One of the best parts of a science conference is getting together to share research with colleagues and peers. 🔭 🪲 At the ESIP July Meeting, AGU is our Research Showcase Sponsor. Thank you, AGU, for making this session happen! 🎉 Explore all AGU has to offer on their website ➡️ www.agu.org

Enhancing data interoperability ensures meaningful data integration and empowers smart tools for data discovery and analysis in Earth sciences. Meet the ESIP Semantic Technologies Committee 👋 Want to learn more? ➡️ www.esipfed.org/collaboratio...

What's new in #EarthScienceData? 🚀 Get the weekly Update to your inbox: esipfed.org/subscribe 👀 Go to our Community Calendar to find all ESIP Cluster Meetings ➡️ esipfed.org/community-calendar/ 💫 More about Collaboration Areas: esipfed.org/collaboration-areas/ 🧵

📚 What we're reading: "US #wildfire sensors didn’t consistently detect fires, audit finds," from Wildfire Today. An audit of US DHS sensors found numerous instances where they didn’t detect fires, declared false fires, or alerted first responders to fires long after they started.

Free and reliable access to high-precision, accurate data is critical to repository preservation and understanding our world. Meet the Sustainable Data Management Cluster 👋 The group meets the 1st Monday of each month. They're currently working on publishing a paper about the RCS. 🧵

Esri just became a Silver Sponsor for the ESIP July Meeting! 🎉 Thank you! 🌐 Esri is a leader in geographic information technology, using data to fuel "The Science of Where." Learn more: buff.ly/Tj3vbHz #dataforgood #geospatial #arcgis #sponsor

📣 Monday July 27—the day before the ESIP Meeting starts—Openscapes is hosting a hackday! Learn more: buff.ly/5UvhBuA “Hackday” to Openscapes and earthaccess communities means collaborative problem-solving, strategizing, and translating ideas to action -- decisions, code, and documentation.

Meet our new ESIP Partner, CODATA 🎉 CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Science Council (ISC)) exists to promote global collaboration to improve the availability and usability of data for all areas of research. 🔎 Learn more about CODATA: codata.org/about-codata/

Just a reminder that the NOAA Science Seminar Series that began in 2004 -- a voluntary effort by over 70 NOAA seminar coordinators to integrate and distribute a list of NOAA-hosted, publicly accessible science seminars -- is still going strong with over a dozen seminars every week. Check them out:

What's new in #EarthScienceData? 🚀 Get the weekly Update to your inbox: esipfed.org/subscribe 👀 Go to our Community Calendar to find all ESIP Cluster Meetings ➡️ esipfed.org/community-calendar/ 💫 More about Collaboration Areas: esipfed.org/collaboration-areas/ 🧵

As part of ESIP's 2026 “Bridging Divides” theme, we’re exploring ways to make it easier (and less scary) to build mentoring relationships. 🌱 A new blog authored by ESIP Executive Director Sarah Cooley highlights how our community has supported each other and grown over the years.

📚 What we're reading: "The Federal Data Field Guide," by Denice Ross and Christopher Marcum. This guide provides context for federal data users to inspire a broader range of data types in their research and advocacy. 🏛️ The authors hope it will inform dialogues about the future of federal data.

📣 Come to the next call for the ESIP Agriculture & Climate Cluster next Thurs, May 21! We'll be joined by Youngfa You (Virginia Tech) for a talk about "Mapping Carbon Dynamics and GHG Emissions: Toward Transforming Management Practices for Climate-Smart Agriculture." 🌽🌾

Creating and preserving quality Earth system science data empowers the innovative use of data to solve grand challenges. 👋 Meet the Data Stewardship Committee! The Cluster is led by Chair Ge Peng. The group meets on the second Monday of the month at 3 pm U.S. Eastern Time. 🧵

In-person meetings just aren’t possible without sponsors. 🌱 Big thanks to ESIP July Meeting Sponsor AWS Open Data! We're grateful for their support. 🎉 Sharing data in the cloud lets data users spend more time on data analysis rather than data acquisition. Explore more ➡️ aws.amazon.com/opendata/

📣 Come to the next call for the ESIP #Wildfire Cluster, TOMORROW, May 14. 🔥 The Cluster will host Anthony Boyd (Development Seed) and Zeb Becker (NASA Wildfire Tracking Lab) for a talk on the #NASA Wildfire Tracking Lab’s method for monitoring fires using VIIRS active fire detections. 🛰️

Meet our new Partner, the Wildfire Commons 🎉 The Wildfire Commons is an open collaboration for a wildfire-resilient future, with core focuses on data sharing, standards development, opportunity assessment, and community marketplace building. 🔎 Learn more: wildfirecommons.org/

📣 Make sure to get your breakout session proposals in! Deadline is FRIDAY, May 15. Get your session ideas submitted ➡️ esipfed.org/jul26-sessions #esipfed #datascience #meetings #makedatamatter

What's new in #EarthScienceData? 🚀 Get the weekly Update to your inbox: esipfed.org/subscribe 👀 Go to our Community Calendar to find all ESIP Cluster Meetings ➡️ esipfed.org/community-calendar/ 💫 More about Collaboration Areas: esipfed.org/collaboration-areas/ 🧵

Only two weeks of Weather101 left this season! Don't miss your chance for some free weather education before the summer! Visit weather.gov/ohx/weather101 for the remaining list of classes until fall.

