Earth and Space Science Informatics



IN001
Achieving the ‘R’ of the FAIR Data Principles: Reusability is the Biggest Challenge, but the Most Rewarding!
Primary Convener:  Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Convener:  Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, UNITED STATES
Primary Liaison:  Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia


IN002
Advanced Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure for Deep Learning
Primary Convener:  Ziheng Sun, George Mason University Fairfax, Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, Fairfax, VA, United States
Conveners:  Liping Di, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States, Daniel Tong, George Mason University Foundation Inc., Columbia, MD, United States and Annie Bryant Burgess, Federation of Earth Science Information Partners, Portland, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ziheng Sun, George Mason University Fairfax, Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, Fairfax, VA, United States


IN003
Advancing Capabilities to Enable Current and Future Use of Earth and Space Science Data
Primary Convener:  Robert R Downs, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Hampapuram Ramapriyan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Rorie Edmunds, ICSU World Data System, Tokyo, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Robert R Downs, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, NY, United States


IN004
Advancing FAIR Data Principles While Preserving Data Ownership, Privacy, and Integrity
Primary Convener:  Liza Brazil, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Tho Nguyen, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Jon Pollak, CUAHSI, Boston, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Liza Brazil, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Washington, DC, United States


IN005
AI for Model and Data Integration in the Geosciences
Primary Convener:  Daniel R Fuka, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States and IS-GEO RCN Team
Conveners:  Yolanda Gil1, Daniel Garijo1, Deana D Pennington2 and IS-GEO RCN Team, (1)University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States(2)University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Daniel R Fuka, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States and IS-GEO RCN Team


IN006
Scalable Cloud Optimized Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for Earth Science Big Data and Analytics
Primary Convener:  Sudhir R Shrestha, ESRI, Redlands, CA, United States and daniel duffy
Conveners:  Daniel Duffy, NASA Center for Climate Simulation, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert Edward Wolfe, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Manil Maskey, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and daniel duffy
Primary Liaison:  Dawn Wright, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA, United States and daniel duffy


IN007
Airborne Data are Unique: Methods and Ideas for Improving Policies, Metadata Standards, Data Storage, Discovery, and Use
Primary Convener:  Deborah K Smith, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Jeanne le Roux, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Heather Holbach, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Hurricane Research Division, Miami, FL, United States and Jonathan Zawislak, University of Miami/CIMAS, NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division, Miami, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Deborah K Smith, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States


IN008
Application Optimized Data Stores: Getting Data into the Pockets of Decision-makers and Citizen Scientists
Primary Convener:  Andrew Bollinger, Development Seed, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Damon Burgett, Mapbox, Satellite, Vashon, WA, United States and Joe Flasher, Amazon Web Services, Washington DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Andrew Bollinger, Development Seed, Washington, DC, United States


IN009
Applications of Free and Open-Source Technologies for Advancing Earth and Space Science
Primary Convener:  Timothy Mayer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Francisco Jose Delgado, USRA, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, Manil Maskey, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and Sarva Teja Pulla, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Timothy Mayer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States


IN010
Assessment and developments in the structured metadata developer tool chain for Schema.org and associated extensions
Primary Convener:  Adam Leadbetter, Irish Marine Institute, Ocean Science and Information Services, Galway, Ireland
Convener:  Adam Shepherd, Woods Hole Oceangraphic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Adam Leadbetter, Irish Marine Institute, Ocean Science and Information Services, Galway, Ireland


IN011
Autonomy for Future NASA Earth and Space Science Missions
Primary Convener:  Michael S Seablom, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Florence Tan, NASA Headquarters, Science Missions Directorate, Washington, DC, United States and Terry Fong, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Florence Tan, NASA Headquarters, Science Missions Directorate, Washington, DC, United States


IN012
Best Practices and Realities of Research Data Repositories
Primary Convener:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Perth, Perth, WA, Australia
Conveners:  Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Data Programs, Washington, DC, United States and Danie Kinkade, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO Earth Science Resource Engineering, Perth, Australia


IN014
Challenges and Solutions to Capture Measurement Uncertainties in Standardized Metadata for Earth Science Observations
Primary Convener:  Yaxing Wei, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Gao Chen, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States, Deborah Smith, NASA IMPACT Project, Airborne Data Management Group, Huntsville, AL, United States and Makhan L Virdi, U.S. Geological Survey, Tampa, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yaxing Wei, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


