CDI Collaboration Area Meetings in FY23
Eighteen collaboration areas activities hosted meetings in FY23.
As part of networking and sharing knowledge and experience, the CDI facilitates Collaboration Areas that form around common interests, help address challenges, and identify solutions that enable data integration efforts.
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Collaboration Areas
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Cryosphere
Data Management
Data Visualization
DevOps
Fire Science
Geomorphology
Hyperspectral
Imagery Data
Inland/Bathymetry
Markdown/LaTeX
Metadata Reviewers
Power Platform
Risk
Semantic Web
Software Development
Tech Stack
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| February 14, 2023 | Exploiting artificial intelligence for advancing earth and environmental system science | Forrest Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee |
| March 14, 2023 | Integrating machine learning into large-scale aerial and satellite remote sensing to observe and understand changing coasts | Daniel Buscombe, USGS |
| April 11, 2023 | A subsurface machine learning approach at hydrocarbon production forecast and resource estimates for unconventional reservoirs | Shane Prochnow, Chevron |
| July 11, 2023 | Estimation of the United States public water withdrawal using machine learning: presenting the preliminary model, challenges in development, and key findings | Ayman Alzraiee, USGS |
| September 5, 2023 | Modeling continental U.S. stream water quality using Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) and Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS) | Kuai Fang, Stanford University |
Cryosphere
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| March 6, 2023 | The state of the cryosphere | Twila Moon, National Snow and Ice Data Center and University of Colorado - Boulder |
| June 13, 2023 | USGS Cryosphere Community of Practice | Burke Minsley, Stephanie James, Brian Menounos, Dave Selkowitz, Zachary Miller, Laura Gemery, USGS |
Data Management
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| November 14, 2022 | Show and tell about collections management and collections resources | Victoria Crystal and Amy Atwater, USGS |
| ReSciColl documentation ecosystem | Dan Arthur and Mikki Johnson, USGS | |
| December 12, 2022 | USGS Repositories: Policy, types, and challenges associated with our current landscape | Viv Hutchison, USGS |
| January 9, 2023 | Introduction to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for data managers | David Mitchell, Smithsonian Instiution and USGS |
| February 13, 2023 | Adding plain language tags to USGS water data offerings | Candice Hopkins and Rachel Volentine, USGS |
| Assessing the Value and Usage of Data Management Planning and Data Management Plans at the USGS | Madison Langseth, USGS | |
| March 13, 2023 | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Archive & EarthExplorer | Chris Rusanowski, USGS |
| April 10, 2023 | Introduction to the Information Management Branch | Paula Estornell, USGS |
| Data Management Staffing Discussion | Madison Langseth, USGS | |
| June 12, 2023 | Introduction to the DMWG Summer Series | David Donato, USGS |
| Microsoft 365 | Robbie Moreland, USGS | |
| EROS Virtual Desktop | Kelly Burmeister, USGS | |
| Secure FTP | Keith Richmond, USGS | |
| Questions and Answers | Madison Langseth, USGS | |
| July 10, 2023 | Cloud Hosting Solutions | Eric Larson, Dionne Zoanni, and Robert Shepherd, USGS |
| Globus and High-Performance Computing Resources | Jeff Falgout, USGS | |
| ScienceBase Communities and Advanced Collection Management | Drew Ignizio and Grace Donovan, USGS | |
| August 14, 2023 | Workflows using R targets and S3 | Jared Smith, USGS |
| S3/AWS and Python | David Watkins, USGS | |
| R Slim data release template and ScienceBase | Samantha Oliver, USGS | |
| Data management challenges and opportunities for mapping and quantifying bottom foeatures of the Great Lakes | Jennifer Morris, USGS | |
| Globus SDK | Ted Thompson, USGS | |
| September 11, 2023 | USGS Public Access Plan Updates | Viv Hutchison and Kelly Haberstroh, USGS |
Data Visualization
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| March 21, 2023 | Fast, fun, interactive data visualizations in JavaScript with Observable Plot | Allison Horst, Observable |
DevOps
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 4, 2022 | AWS FSx for Windows File Server | Ed Phillips, USGS |
| December 13, 2022 | Just-in time nodes for the Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters using Karpenter | Justin Garrison, Amazon Web Services |
| February 7, 2023 | Appian: Platform Overview for USGS | Jason Adolf, Appian |
| July 11, 2023 | Managing a fleet of EC2 instances at Netflix (at scale) | Justin Phelps, Netflix |
Fire Science
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 18, 2022 | Quantifying plant-soil-nutrient dynamics in rangelands: Fusion of UAV hyperspectral-LiDAR, UAV multispectral-photogrammetry, and ground-based LiDAR-digital photography in a shrub-encroached desert grassland | Joel Sankey, USGS |
| November 15, 2022 | Fire weather and other fire related science at NOAA | Dave Turner, NOAA |
| December 15, 2022 | Fire science and related research at Los Alamos National Lab and opportunities under the LANL/USGS MOU | Justin Welty, USGS |
| January 17, 2023 | The new Wildland Fire Trends Tool | Doug Shinneman and Michelle Jeffries, USGS |
| February 21, 2023 | Watershed health & management in SW fire prone arid ecosystems | Laura Norman, USGS |
| March 21, 2023 | Characterizing forest heterogeneity tradeoffs for effective fuel treatment design | Chad Hoffman, USGS |
| April 18, 2023 | Communities are made of people and homes: putting people into solutions to wildfire risk to communities | James Meldrum, USGS |
| May 16, 2023 | Beyond cheatgrass: ecological diversity in fire-prone annual grasses | Cara Applestein, USGS |
| June 20, 2023 | Historical role of fire in the Klamath Mountains, California | Clarke Knight, USGS |
| July 18, 2023 | Environmental safety of wildland firefighting chemicals in aquatic systems | Holly Puglis, USGS |
| August 15, 2023 | Ten-year ecological response to fuel treatments within semiarid Wyoming sagebrush ecosystems | Scott Shaff, USGS |
| September 19, 2023 | Relationship of strategic fire science and management efforts to the USGS | Paul Steblein, USGS |
Geomorphology
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 25, 2022 | Shifting Lakeshore Sands: Investigating short- and long-term geomorphic change in a post-glacial lacustrine terrain through remote sensing and terrain change analysis | Jessica DeWitt, USGS |
| November 15, 2022 | Understanding the Prevalence and Relevance of Outwash: Examples in NOAA Emergency Response Imagery and a case study after Hurricane Dorian | Jin-Si Over, USGS |
| January 24, 2023 | The where, when, and why of large wood in the Upper Mississippi River System: lessons from a 25-year dataset | Molly Van Appledorn, USGS |
| February 28, 2023 | Incorporating fluvial erosion hazards into the new Federal Flood Risk Management Standard | Jory Hecht, Faith Fitzpatrick, Allen Gellis, and Julia Prokopec, USGS |
| March 28, 2023 | Vegetation root strength and its effects on shallow landslides: Revisiting root cohesion at the CB1 landslide | Collin Cronkite-Ratcliff, USGS |
| April 25, 2023 | Observations of river dynamics and mechanisms of scour near highway bridges from repeat surveys with a multibeam sonar | Rick Huizinga, USGS |
| June 27, 2023 | Sediment sources and connectivity linked to hydrologic pathways and geomorphic processes: a conceptual model to specify sediment sources and pathways through space and time | Se Jong Cho, USGS |
| July 25, 2023 | Mapping Potential Sensitivity to Hydrogeomorphic Change in the Upper Mississippi Riverscape | Angus Vaughan, USGS |
| August 22, 2023 | A Regional Assessment of Status and Trends for Geomorphology and Physical Habitat in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed | Matt Cashman, USGS |
| September 19, 2023 | Comparing DEM-derived stream channel longitudinal profiles across data resolutions and different Laramide terranes | Curtis Price, USGS |
Hyperspectral
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| June 15, 2023 | Combining GHISA remote sensing datasets with PyHAT to broaden impact of Earth spectroscopic datasets | Itiya Aneece and Travis Gabriel, USGS |
| August 17, 2023 | Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) and Geological Earth Mapping Experiment (GEMx), a USGS-NASA collaboration to collect VSWIR airborne imaging spectrometer data + TIR sensor data | Raymond Kokaly, USGS |
Imagery Data
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 11, 2022 | Scripting Share-A-Thon: Workflows to Save Time or Automate Imagery-related Tasks | Carl Legleiter, Victoria Scholl, Troy Gilmore, Josh Von Nonn, and Frank Engel, USGS |
| March 7-8, 2023 | Imagery Data at the Edge: Advancing USGS imagery data edge computer processing | 2 day workshop |
| May 30, 2023 | AI/ML for Imagery | Group discussion |
| August 1, 2023 | Satellite remote sensing of river discharge (SatRSQ) | Rob Dudley, Merritt Harlan, and Dave Bjerklie, USGS |
Inland Bathymetry
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 21, 2022 | Bathymetry research coordination | Group discussion |
| November 15, 2022 | Bathymetry research coordination | Group discussion |
| January 18, 2023 | Bathymetry research coordination | Group discussion |
| February 22, 2023 | Bathymetry research coordination | Group discussion |
| March 27, 2023 | Bathymetry research coordination | Group discussion |
| May 17, 2023 | Bathymetry research coordination | Group discussion |
| June 13, 2023 | Bathymetry research coordination | Group discussion |
| July 24, 2023 | Bathymetry research coordination | Group discussion |
| September 26, 2023 | Bathymetry research coordination | Group discussion |
Markdown/LaTeX
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 26, 2022 | (More) examples of using Markdown and LaTeX in preparing reports and manuscripts (and automated tables!!) | Richie Erickson, USGS |
| January 25, 2023 | Quarto Visual Editor demo | Richie Erickson, USGS |
| April 26, 2023 | Word and PowerPoint templates with Quarto and RMarkdown | Richie Erickson, USGS |
| Using Sweave (a special type of LaTeX that weaves S into documents [now R]) to write annual reports | Dustin Toy, USGS | |
| July 26, 2023 | The here package to easily build file paths | Justin Mills, USGS |
| Quarto with DOIs for references | Mike Fienen, USGS | |
| Posit (R) Workbench | Richie Erickson and Courtney Neu, USGS | |
| LaTeX and todo lists | Rebecca Ransom, USGS |
Metadata Reviewers
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 3, 2022 | Continued discussion on qualification code guidelines | Group Discussion |
| November 7, 2022 | Continued discussion on qualification code guidelines | Group Discussion |
| June 5, 2023 | Recommended metadata tools and reviewing USGS Thesaurus keywords in metadata records | Group Discussion |
Power Platform
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| July 19, 2023 | Initial meeting and overview of Microsoft Power Platform | Power Platform coordinators |
| August 16, 2023 | Environments and types of Power Apps | Power Platform coordinators |
| Power App demonstration: IT equipment database and inventory | ||
| September 20, 2023 | Dataverse presentation and Q&A | Judd Gravelle, Microsoft |
Risk Research and Applications
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 27, 2022 | FY23 Risk RFP information session | Risk team |
| November 17, 2022 | User needs assessment for postfire debris-flow inundation hazard products | Katy Barnhart, USGS |
| Department of the Interior Strategic Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (SHIRA) Project: New directions and updates | Alice Pennaz and Nate Wood, USGS | |
| December 15, 2022 | Introduction to the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Natural Hazards Disaster Risk Reduction team | Panel discussion |
| January 19, 2023 | Developing the Brief Vulnerability Overview Tool (BVOT) with the National Weather Service | Jack Friedman, USGS |
| February 16, 2023 | Applying Social Science for Risk Reduction: Federal Agency Perspectives | Gina Eosco, NOAA, Maria Dillard, NIST, Keeley Maxwell, EPA, and Oronde Drakes, USGS |
| March 16, 2023 | Building bridges across communities of practice | Emily Wilkins, Annie Scott, Shaleene Chavarria, and Rachel Volentine, USGS |
| April 20, 2023 | Spatial Hazard Events and Disaster Loss Database for the United States (SHELDUS) | Melanie Gall, ASU |
| Updated National Landslide Susceptibility Map | Ben Mirus, USGS | |
| May 18, 2023 | USGS Environmental Justice Program | Amy Teague and Roxanne Lamb, USGS |
| National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers - