Crossing the communication boundary between your field and everyone else - Presented at the Winter 2018 ESIP Meeting

You know you can write a great journal paper, and your colleagues assure you that your talks at professional meetings don’t (always) feel like “death by Powerpoint.” However, when you try to communicate the value of your contributions to folks outside your field, you find a lot of them don’t quite get it. If you’re interested in increasing the impact of your science by sharing it with a larger audience, here’s a place to start.<br

ESIP Summer Meeting 2018, Session: Quantifying Value of EO Data via Socioeconomics

This session took place at the ESIP Summer Meeting 2018, and featured three presentations on approaches and tools for tying Earth Observations (EO) data with quantifiable business value. Building upon other ESIP threads such as the benefits of using EO data to build resilient communities, and spatial information as a key to link science, demographics, and economic value, presentations focused on business use cases for EO, how to connect observation data to economic datasets, and how to position EO research products. Discussion questions were presented and iterated upon during the session in a shared document. This proceedings entry includes the three presentations, and a copy of the shared document that captured presentation abstracts and the discussion items

Earth Science Information Partners, Vision for the Future of Cyberinfrastructure

<div> <div> <div> <div> <p>ESIP is a community of data and information technology practitioners who collaborate across Earth science organizations. Our response comes from the perspective of maximizing technical and organizational cooperation among diverse entities. First, the challenge of overcoming technical, institutional, and cultural barriers for pursuing transformative, interdisciplinary Earth and Space science. Another challenge is building semantic understanding across different research communities seamlessly. Fully taking advantage of the analytical resources available through big earth science data is another challenge, and the last is better support for research code and information provenance to improve and expedite research reproducibility. Regarding specific cyberinfrastructure needs, the first is support for data driven knowledge development via collaborative analytics and visualization. Another recommendation is that NSF leverages existing infrastructures and opportunities for partnering instead of duplicating or creating competing resources. The last need is for project support and sustainability, to transition projects into a next funding phase as appropriate. Our response concludes with an additional consideration regarding education. All stakeholders benefit from education emphasizing aspects of data curation, management, and data and software stewardship. ESIP recommends a multidisciplinary approach to cyberinfrastructure training to support current, as well as future researchers. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div