No December CDI Monthly Meeting
We're taking a break from the CDI Monthly Meeting in December - see you on January 11, 2023. If you still have a calendar event for December 14, please delete it. Due to recent mailing list migrations, we can't remove it for you!
2023 CDI Workshop & Workshop Session Office Hours
The 2023 CDI Workshop: Open Data for Open Science will be held from May 2-5th, 2023 at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The session proposal form is open!
Planning to submit a session proposal and want to get some feedback?
Join the CDI facilitators on Wednesday, December 14 from 11:30am-12:30pm ET to discuss your session idea:
Meeting ID: 248 255 442 435 Passcode: LP7uus
Have a seed of an idea about a topic you want to see at the workshop?
Ready to submit your session?
The formal session proposal form is open from now until 11:59 pm ET on Friday, January 27, 2023. Notice of acceptance will be sent around February 15.
Details about general registration will be sent in January and posted on the
Invited full proposals
Our annual community voting on CDI statements of interest has concluded! The 22 statements invited for full proposal submission are listed below and more details about the voting results are on our SharePoint site. PIs received notifications and further information on November 30. Full proposals are due January 26 and awarded projects will be announced in March. Congratulations to these teams, and thanks to EVERYONE who participated and shared their ideas and input.
- Joshua T Ackerman, Integrating avian and spatial environmental data to guide restoration planning
- Itiya P Aneece, Increasing data accessibility by adding existing datasets and capabilities to a cutting-edge visualization app to enable cross-community use
- Theodore B Barnhart, Developing a user-friendly web application to democratize climate data access for Indigenous communities and partner agencies
- David Blodgett, Evaluation and recommendation of practices for publication of reproducible data and software releases in the USGS
- Kristin B Byrd, A Tool for Rapid-Repeat High-Resolution Coastal Vegetation Maps to Improve Forecasting of Hurricane Impacts and Coastal Resilience
- Michael L Casazza, Wet today. Dry tomorrow. Integrating animal movement and wetland monitoring data to inform and support habitat planning and management
- Samuel N Chambers, A QGIS plugin to transform wildlife GPS tracking data to bioenergetic cost-distance surfaces
- Frank L Engel, ZenRiver Game Concept: Accelerating Creation of Machine Learning Imagery Training Datasets Using Citizen Science
- Faith Fitzpatrick, Describing national anthropogenic and natural headwater channel networks and sensitivity to climate change
- Caitlyn Florentine, Improving readiness of research-grade elevation products over glacierized terrain to empower automated and scalable climate analysis
- Travis SJ Gabriel, Availability, Documentation, & Community Support for an Open-Source Machine Learning Tool
- Nick Gianoutsos, Linking Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells with Groundwater Quality
- Margaret A Goldman, Extracting data from maps: applying lessons learned from the AI for Critical Mineral Assessment Competition
- Konrad C Hafen, Integrating stream gage records, water presence observations, and models to improve hydrologic prediction in stream networks
- Dawn M Kotowicz, Connecting with our Stakeholders - Developing a Better Understanding of Use and Usability for Science Products
- Rob Massatti, Informing the use of native plant materials in restoration and rehabilitation with the Native Plant Seed Mapping Toolkit
- Annie L Putman, Hydroclimate of the Upper Colorado from precipitation isotope tracers
- Fleford S Redoloza, Taking Stock of Stock Ponds: Using ML methods for Automatic Discovery of Stock Ponds
- Douglas J Shinneman, Providing online visualizations of changes in historical fire weather conditions in the western United States
- Larry V Stanislawski, Automated accuracy and quality assessment tools (AQAT = “a cat”) for generalized geospatial data
- Joseph Thomas, Using NWIS Data from Multiple Gauging Stations to Capture Event Based Video
- Taylor Woods, Communicating Stream Fish Vulnerability to Climate Change
Learn more about the process at the 2023 Proposals Site. If you need access, you can request it here.
Submit a CDI Leadership & Innovation Award Nomination
The Community for Data Integration (CDI) Leadership and Innovation Award is presented to a community member for outstanding leadership, innovation, and vision in guiding USGS data integration activities through the CDI community of practice.
All USGS employees and other individuals involved with the USGS Community for Data Integration are eligible. Nominees must not have received the award previously.
Submit a nomination to the CDI facilitators at gs_cdi@usgs.gov.
Format: Single-spaced on one page, Times New Roman 12 Font, justified, 350 words maximum.
Learn more about the award and past honorees on the CDI website.
Upcoming CDI Collaboration Area Activity
See below for selected upcoming Collaboration Area activity. Many groups are taking a break or have rescheduled their December meeting!
To be best informed about a group's activities, join the contact list for specific groups here.
Dec 12: 2p ET, Data Management Working Group USGS Data Repositories - Viv Hutchison, USGS
Dec 13: 11a ET, DevOps Working Group Just-in time nodes for the Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters using Karpenter - Justin Garrison, AWS
Dec 15: 1p ET, Risk Community of Practice Introduction to USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Natural Hazards Disaster Risk Reduction group
Dec 15: 4p ET, Fire Science Community of Practice Fire Science and Related Research at Los Alamos National Lab and Opportunities - Rodney Linn, Los Alamos National Lab
If you need SharePoint access, you can request it here.
Have a great rest of your year, and see you soon!
Amanda Liford and Leslie Hsu Community for Data Integration (CDI) Facilitators U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO 80225
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