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Learning to Use More Than a Hammer: A Review of the Software Carpentry Workshop

There's an old saying that when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I know, it's cliched and painfully overused, but stay with me here. In the world of working with scientific data, and processing data using a...

Agriculture, Climate and Water: Can Drones Help Us Make Better Management Decisions?
Flinging a small fixed-wing drone into the crisp morning air to monitor an agricultural field, the whine of the...
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ESIP Interview: Chuck Meertens, UNAVCO

 

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Member Highlight: UNAVCO

Mission: UNAVCO is a non-profit university-governed consortium that facilitates...

ESIP Collab Update: Rebooting the Web Services Cluster

Part of the impetus for this reboot was identifying several cross-cluster and cross-domain issues that could use a more dedicated space for discussion during the 2015 Summer Meeting at Asilomar. On our first call, we were reminded of...

Member Highlight: SSEC 50th Anniversary

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ESIP Data Stewardship Committee Updates: The Student Fellow's Experience in Publishing an Article for the "Data Management Short Course for Scientists"

From 2011-2013, members of the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Data Stewardship Committee (the Committee) worked together to produce the “Data Management Short Course for Scientists” (Short Course).  The current Short Course...

ESIP Interview: Wenyu Gong

ESIP thanks Dr. Wenyu Gong for taking the time to answer some questions about her career path, current research with synthetic aperture radar data at the Alaska Satellite Facility, software challenges and her work in the wake...

SF Blog: Agriculture, Climate Change, and Not Reinventing the Wheel

 

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New FES Communications and Outreach Director!

I’d like to introduce the new Communications and Outreach Director for the Foundation for Earth Science (FES)...