Earth and Space Science Informatics



3D Geomodelling: International Status, Barriers, and Perspectives
Primary Convener:  Philippe Calcagno, Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières - French Geological Survey, Orleans, France
Convener:  Simon Lopez, Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières - French Geological Survey, Orleans, France
Primary Liaison:  Philippe Calcagno, Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières - French Geological Survey, Orleans, France


A Moonshot Ambition: Creating a Globally Integrated infrastructure to Find, Access, Interoperate and Reuse Earth and Environmental Science Data to address Global Challenges.
Primary Convener:  Anca Ioana Hienola, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Conveners:  Jacco Konijn, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Amber E Budden, DataONE, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jacco Konijn, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands


Accelerating Artificial Intelligence in Earth Science: Parallel Computing and Big Earth Data
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, Annie Burgess, Earth Science Information Partners, Severna Park, MD, United States and Nicoleta C Cristea, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ziheng Sun, George Mason University Fairfax, Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, Fairfax, VA, United States


Accelerating Science: The Moment When the Value of Sharing Data Surpasses the Activity Required for Preservation
Primary Convener:  Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Data Leadership, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Caroline Coward, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Justin James Henry Buck, National Oceanography Center, BODC, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Data Leadership, Washington, DC, United States


Adopting Principles to Enhance Capabilities for Using Earth Science Data
Primary Convener:  Robert R Downs, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, NY, United States
Convener:  Hampapuram Ramapriyan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Robert R Downs, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, NY, United States


Advances in Earth and Space Science Informatics
Primary Convener:  Sudhir R Shrestha, NOAA Office of Water Prediction, Geo-Intelligence Division, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Conveners:  Binita KC, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Manil Maskey, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, MSFC, Huntsville, AL, United States and Jens F Klump, CSIRO, Mineral Resources, Kensington, WA, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Sudhir R Shrestha, Esri, Vienna, VA, United States


Advancing Open Science: Stewardship to Enable Cross Disciplinary, Collaborative Science
Primary Convener:  Kaylin Bugbee, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Emily Law, CalTech JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States and Emily Foshee, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kaylin Bugbee, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States


Advancing Scientific Data Visualization With Emerging Ecosystems of Technology and Practice
Primary Convener:  Joe T Roberts, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Nick Hedley, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, Chris Johnson, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States and Karen Yuen, JPL/NASA, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joe T Roberts, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


Advancing the CF Conventions for NetCDF
Primary Convener:  Ethan Davis, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Daniel Lee, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, Antonio S Cofino, Santander Meteorology Group, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain and Kevin O'Brien, University of Washington/CICOES, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ethan Davis, UCAR Unidata, Boulder, CO, United States


Analysis-ready data and analysis- in-place services for weather and climate hazards research and applications in Earth Science
Primary Convener:  Binita KC, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Jennifer Wei1, Stephanie Schollaert Uz2 and Helen Amos2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jennifer Wei, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Applications of hydroinformatics approaches and techniques to water resources management in agriculture
Primary Convener:  Paul Celicourt, Laval University, Soils and Agri-Food Engineering, Quebec City, QC, Canada
Conveners:  Silvio Gumiere, Université Laval, Soils and Agri-Food Engineering, Québec, QC, Canada, Matteo Camporese, University of Padova, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Padova, Italy, Alain N Rousseau, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Eau Terre Environnement INRS-ETE, Quebec City, QC, Canada and Jerad Bales, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Thiago Gumiere, Laval University, Soils and Agri-Food Engineering, Quebec, QC, Canada


Applications of unsupervised machine learning to discover patterns in geological and geophysical data
Primary Convener:  Bulbul Ahmmed, Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES 16, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Drew L Siler, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Maruti Kumar Mudunuru, University Of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bulbul Ahmmed, Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES 16, Los Alamos, NM, United States


Best Practices and Realities of Research Data Repositories
Primary Convener:  Kirsten Elger, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Conveners:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO, Mineral Resources, Kensington, WA, Australia, Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Helen Glaves, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Kirsten Elger, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Library and Information Services, Potsdam, Germany


