<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style="">AMS is meeting in Baltimore in January 2024.  The theme of the meeting is "<span style="font-weight:bolder;color:rgb(0,33,65);text-align:center">Living in a Changing Environment</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-weight:bolder;color:rgb(0,33,65);text-align:center">" </span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">EIPT has a wide set of sessions that may be of interest to ESIP members.   See <a href="https://annual.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/2024/program-events/conferences-and-symposia/40th-conference-on-environmental-information-processing-technologies/">https://annual.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/2024/program-events/conferences-and-symposia/40th-conference-on-environmental-information-processing-technologies/</a> for full details.  The <font color="#990000">deadline for submitting abstracts is 24 August 2023.</font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">Sessions include:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(77,77,78)"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Cloud Computing for Big Data in Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate</span> (Joint with 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science, 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python, and the Tenth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate).  </font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(77,77,78)"><font face="georgia, serif"> W</font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">eather imposes constraints on human activity. As a consequence, most decision-makers/planners seek awareness to mitigate or eliminate weather impacts. As datasets become larger and larger, new and improved tools to work with Big Data are critical. This session welcomes contributions from research fields such as scientific visualization, information visualization or visual analytics that are applicable to large data sets from climatology, meteorology or related disciplines. Presentations on using cloud computing for analyzing satellite and model data for weather, ocean, or climate relevant applications will also be welcomed. </span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(77,77,78)"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Democratizing Data: Environmental Data Access and its Future</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"> (Joint with 27th Conference of Atmospheric Librarians International)</span><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(77,77,78)"><font face="georgia, serif">One of the tenets of big data is the idea of the (2,4, 7) V’s - Volume, Velocity, Variety, Variability, Veracity, Visualization, and Value. With the increase in the volume and velocity of data, access becomes ever more challenging. Users have access to more types of data and they can become overwhelmed by the possibilities. In the past, data access has been confusing but now there is more user engagement in building friendlier and more usable interfaces. Discovery is now more flexible and all encompassing - for example using <a href="http://schema.org">schema.org</a> to enable data discovery and via Google search. This increased use of data is not limited to scientists and other professionals. Citizens use data more than they realize (maps, elevation charts, tides, etc.) so they are constantly accessing data from a variety of sources.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(77,77,78)"><font face="georgia, serif">There remains a broader community goal to have improved data access with the aim of democratizing data by removing gatekeepers so that data are unrestricted and available in a meaningful way to all. Improved access to data also supports data equity - “The term “data equity” captures a complex and multi-faceted set of ideas. It refers to the consideration, through an equity lens, of the ways in which data is collected, analyzed, interpreted, and distributed.” By making data more easily accessed and used we also make the ability to use data more equitable.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(77,77,78)"><font face="georgia, serif">We want to gather a set of papers that bring together all aspects of the data access process with a focus on improving data access for a wide range of users. We propose the following structure:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;list-style-type:square;color:rgb(77,77,78)"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em;margin-top:19px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif">data discoverability</font></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif">data access</font></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif">data and service equity</font></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif">data usability</font></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif">user interface/engagement/input</font></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif">visualization tools</font></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em;margin-bottom:19px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif">reproducibility and tracing - after access</font></span></span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(77,77,78)"><font face="georgia, serif">Platforms for reproducible research and reusable tools will accelerate the analytics enterprise and build the salience, credibility, and legitimacy required to effectively inform policy. This session will highlight emerging open-science tools and platforms for weather and climate-security analysis.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(77,77,78)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(77,77,78)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder"><font face="georgia, serif">Using Big Data Repositories: Open Data Feeding Open Science </font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(77,77,78)"><font face="georgia, serif">(Joint with 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science, 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python, the Tenth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate, 27th Conference of Atmospheric Librarians International, and the Board on Data Stewardship ) </font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(77,77,78)"><font face="georgia, serif">Following up in the annual Big Data Town Hall, this session seeks presentations on the use of big data repositories including the NOAA Open Data Dissemination Program (former Big Data Program) the NASA Open-Source Science Initiative, and open data repositories hosted by various cloud vendors. Talks on data access, but also on the use of these data for analyses are welcome.  Data can be atmospheric, oceanic or terrestrial.  </font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em;font-family:"PT Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(77,77,78)">Please feel free to email me if you have any questions.</p></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Tiffany C. Vance, Ph.D.  <br>Ocean Technology Transition (OTT) Program Manager                                <br>US IOOS Program  Seattle, WA</div><div dir="ltr"><br><img src="https://cdn.ioos.noaa.gov/media/2017/12/IOOS_Emblem_Primary_B_RGB.jpg" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium" width="200" height="85"></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif">“</span><span style="color:rgb(95,99,104);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif">There are no boring  landscapes,</span><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"> only </span><span style="color:rgb(95,99,104);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif">landscapes</span><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"> we haven't learned to see.”- Paul Groth</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">"To be what you are is one thing, to be what you want -- now that's something else."</font></span><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">- </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Ferron</span></font></div></div></div></div></div>