Member Highlight: Goddard Earth Science DISC
This past week we featured long-time ESIP member, the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). The GES DISC specializes in archiving, distributing, stewarding, and providing user data access and analysis services for remote sensing data associated with global Atmospheric Composition, Atmospheric Dynamics, Hydrology, Precipitation, and Global Modeling data.
In addition, the GES DISC has developed tools and services that promote easier use and usability of Earth science data and information. In this highlight, they share the work they are doing with data rods. For all the details on this week's highlight see the ESIP blog post: http://esipfed.org/node/7301
Drupal WG Replay - Backup/Migrate Module presented by Gorton Studio
October's Drupal telecon featured Gorton Studios, the creators of NodeSquirrel. They presented on Drupal site back up and best practices: Backup & Migrate and NodeSquirrel. Check out the replay here: http://youtu.be/8-LuCnZWgtw
ESIP Winter Meeting Updates
For those in ESIP member organizations, the early rate is $400 and for non-member organizations, the rate is $525. Both rates will go up $100 on Dec. 15, to $500 and $625, respectively. Hotel reservations can be made online now in the ESIP room block at the Renaissance Dupont Circle. All meeting details are on the meeting page.
EarthCube Leadership Council - At-Large Nomination
EarthCube is intended to represent and serve the entire academic geosciences community. To ensure that the diversity of this community is well represented on the initial Leadership Council in this Demonstration Phase, EarthCube seeks candidates to serve as At-Large Members who may represent Oceanography, including chemical, physical and biological; Polar sciences in the Antarctic or Arctic regions; Geospace, including the upper atmosphere and the Earth’s space environment; Climate dynamics; Deep Earth processes; or Computer and Cyberinfrastructure sciences. All interested persons must submit their self-nomination using this GoogleForm . You can also contact the EarthCube Office, with nominations of colleagues and community members.
This ROSES element solicits research in support of the future the U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA). This solicitation seeks to motivate research responding to the vision of the sustained assessment by increasing the knowledge base and capacity needed to enable the effective integration of new scientific understanding into management decisions. This can be achieved by enhancing the production of decision-support tools, initiating continuous improvements in collecting and synthesizing information, and by providing feedback to ongoing research efforts. NASA aims to better integrate the climate indicator work with assessment product generation and assessment tools projects at NASA Centers. Contributions are sought to enhance NASA's participation in future NCAs by encouraging the developing and testing of potential indicators that best address the needs expressed in the NCA indicator vision (see, for example,http://www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/indicators) and that leverage NASA's capabilities.
Notices of Intent are requested by December 2, 2014; proposals are due February 2, 2015.
*Link Correction* OGC Calls for Participation in Major Interoperability Testbed
All details for the testbed can be found here: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/126
The request will close Nov. 21.
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