📚 What we're reading: "Explore the Sea Floor with NCEI’s Modernized Portal" from NOAA NCEI. The Bathymetric Data Viewer is an interactive map with data from multibeam and single-beam bathymetric surveys, NOS hydrographic data, crowdsourced bathymetry, digital elevation models, and much more. 👀

Understanding changes in biodiversity requires a shared baseline. Data standards, like FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data), make collective knowledge possible. 👋 Meet the Biological Data Standards Cluster! Want to learn about the work they do? ➡️ buff.ly/3peE86O

Meet our new Partner, the Texas Advanced Computing Center 🎉 The TACC at The University of Texas at Austin is the leading academic supercomputing center in the US, delivering systems, tools, and expertise to researchers making an impact. 🔎 About TACC: tacc.utexas.edu/about/about-tacc/

Key dates for the 2026 ESIP July Meeting are coming up fast! 5/15 - 💡 Session proposals due 6/15 - 🛏️ Deadline to book in hotel block 6/19 - 🐦 Early Registration deadline 6/19 - 📋 Registration Assistance application deadline 7/28-31 - ESIP Meeting!✨️ Find details ➡️ 2026julyesipmeeting.sched.com/

What's new in #EarthScienceData? 🚀 Get the weekly Update to your inbox: esipfed.org/subscribe 👀 Go to our Community Calendar to find all ESIP Cluster Meetings ➡️ esipfed.org/community-calendar/ 💫 More about Collaboration Areas: esipfed.org/collaboration-areas/ 🧵

📚 What we're reading: "Beneath the Frozen Surface: How AI Is Uncovering the Secrets of Permafrost," from NCEAS. Researchers with the Permafrost Discovery Gateway are using AI to combine satellite imagery, high-performance computing, and machine learning to open a new window into Arctic change. ❄️

By enhancing search and discovery, we empower data consumers to find and use critical Earth science data with ease. 💪 👋 Meet the Schema. org Cluster at ESIP! 🔎 Learn about the Cluster: esipfed.org/collaboration-areas/schema-org/ ➡️ Join their next call! esipfed.org/series/schema-dot-org/ 🧵

Congrats to the 2026 ESIP Raskin Scholar, Madeline Berger! 🎉 Maddie is a PhD student at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology at the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa, and a 2026 ESIP Community Fellow! 💡 More about the Raskin Scholarship: esipfed.org/student-opportunities/raskin-scholarship/

💡 Reminder: our call for sessions is open for the July 2026 Meeting. Our theme this year is Bridging Divides: Data, Technology, Community. We continue to lean into our collaborative spirit, recognizing that together we can do much more. ➡️ Session proposals due 5/15: esipfed.org/jul26-sessions

What's new in #EarthScienceData? 🚀 Get the weekly Update to your inbox: esipfed.org/subscribe 👀 Go to our Community Calendar to find all ESIP Cluster Meetings ➡️ esipfed.org/community-calendar/ 💫 More about Collaboration Areas: esipfed.org/collaboration-areas/ 🧵

Going to EGU May 4-8? Ask your data questions at the Open Science & Data Help Desk! Visit the desk during EGU26 in the Exhibit Hall, booth X208, Monday through Friday. See the schedule PLUS the lineup of demos ➡️ esipfed.org/data-help-desk/

📚 What we're reading: "Tracking Fish Through a Changing Ocean" from @developmentseed.org. The Global Fish Tracking System was used to get fish movements from biologging data, combine those with climate projections, then make the results accessible through an interactive decision-support tool. 🐟️

🌱 Join the ESIP community in what it does best – build connections and share ideas through in-person gatherings and virtual collaboration tools. Sponsors help make that magic happen. ✨️ Especially for our July ESIP Meeting. ➡️ Learn more about sponsorship: esipfed.org/sponsorship

Our world is mostly made up of water — oceans being the largest part. To understand marine systems, we need standardized data and accessible tools. 🌊 👋 Meet the Marine Data Cluster! This group is led by Carolina Berys-Gonzalez (UCSD) and Mathew Biddle (NOAA). 🔎 Learn more: buff.ly/nojVir5 🧵