Challenges and best practices for using UAV in field research
Primary Convener:  Misha Krassovski, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO, Mineral Resources, Kensington, WA, Australia, Guru Siddeswara, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia and Lindsay Barbieri, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO, Mineral Resources, Kensington, WA, Australia


Climate Model Computational Performance: State of the Practice
Primary Convener:  Sarat Sreepathi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Venkatramani Balaji, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, Phil Jones, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Sadie Bartholomew, University of Reading, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Reading, United Kingdom and Mario Acosta, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Earth Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
Primary Liaison:  Sarat Sreepathi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


Cloud Computing's Support for Earth and Space Informatics has Become a Sophisticated Solution to Computing Needs
Primary Convener:  Michael M Little, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, CISTO (Code 606), Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Karen E Petraska, NASA, Gambrills, MD, United States, Tyler Hardy, Amazon Web Services, Denver, CO, United States, Daniel Duffy, NASA Center for Climate Simulation, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Daniel J Crichton, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Michael M Little, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States


Commercial Earth Observation Data: Research and Applications
Primary Convener:  Alfreda Hall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Manil Maskey, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, MSFC, Huntsville, AL, United States, Will McCarty, NASA/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Kevin J Murphy, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alfreda Hall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Complex human-natural systems on Earth and in Space
Primary Convener:  Ryan Michael McGranaghan, ASTRA, LLC, Louisville, CO, United States
Conveners:  Danielle Wood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Media Arts and Sciences; Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cambridge, MA, United States, David Matteson, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Judy P Che-Castaldo, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ryan Michael McGranaghan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States


Connecting Disciplines and Data in Earth and Environmental Synthesis Research: Enabling Interdisciplinary Data Discovery, Integration, and Reuse
Primary Convener:  Joan E Damerow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Lindsay A Powers, US Geological Survey, National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program, Denver, CO, United States, Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Corinna Gries, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joan E Damerow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


Data and Information Services for Interdisciplinary Research and Applications in Earth Science
Primary Convener:  Menglin Jin, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Zhong Liu
Conveners:  Zhong Liu, NASA GSFC GES DISC (CSISS, George Mason University), Greenbelt, MD, United States, Vasco Manuel Mantas, University of Coimbra, Portugal, Department of Earth Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal, Jennifer Wei, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Zhong Liu
Primary Liaison:  Jennifer Wei, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Zhong Liu


Earth and Space Science Sensing: informatics, challenges and innovation
Primary Convener:  Jane K Hart, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
Convener:  Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, Electronics and Computer Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, Electronics and Computer Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom


Earth science informatics for combating COVID-19
Primary Convener:  Chaowei Phil Yang, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
Convener:  Yun Li, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Qian Liu, Ocean University of China, Marine Chemistry, Qingdao, China


Emerging Cloud-based Technologies for Earth Science Data Archival and Analysis
Primary Convener:  Geoffrey T Stano, Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Convener:  Leigh Sinclair, Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Geoffrey T Stano, NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center (SPoRT) / ENSCO, Inc., Huntsville, AL, United States


Experience in using artificial intelligence in research and applications and development opportunities.
Primary Convener:  Vladimir A Kontar, Federal GEOS Funding, Phoenix, AZ, United States
Convener:  Lyubov M Shlafman, Federal GEOS Funding, Phoenix, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Evgeny Egorov, Federal GEOS Funding, Phoenix, AZ, United States


Growing Opportunities for Multi-Party Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Science Research
Primary Convener:  Megan Ansdell, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Srija Chakraborty, Arizona State University, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision System Engineering, Tempe, AZ, United States, Madhulika Guhathakurta, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and Michael M Little, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Megan Ansdell, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States


Knowledge graph construction and application in geosciences
Primary Convener:  Xiaogang Ma, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States
Conveners:  Anirudh Prabhu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tetherless World Constellation, Troy, NY, United States, Wenwen Li, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ, United States and Ryan Michael McGranaghan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xiaogang Ma, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States


Leveraging Deep Generative Models and Self-supervised Learning techniques in Earth Science Observations
Primary Convener:  Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Iksha Gurung1, Anirudh Koul2 and Aaron S Kaulfus1, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States(2)Pinterest, San Francisco, United States
Primary Liaison:  Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States


NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Program Satellites - Building on the Success of the Past to Prepare for the Challenges of the Future
Primary Convener:  Gary McWilliams, JPSS Program Office/STC, Lanham, MD, United States
Convener:  Satya N Kalluri, NOAA/NESDIS, Lanham, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bill Sjoberg, GST Contractor Supporting NOAA, Lanham, MD, United States


Open Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Utilizing Earth Observations for Decision Support
Primary Convener:  Zhuangfang Yi, Development Seed, Washington DC, DC, United States
Conveners:  Aaron S Kaulfus1, Iksha Gurung1 and Lillianne Thomas2, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States(2)Development Seed, Venice, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Aaron S Kaulfus, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States


Open-Source Software, Notebooks and FAIR Software
Primary Convener:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO, Mineral Resources, Kensington, WA, Australia
Conveners:  Lindsey Justine Heagy1, Fernando Perez1 and Leah A Wasser2, (1)University of California, Berkeley, Statistics, Berkeley, CA, United States(2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Earth Lab Earth Analytics Education Initiative - CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO, Mineral Resources, Kensington, WA, Australia


Process-based modeling and AI/ML for Predicting Global Environmental Change
Primary Convener:  E. Natasha Stavros, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Dipankar Dwivedi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Erin Hestir, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States and Daniel Crichton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  E. Natasha Stavros, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


Recent Advancements in Earth Science Data Discovery and Metadata Stewardship Practices
Primary Convener:  Jeanne le Roux, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Convener:  Valerie Dixon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, ESDIS, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jeanne le Roux, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States


Research Data Management Training: Strategies and Resources
Primary Convener:  Kristin Vanderbilt, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Convener:  Nancy J Hoebelheinrich, Knowledge Motifs LLC, San Mateo, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kristin Vanderbilt, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States


Science In Application Containers
Primary Convener:  Thomas E Robinson Jr, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Kayla Kroll, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Ian Colwell, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Qingkai Kong, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Thomas E Robinson Jr, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States


Scientific Software Engineering: applications of industry best practices to accelerate discovery
Primary Convener:  Michael Hirsch, Boston University, ECE, Boston, MA, United States
Convener:  Matthew D Zettergren, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Michael Hirsch, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States


Standardized Data and Methodologies for Open Science
Primary Convener:  Aaron S Kaulfus, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Zhuangfang Yi, Development Seed, Washington DC, DC, United States and Iksha Gurung, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Aaron S Kaulfus, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States


Tools, Databases, and Data Analytics for Solar and Planetary Sciences in the Big-Data Era
Primary Convener:  Baptiste Cecconi, Observatoire de Paris, PSL, CNRS, LESIA, Meudon, France
Conveners:  Emily Law, CalTech JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States and Steven P Joy, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Baptiste Cecconi, Paris Observatory Meudon, Meudon, France


Advances in Radar Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation: Observations, Data Processing, Weather and Water Model Applications
Primary Convener:  Haonan Chen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Robert Cifelli, NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Haonan Chen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States


Air pollution detection, monitoring and analytics with human health.
Primary Convener:  Qian Liu, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
Conveners:  Jingchao Yang, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA, United States, Manzhu Yu, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States and Yun Li, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Qian Liu, Ocean University of China, Marine Chemistry, Qingdao, China


Atmospheric Research Supported by Uncrewed Aerial Systems
Primary Convener:  Fan Mei, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Gijs de Boer, CIRES/University of Colorado/NOAA/PSL, Boulder, CO, United States, Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States and Beat Schmid, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Fan Mei, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Regional climate: modeling, analysis, and impacts
Primary Convener:  Paul Aaron Ullrich, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Conveners:  Melissa S Bukovsky, National Center for Atmospheric Research, CISL&RAL/RISC, Boulder, CO, United States and L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Paul Aaron Ullrich, University of California Davis, Land, Air & Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States


Small Satellites as Pathfinders for New Mission Capabilities
Primary Convener:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Charles D Norton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Pamela Millar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and David M Klumpar, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
Primary Liaison:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States