be a higher-level than 20K
• Are we really limiting to "two only?"

Visioneers Meeting 8/31/15

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)