IN015
Citizen Science in Earth Sciences: Enabling New Ways of Answering Questions About Our Planet
Primary Convener:  Amanda Whitehurst, ASRC Federal Holding Company, Beltsville, MD, United States
Conveners:  Allison Leidner1, Lin H Chambers2 and Kevin J Murphy1, (1)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States(2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Amanda Whitehurst, ASRC Federal Holding Company, Beltsville, MD, United States


IN016
Coastal Change Measurement
Primary Convener:  Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, Clark University, Geography, Worcester, MA, United States
Convener:  James T Morris, University of South Carolina, Baruch Institute, Columbia, SC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, Clark University, Geography, Worcester, MA, United States


IN017
Communities, Tools and Policies that Enable Integration of Earth, Space and Environmental Science Data and Cyberinfrastructures
Primary Convener:  Erin Robinson, Foundation for Earth Science Information Partners, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Helen Glaves, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Yasuhiro Murayama, Integrated Science Data System Research Lab., Tokyo, Japan and Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia


IN018
Computing at the Edge for Earth Science
Primary Convener:  Scott M Collis, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States
Conveners:  Aaron Ian Packman, Northwestern Univeristy, Evanston, IL, United States, Peter H Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States and Vivien Anne Rivera, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Scott M Collis, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States


IN019
Data and Information Services for Interdisciplinary Research and Applications in Earth Science
Primary Convener:  Vasco Manuel Mantas, University of Coimbra, Department of Earth Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal
Conveners:  Zhong Liu1, Jennifer C Wei1 and Menglin Jin2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)University of Maryland - College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Vasco Manuel Mantas, University of Coimbra, Department of Earth Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal


IN020
Data Integration: Enabling the Acceleration of Science Through Connectivity, Collaboration, and Convergent Science
Primary Convener:  Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Data Programs, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Nancy A Ritchey, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, United States, Michelle Heacock, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, NC, United States and Sky Bristol, USGS Headquarters, Reston, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Data Programs, Washington, DC, United States


IN021
Data-Oriented and Self-Optimizing Architectures and Workflows for Earth, Space and Climate Science Applications
Primary Convener:  Christian Page, CERFACS European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation, Toulouse Cedex 01, France
Conveners:  Iraklis Angelos Klampanos, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Agia Paraskevi, Greece, Rosa Filgueira, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom and Alessandro Spinuso, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Christian Page, CERFACS, Climate Modeling and Global Change, Toulouse, France


IN022
Digital Transformation of Earth Science Cloud: providing users with easy access to large data collections with scalable computing
Primary Convener:  Gerald L Potter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Tsengdar J Lee1, Thomas Patrick Maxwell2 and Mark Carroll2, (1)NASA, Burke, VA, United States(2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tsengdar J Lee, NASA, Burke, VA, United States


IN023
Earth and Space Science Informatics General Contributions
Primary Convener:  Mark A Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tetherless World Constellation, Troy, NY, United States
Conveners:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO Earth Science Resource Engineering, Perth, Australia, Jane K Hart, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom and Sudhir R Shrestha, Esri, Vienna, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mark A Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tetherless World Constellation, Troy, NY, United States


IN024
Earth Observation Solutions to Address the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals: Connecting Water, Energy, Land Use, and Food Security
Primary Convener:  Argyro Kavvada, NASA Headquarters/ Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Alyssa K Whitcraft, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Richard Eckman, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Lawrence Friedl, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Douglas Cripe, GEO Group on Earth Observations, Geneva, Switzerland


IN025
Earth Observations for Sustainable Development
Primary Convener:  Gina Tsarouchi, HR Wallingford, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Darren Lumbroso, HR Wallingford, Wallingford, United Kingdom, Liz Cox, UK Space Agency, Swindon, United Kingdom and Yifang Ban, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Primary Liaison:  Gina Tsarouchi, HR Wallingford, Wallingford, United Kingdom


IN026
Environmental sensor networks
Primary Convener:  Misha Krassovski, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Convener:  Jeffery S Riggs, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Misha Krassovski, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


