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ESIP Data Stewardship Committee Updates: 2016 February Activities


On Thursday, January 7th, 2016, the ESIP Data Stewardship Committee (the Committee) held its 2015 Report Out and 2016 Planning session as part of the ESIP Winter Meeting 2016.  Although it was the first time in the recent years that the Committee combined the Report Out and the Planning sessions into one, the Committee members utilized the allotted time efficiently and were able to complete the discussions and set up the next steps for all the key collaboration areas identified in the agenda (the full session agenda and notes are published in the ESIP Commons and can be accessed and viewed...

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Member Highlight: National Agricultural Library


About: The National Agricultural Library (NAL) provides technical information on agricultural research and related subjects to scientists, educators and farmers. It is one of five national libraries in the United States. NAL coordinates and is a primary resource for a national network of state land grant university and field libraries. It has been a leader in digital access...

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Land Cover Change and Ecosystem Services Using Remote Sensing: Meet Alison Adams


I’m Alison, a second-year Master's student at the University of Vermont. I've always had an interest in visual representations--as an undergraduate at Yale I was an art history major, and upon transitioning my focus to environmental science I was quickly drawn to remote sensing and GIS because of the power of maps to convey information that’s harder to communicate with words, charts, and tables. The potential of remotely-sensed spatial data to give us...

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ESIP Data Stewardship Committee Updates: Meet Sophie Hou


As the returning student fellow from 2015 to the ESIP Data Stewardship Committee, I am very excited to have the opportunity to continue to work with the Committee and be able to contribute to its key collaborative areas in 2016.

Particularly, since my academic program and research interests are in the field of scientific data curation, I am especially looking forward to participating in the activities from the Committee's Data...

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