Sessions

Fall Meeting 2017 Overview

Program Committee: Lesley Wyborn, Jane Hart and Mark Parsons

ESSI schedule

The good news:

  1. In May, ESSI received 63 session proposals, up from 45 last year – an increase of 40% (not all of these went ahead)
  2. This year ESSI received 729 abstracts – up from 614 last year – an increase of ~18.7 %
  3. ESSI was awarded 35 oral sessions – up from 25 last year – an increase of ~40%
  4. This year’s oral allocation also includes five eLightnings – which we did not have last year (ESSI had the most eLightnings – other sections did not try this format). Please try and get to at least one of these and provide feedback to me on how you think this new format can be improved as AGU is keen to have more of these next year.
  5. We also accepted 3 panels this year, where every speaker in the session has ‘invited author’ status.
  6. We have 10 posters-only sessions.
  7. Our ESSI highlight sessions: the Leptoukh lecture on Wednesday at 4.00 and our Union on Thursday at 8 do not have anything else scheduled in these time slots (hint, hint!)
  8. The 4 Data Fair Town halls are on the attached program – note they are at 18:15 on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, and at 12:30 on the Wednesday.
  9. We have a new theme this year which we have called adoption and adaption. This is mainly on Friday, and the sessions have interesting societal applications of informatics, including the ‘water-energy nexus’ and ‘where we live and work’.
  10. Machine Learning/Deep Learning has certainly hit the 2017 program with a vengeance – it was the biggest increase in any theme on the 2016 program (the other big increases were in FAIR, Repositories & Data Storage and Adoption & Adaption).

The not so good news:

  1. With so many additional abstracts and sessions this year we could not avoid clashes, and concurrent sessions are the rule for almost every timeslot (sorry if there are any bad clashes for you)
  2. We divided the program into themes and then tried to have specific themes per day as we did last year. However, try as we may, we could not do that, so this year you just have a dominant theme of the day!

The increased number of abstracts for ESSI was one of the highest across AGU. Overall, the total number of abstracts for AGU decreased from 22,770 in 2016 to 22,236 in 2017 (a decrease of 2.3%).

Presentation slides

(where made available)

This year presenters in ESSI sponsored sessions were given the option of sharing the slides from their talk with the ESSI community. Those sessions taking part are listed below.

Session U41A: How Safe and Persistent Is Your Research?

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Where Will All Your Samples Go?
Kerstin Lehnert
Director of IEDA, Founder of the IGSN- international geo-sample number
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Designing Research Services: Cross-Disciplinary Administration and the Research Lifecycle
Greg Madden
Senior Advisor for Research Computing and Cyberinfrastructure,
Office of the Vice President for Research
Penn State University
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Better Software, Better Research: the challenge of preserving your research and your reputation
Neil Chue Hong
Director of the Software Sustainability Institute
University of Edinburgh
The slides are licensed under CC BY 4.0 International.
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WDS Certification for Open and Trustworthy Data Repositories
Alexander de Sherbinin
Associate Director for Science Applications,
Center for International Earth Science Information Network & Deputy Manager, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
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Challenges in Managing Trustworthy Large-scale Digital Science
Ben Evans
Associate Director for Research Engagement and Initiatives
National Computational Infrastructure
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Making Data Available (Responsibly)
Kerry Kroffe
Executive Director
Editorial Services for PLOS
License: CC-BY
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Recordings from AGU On Demand

A complete list of AGU On Demand videos can be found on their YouTube channel. Below are the ESSI On Demand sessions from 2017.

Events outside of the Science Program

  • ESSI Early Career/Student Networking Mixer – OPEN TO ALL ESSI members
    • ESSI hosted an event to foster engagement with our Early Career and Student members. Seasoned ESSI members attended to network with the Early Career and Student members. The event included our traditional meeting activities and the ‘5 words from our leadership’ presentation. This years five words were: “Data is hot, ESSI rocks”.
  • Earth and Space Science Informatics Section Reception (Mardi Gras World)
    • AGU held a joint Section reception at the Mardi Gras World. It was open to the more than 4,000 colleagues from 12 different sections and sections. ESSI was co-located with the Nonlinear Geophysics and the Near Surface Sections.
  • IgniteAGU! a co-sponsored ESSI and ESIP event
    • NASA’s Applied Sciences Program – in partnership with AGU’s Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) group and the ESIP Federation – co-sponsored IgniteAGU 2017 at the Fall AGU meeting. Ignite (www.igniteshow.com), is a concept created by O’Reilly Media which provides presenters a strict presentation format – five minutes and 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds – to make their point. Enlighten us, but make it quick!