A Home for EARTH SCIENCE DATA Professionals

ESIP is a nonprofit organization that provides a neutral space for exciting cross-domain collaborations. If you’re working to make Earth science data actionable, we’re your professional home.

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Bring your expertise to the table in whatever capacity you prefer: come to the next ESIP Meeting, join a collaboration area, or anything in between.

For quick answers to technical questions, join us on Slack!

Find a Collaboration Area

We have over 30 collaboration areas working in diverse domains to tackle common data challenges and opportunities. Anyone is welcome to join, so find your fit and get involved.

Check Out the ESIP Lab

The ESIP Lab provides microfunding for innovative Earth science technology research projects. Review our latest RFP and view funded projects.

Join Upcoming Events

From Collaboration Area telecons to twice-annual ESIP Meetings, our calendar is full of collaborative opportunities. Join us.

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Maybe you’ve heard ESIP dropped in casual conversation at EGU, AGU, or AMS. Or maybe you’ve heard about us through our primary funders: NOAA, NASA, and USGS.

But what is ESIP, exactly?

It’s simple: We’re a nonprofit that creates space for Earth scientists, researchers, data professionals, and other domain experts to come together. We provide the space, the support, and (for some projects) the funding.

What ultimately comes from these collaborations? That’s up to you, our community!

More About ESIP

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We welcome enthusiastic participation from anyone who’s leveraging Earth science data to tackle critical challenges, no matter which domain you work in.

ESIP is an organization of organizations, but you do not have to be a member of an ESIP Partner organization to participate in our activities. Please join us by:

Joining a Collaboration Area
Checking out our community calendar
Attending our next ESIP Meeting

To get in on the conversation happening right now, hop on over to Slack.

Get Involved

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Looking to collaborate with other organizations working toward your same goals? Join us as ESIP Partner.

We welcome applications from industry, government, academic, research and not-for-profit organizations. Partnership is free and gives you access to ESIP Lab funding, leadership positions, voting rights, and more.

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ESIP Collaboration Areas

ESIP is home to about 30 Collaboration Areas. Initiatives are authored and executed by participants, and anyone is welcome to join.

Community Ontology Repository (COR)

Council of Data Facilities (CDF)

Information Quality

Semantic Harmonization

Meetings Committee

Enviro Sensing

Coalition on Publishing Data (COPDESS)

Marine Data

Nominating Committee

Biological Data Standards

Soil Ontology and Informatics

Partnership Committee

Disaster Lifecycle

IT&I Committee

Physical Sample Curation

Operational Ethics

Open Science

Sustainable Data Management

Data Stewardship Committee

Discovery

Semantic Technologies Committee

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Meet the ESIP Community

What I do: Repurpose neglected data to investigate how communities change over time, using a combination of genomics and Earth science methods.

Why I do it: Because I believe we have a responsibility to the public to maximize data use to understand the natural world and our place in it.

Alexis Garretson , 2023 Raskin Scholar

What we do: Interdisciplinary social science offers insights into the beliefs, behaviors and systems that affect the Earth sciences.

Why we are ESIP Partners: Innovation and accessible data means connecting social science findings to Earth science system technology.

Knology , ESIP Partner, Type II - Product and Service Providers Visit Knology

“With ESIP Lab funding, we transitioned a hydrologic modal from “research grade” to cloud-based operations for watersheds on three continents.”

Assistant Professor , Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University

What we do: Using the core schema.org vocabulary, we develop domain-specific practices for publishing and harvesting structured Earth science data.

Why we do it: To support improved search and discovery of scientific resources on the web.

Adam Shepherd (BCO-DMO) and Doug Fils (Ocean Leadership) , Cluster Co-Chairs

30

Collaboration Areas

$120K

in ESIP Lab microfunding each year

170+

ESIP Partners

80

Community-driven ESIP meeting sessions each year