IN027
Error Assessment and Propagation in Land Change Science
Primary Convener:  Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, Clark University, Geography, Worcester, MA, United States
Conveners:  Lyndon D Estes, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Pontus Olofsson, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States and Meha Jain, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, Clark University, Geography, Worcester, MA, United States


IN028
Expand your data and your reach; the value proposition of citizen science data.
Primary Convener:  Heather A Fischer, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Convener:  Peder Nelson, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Heather A Fischer, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States


IN029
Exploration and Importance of Data Usage Metrics and Altmetrics
Primary Convener:  Debjani Deb, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Chung-Lin Shie, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert R Downs, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, NY, United States and Dalia Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Debjani Deb, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


IN030
Geomagnetically Induced Currents and Their Impact on Technology
Primary Convener:  Chigomezyo Mudala Ngwira, Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates, LLC, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Antti A Pulkkinen, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jennifer L Gannon, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Geoffrey Crowley, ASTRA, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Chigomezyo Mudala Ngwira, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States


IN031
Geospatial Intelligence: Data-Driven Research in the Earth Sciences
Primary Convener:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Perth, Perth, WA, Australia
Conveners:  Orhun Aydin, ESRI, Redlands, CA, United States, Emily Law, CalTech JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States and Warren T Wood, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Ctr, MS, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO Earth Science Resource Engineering, Perth, Australia


IN032
When to identify and cite data and other research objects
Primary Convener:  Mark A Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tetherless World Constellation, Troy, NY, United States
Conveners:  Nancy J Hoebelheinrich, Knowledge Motifs LLC, San Mateo, CA, United States, Chung-Yi Hou, National Center for Atmospheric Research / University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Natalie K Meyers, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mark A Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tetherless World Constellation, Troy, NY, United States


IN033
Incorporating physics and domain knowledge to improve interpretability, explainability, reliability and generalization of Machine Learning Models (MLM) in the geosciences
Primary Convener:  Karthik Kashinath, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Savini Manthila Samarasinghe1, Benjamin A Toms1 and Pierre F J Lermusiaux2, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States(2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Karthik Kashinath, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


IN034
Leptoukh Lecture for the Earth and Space Science Informatics Section
Primary Convener:  Mark A Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tetherless World Constellation, Troy, NY, United States
Conveners:  Helen Glaves, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Denise J Hills, Geological Survey of Alabama, Energy Investigations Program, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and Jane K Hart, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Helen Glaves, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, United Kingdom


IN035
Making Data Uncertainty Information FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable
Primary Convener:  David F Moroni, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Hampapuram Ramapriyan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Ge Peng, NC State University and NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, North Carolina (CICS-NC), Asheville, NC, United States and Robert R Downs, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  David F Moroni, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


IN036
Making Moving Small Science Instruments and their data FAIR
Primary Convener:  Janet Wyngaard, University of Notre Dame, Center for Research Computing, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Conveners:  Daina Bouquin, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Library Science, Cambridge, MA, United States and Lindsay Barbieri, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Janet Wyngaard, University of Notre Dame, Center for Research Computing, Notre Dame, IN, United States


IN037
ML applications supporting the usability of big data in Earth science
Primary Convener:  Brian Freitag, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Manil Maskey, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States; NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and Andrew Bollinger, Development Seed, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Aaron S Kaulfus, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States


IN038
Near Real Time/Low Latency Data for Earth Science and Space Weather Applications
Primary Convener:  H Michael Goodman, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Gerald W Bawden, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, Diane K Davies, Trigg-Davies Consulting Ltd., Malvern, United Kingdom and Robert J Redmon, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Geophysical Science Branch - Solar and Terrestrial Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  H Michael Goodman, NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Huntsville, AL, United States


IN039
New Observing Strategies for Monitoring Water Resources and Events
Primary Convener:  Jacqueline Le Moigne, NASA, Earth Science Technology Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Michael M Little, NASA, Earth Science Technology Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Gerald W Bawden, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States and Benjamin D Smith, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jacqueline Le Moigne, NASA, Earth Science Technology Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States


IN040
Open Knowledge Networks and Semantics for Geosciences
Primary Convener:  Ibrahim Demir, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
Conveners:  Lewis John McGibbney, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Pier Luigi Buttigieg, J&FE, Chief Scientist, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ibrahim Demir, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States