At ESIP, we know that protecting our planet starts with understanding it. #EarthScienceData are the foundation for solving global challenges, from predicting weather shifts to managing natural resources. Let’s keep pushing the boundaries of what data can do for the Earth! 🛰️📊 #EarthDay #OpenData

🚨Hackathon alert! The ESIP Schema. org Cluster is partnering with DataCite to update the mapping between DataCite and Schema. org for Datasets, to be incorporated into their API. Join this Thursday, 4/23 for a ~2 hour hackathon focused on this work. Learn more and register ➡️ buff.ly/ZBag9Z3

What's new in #EarthScienceData? 🚀 Get the weekly Update to your inbox: esipfed.org/subscribe 👀 Go to our Community Calendar to find all ESIP Cluster Meetings ➡️ esipfed.org/community-calendar/ 💫 More about Collaboration Areas: esipfed.org/collaboration-areas/ 🧵

📚 What we're reading: "Synergistic Integration of Flood Inundation Modeling Methods," from Eos. A new article explores the strengths and limitations of different flood modeling methods and calls for an integrated approach to flood modeling.💧

Physical samples are vital elements of study in many disciplines, including earth sciences, biological sciences, archaeology, and beyond. 🌿🪨🦋 👋 Meet the Physical Samples Curation Cluster! The group is currently led by Andrea Thomer (University of Arizona), Natalie Raia (University of Arizona).

📣 Come to the next call for the Earth Comms Cluster TOMORROW, 4/17! We'll be joined by Daniel Male (Mariner 11) for a talk on fundamentals of Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), including core principles and current considerations for organizations and #scicomm. ➡️ Register: buff.ly/8XsJq7X

Looking for something interesting to add to your reading list this week? WDS has been reading the @esipfed.bsky.social Partner Assembly’s endorsement of the newly updated “Publishing Open Research Using Physical Samples: Guidance for Authors.” Check it out at the link below! 📖

📣 Join the ESIP Discovery Cluster TOMORROW, 4/16 for their next seminar! Hear from Mingfang Wu (ARDC) for a talk on user-centric recommendations for research data repositories. The topic follows a recent paper from the RDA Data Discovery Paradigms interest group.🌎 ➡️ Register: buff.ly/61QwR68

We strive to make our ESIP Meetings as inclusive as possible. Registration fees are necessary, but we don't want them to stop someone from attending. That's why we offer registration assistance: esipfed.org/jul26-waiver Early bird rates are here until June 19.🐦 ➡️ 2026julyesipmeeting.sched.com

What's new in #EarthScienceData? 🚀 Get the weekly Update to your inbox: esipfed.org/subscribe 👀 Go to our Community Calendar to find all ESIP Cluster Meetings ➡️ esipfed.org/community-calendar/ 💫 More about Collaboration Areas: esipfed.org/collaboration-areas/ 🧵

Recent flood modeling advances are trending into silos that compete rather than complement each other, hampering the opportunity for transformative progress toward protecting lives and communities. 🔗 Learn more in @eos.org: buff.ly/NPDFC5X #AGUPubs #Flooding @reviewsgeophysics.bsky.social

🚀 HMC Project Call 2026 open! Have an idea to improve #metadata, #FAIRdata, or research data infrastructure? Apply for funding and turn it into a collaborative project across #Helmholtz. Deadline: 3 July 2026 👉 helmholtz-metadaten.de/hmc-project-... @helmholtz.de @helmholtzimaging.bsky.social

📢 Deadline Extended: Support the EGU Data Help Desk! EGU has made available 2 free registrations for DHD volunteers – reach out to [email protected] to inquire about this benefit. ✨️ Ways to support: 💡Answer questions 📚 Share resources 💫 Give a demo Interested? Let us know by April 21!

📚 What we're reading: "GIS in the Classroom: Students Reconnect a Community with Its Roots," from Esri ArcWatch. Despite the challenges of working in a small, rural school district with limited resources, students wove together narrative text, historical documents, images, and geospatial data.

Bridging the gap between climate science and farming is needed to protect our food systems and ensure long-term agricultural resilience. 🌽 👋 Meet the Agriculture & Climate Cluster! After a multi-year hiatus, this group is resuming monthly calls and has a great linup of talks coming your way! 🧵

Call for ESIP July 2026 Meeting session proposals! 🎉 We seek submissions from the #EarthScienceData community, especially those relevant to this year’s theme, "Bridging Divides: Data, Technology, Community." 📆 Due date: 5/15 ➡️ Call for Sessions: esipfed.org/jul26-sessions #openscience #ESIP2026