[Esip-envirosensing] ESIP Winter Meeting - EnviroSensing Session

[Scotty Strachan]

Dear EnviroSensors,

With the Winter Meeting in Bethesda next week, I just wanted to update 
the group on our planned session activity.

http://www.esipfed.org/meetings/upcoming-meetings/esip-winter-meeting-2018

Our session is on Tuesday afternoon, and will be a "casual" working 
session on end-to-end sensor data workflows. The Cluster discussion over 
this last year indicated that there is significant interest in an 
updated survey on the actual tools/methods that people are using for 
different portions of the workflow.  Our primary activity therefore will 
be to engage in exactly that!

I've prepared a graphical worksheet that I will have hardcopies of for 
people to interact with at the session. We will see if this is a useful 
way to collect high-level information on the diverse workflows that 
folks in our community employ, and if there would be benefit for wider 
distribution.

You can preview the worksheet here: 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k35d1lo1yfqlgnk/2018_Winter_data_flow_worksheet_ss.jpg?dl=0

After the meeting, I will make the results available to everyone ASAP 
(whether we have 3 participants or 30!), probably by scanning the 
completed sheets.

Originally, I had thought to use these data in a proposal to the NSF 
Cyberinfrastructure SSI program for software tools & frameworks, but NSF 
OAC has pulled that solicitation and it has not reappeared yet. 
Regardless, in my conversations with researchers, network scientists, 
and NSF OAC program officers, a functional and flexible software 
framework that could integrate existing tools and provide development 
space for new ones appears to remain a gap that needs filling. Hopefully 
some of you will find this sort of information useful!

These last couple of weeks has seen me transitioning into a new position 
at my institution that will work across all aspects of institutional CI, 
which is exciting for me but will involve less time turning screwdrivers 
and doing hard science. Regardless, Renee and I will keep the Cluster 
activities going in 2018 with a mix of outside presenters and internal 
topic focus.

Happy New Year to all of you, and I look forward to seeing some of you 
next week. Otherwise I will see you on our monthly calls!

Cheers,

Scotty

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Scotty Strachan, Ph.D.
Director, Nevada Climate-ecohydrological Assessment Network
Director of Cyberinfrastructure
Office of Information Technology
University of Nevada, Reno
email: strachan at unr.edu
alt-email: scotty at dayhike.net
cell: 775-721-1308