IN041
Recent Innovations in Open Science Platforms: Data and Algorithm Sharing Usher in a New Era of Earth Science
Primary Convener:  Aimee Barciauskas, Development Seed, Washington DC, DC, United States
Conveners:  Chris Lynnes, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Marco Lavalle, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Amanda Whitehurst, ASRC Federal Holding Company, Beltsville, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Aimee Barciauskas, Development Seed, Washington DC, DC, United States


IN042
Satellites providing critical support for environmental disaster Monitoring and Response: from TIROS-1, the US's first weather satellite, to the current generation of environmental satellites
Primary Convener:  Gary McWilliams, Science and Technology Corporation, Boulder, CO, United States
Convener:  Mitch Goldberg, JPSS Program Office, NOAA/NESDIS, Lanham, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  William Sjoberg, GST contractor for NOAA/NESDIS JPSS Program Office, Lanham, MD, United States


IN043
Standards for the Benefit of Science and Society
Primary Convener:  Siri-Jodha S Khalsa, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Jay Pearlman, IEEE, Seattle, WA, United States, Ingo Simonis, Open Geospatial Consortium, Frankfurt, Germany and Charles S Zender, Univ California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Siri-Jodha S Khalsa, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States


IN044
Technical, Social, and Ethical Dimensions of using Crowdsourced Data for Research and Practice
Primary Convener:  Carolynne Hultquist, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Convener:  Courtney Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, Geography, State College, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Carolynne Hultquist, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States


IN045
Terra@20:  Data System Evolution to Advance Climate Research
Primary Convener:  Jeanne Behnke, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Chris Doescher, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Daniel Ziskin, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Amanda Leon, National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jeanne Behnke, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States


IN046
Tools and Databases for Solar and Planetary Sciences at the Big Data Era
Primary Convener:  Baptiste Cecconi, Observatoire de Paris, PSL, CNRS, LESIA, Meudon, France
Conveners:  Alexandria Ware, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Emily Law, CalTech JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Baptiste Cecconi, Paris Observatory Meudon, Meudon, France


IN047
Tracks across the Ocean, Sky, and Land
Primary Convener:  Bruce E Wilson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Heather Holbach, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Hurricane Research Division, Miami, FL, United States, Deborah Smith, NASA IMPACT Project, Airborne Data Management Group, Huntsville, AL, United States and Shawn R Smith, Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bruce E Wilson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


IN048
Transforming Earth and Planetary Science with Mixed Reality and Other Innovative Visualization Solutions
Primary Convener:  Charles K Thompson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Shayna Skolnik, Navteca, Greenbelt, MD, UNITED STATES and Joe T Roberts, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Charles K Thompson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


IN049
Visual Communication in Science: New Ideas, Best Practices, Great Tools, Awesome Examples
Primary Convener:  Richard Saltus, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Alexandria Ware, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Francesca Samsel, University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Austin, TX, United States and Erin Lefevre, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Richard Saltus, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States


IN050
What Works -- and How(!?):  Sharing Successful Approaches to Educating Research Teams on Research Data Management and Related Data Skills
Primary Convener:  Nancy J Hoebelheinrich, Knowledge Motifs LLC, San Mateo, CA, United States
Conveners:  Karl K Benedict, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Chung-Yi Hou, National Center for Atmospheric Research / University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Primary Liaison:  Karl K Benedict, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States


IN051
Who's at Risk? Assessing Population and Infrastructure Exposure and Vulnerability for Hazard, Climate, and Health Applications
Primary Convener:  Robert S Chen, Columbia University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Andrea E Gaughan, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States, Charles K Huyck, ImageCat, Inc., Long Beach, CA, United States and Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Robert S Chen, Columbia University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, NY, United States


A055
Deep Learning for improving short-term atmospheric modeling and prediction
Primary Convener:  Ziheng Sun, George Mason University Fairfax, Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, Fairfax, VA, United States
Convener:  Daniel Tong, George Mason University Foundation Inc., Columbia, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ziheng Sun, George Mason University Fairfax, Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, Fairfax, VA, United States


A123
The Current and Future Scientific Impact of Small Satellites on Space Missions
Primary Convener:  Charles D Norton, NASA Headquarters, Science Mission Directorate, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  David M Klumpar, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States and Pamela Millar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Charles D Norton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


A137
Use of Machine Learning and Causal Discovery to Advance Knowledge in the Atmospheric Sciences – Methods, Limitations and Trade-offs
Primary Convener:  Benjamin Brown-Steiner, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States
Conveners:  Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Christiane Jablonowski, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Benjamin Brown-Steiner, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States


B015
Agro-geoinformatics: Connecting geospatial technologies with agriculture
Primary Convener:  Eugene Yu, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
Conveners:  Liping Di, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States, Feng Gao, USDA-Agricultural Research Service Beltsville, Hydrology and Remote Sensing, Beltsville, MD, United States and Zhengwei Yang, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Research and Development Division, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Eugene Yu, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States


B108
Surface-Atmosphere Interactions: Latest Developments and Emerging Approaches for Ecosystem Flux Data Analysis
Primary Convener:  Anne Griebel, Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Richmond, NSW, Australia
Conveners:  George G Burba, LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, NE, United States, Stefan Metzger, National Ecological Observatory Network Program, Battelle, Boulder, CO, United States and Gilberto Pastorello, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Anne Griebel, Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Richmond, NSW, Australia


ED002
Actions and Perspectives on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in the Earth and Space Sciences
Primary Convener:  Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Conveners:  Sarah Ramdeen, Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship, Westminster, CO, United States, Petra Dekens, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States and Corey Garza, California State University Monterey Bay, School Of Natural Sciences, Seaside, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia


ED022
Dirty Stories of Data Rescue: Sharing Successes and Learning Opportunities to Improve Workflows
Primary Convener:  Denise J Hills, Geological Survey of Alabama, Energy Investigations Program, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Conveners:  Shane Michael Hanlon, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States, Simon J Goring, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Stephen C Diggs, Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Denise J Hills, Geological Survey of Alabama, Energy Investigations Program, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States


ED023
Earth Data Science Education: Training Earth Scientists for Interdisciplinary Work on New and Emerging Approaches
Primary Convener:  Orhun Aydin, ESRI, Redlands, CA, United States
Conveners:  Deana D Pennington, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, Sudhir R Shrestha, Esri, Vienna, VA, United States and Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States


EP002
Advances in uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) use for Earth and planetary observation
Primary Convener:  Daven Patel Quinn, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Conveners:  Alistair Hayden1, Emily Mason2 and Nathaniel Stein1, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States(2)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Daven Patel Quinn, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI, United States


EP013
Data-driven approaches toward understanding Earth surface processes on continental and global scales
Primary Convener:  Shuang Zhang, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Conveners:  Tao Wen, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Jens Hartmann, Universität Hamburg, Geosciences / Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), Hamburg, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Shuang Zhang, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States


GC014
Climate Science in the Age of Deep Learning and Machine Learning
Primary Convener:  Donald D Lucas, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Conveners:  Steve M Easterbrook, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Gemma Jayne Anderson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Donald D Lucas, LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States


GC089
Uniting Advances in Remote Sensing, Earth System Modeling, and Social Sciences to Improve Risk Management
Primary Convener:  Elinor Benami, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Eric Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, Shanna N. McClain, NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences, Washington, DC, United States and Zhenong Jin, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, Saint Paul, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elinor Benami, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States


H022
Advancing Water Science with Convergence Research
Primary Convener:  Danielle Tijerina, CUAHSI, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Jon Pollak, CUAHSI, Boston, MA, United States, Anthony M Castronova, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Washington, DC, United States and Lilit Yeghiazarian, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Danielle Tijerina, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States


H045
Domain-Aware Machine Learning for Subsurface Applications
Primary Convener:  Alexandre M Tartakovsky, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Hari Selvi Viswanathan1, Bailian Chen1 and Jianchun Xu2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States(2)China University of Petroleum (East China), Department of Petroleum Engineering, Qingdao, China
Primary Liaison:  Zhenyu Guo, Occidental Petroleum Corporation, Houston, United States


NG004
Data Assimilation meets Machine Learning
Primary Convener:  Peter Jan van Leeuwen, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Kayo Ide, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Alan Geer, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Peter Jan van Leeuwen, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States


NG008
Machine Learning in Space Weather
Primary Convener:  Enrico Camporeale, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States; University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Jacob Bortnik, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Tomoko Matsuo, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Ryan Michael McGranaghan, Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates (ASTRA), Louisville, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Enrico Camporeale, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States; University of Colorado, Boulder, United States


NS003
A tour of open-source software packages for the geosciences
Primary Convener:  Lindsey Justine Heagy, University of California Berkeley, Department of Statistics, Berkeley, United States
Conveners:  Rene Gassmoeller, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States, Leonardo Uieda, University of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology, Honolulu, HI, United States and Jens F Klump, CSIRO Earth Science Resource Engineering, Perth, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Lindsey Justine Heagy, University of California Berkeley, Department of Statistics, Berkeley, United States


PA001
Actionable Climate Tools and Data: Rigorous, Accessible Products Tailored to User Needs
Primary Convener:  Owen M Doherty, Eagle Rock Analytics, Sacramento, CA, United States
Conveners:  David Herring, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Marjorie B. Kaplan, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Rutgers Climate Institute, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Martine Schmidt-Poolman, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Owen M Doherty, Eagle Rock Analytics, Sacramento, CA, United States


PA015
Creating Harmony: Enabling the Composition of Science and Applications through Promoting Data Access and Sharing in Developing Regions
Primary Convener:  Amanda (Weigel) Markert, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Convener:  Jennifer Shinen, US Department of State, Washington D.C., United States
Primary Liaison:  Amanda (Weigel) Markert, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States


PA030
Issues in Data Policy: The Ethics of Using Open Data Sets and Open Software in Geophysical Research
Primary Convener:  Kathleen S Fontaine, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tetherless World Constellation, Troy, NY, United States
Conveners:  Denise J Hills, Geological Survey of Alabama, Energy Investigations Program, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Lindsay Barbieri, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States and Erin Robinson, Foundation for Earth Science Information Partners, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kathleen S Fontaine, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tetherless World Constellation, Troy, NY, United States


P022
Machine Learning for Planetary Science
Primary Convener:  Hannah Rae Kerner, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Joern Helbert
Conveners:  Klaus-Michael Aye, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Mario D'Amore, German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Jörn Helbert, DLR, Berlin, Germany and Joern Helbert
Primary Liaison:  Hannah Rae Kerner, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Joern Helbert


SA009
Investigating the Behavior of Multiscale Processes in the ITM system
Primary Convener:  Larry J Paxton, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Yue Deng, University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, Delores J Knipp, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Philip John Erickson, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Larry J Paxton, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States


SH007
Frontier Discovery from the Whole Heliosphere and Planetary Interactions (WHPI) Initiative
Primary Convener:  Ryan Michael McGranaghan, Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates (ASTRA), Louisville, CO, United States
Conveners:  Giuliana de Toma, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Gina A DiBraccio, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Sarah E Gibson, NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Giuliana de Toma, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States


SM005
Applications of Data Science and Engineering to Magnetospheric Physics and Aeronomy
Primary Convener:  Bharat Kunduri, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Conveners:  Maimaitirebike Maimaiti, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Asti Bhatt, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Ashton Seth Reimer, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Bharat Kunduri, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States


T003
Advances in Computational Geosciences
Primary Convener:  Jed Brown, University of Colorado at Boulder, Computer Science, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, Georg S Reuber, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany and Nathan Collier, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Earth Sciences, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jed Brown, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States


U001
100 years of Technological Advances in the Earth and Space Sciences
Primary Convener:  Jane K Hart, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Michael S Seablom, NASA, Washington, DC, United States, Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, Electronics and Computer Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom and Geoff Bland, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Flight Facility, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Geoff Bland, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Flight Facility, Greenbelt, MD, United States


U007
(Inter)National Treasures: Advancing Earth, Environmental, & Planetary Sciences Through Access, Accreditation, and Use of Natural History Samples and Collections
Primary Convener:  Kerstin Lehnert, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Convener:  Lindsay A Powers, US Geological Survey, National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program, Denver, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, UNITED STATES


V017
Data-Driven Discoveries in Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Primary Convener:  Fang Huang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tetherless World Constellation, Troy, NY, United States
Conveners:  Shaunna M Morrison, Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States, Tao Wen, Pennsylvania State University, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States and Anirudh Prabhu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tetherless World Constellation, Troy, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Shaunna M Morrison, Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States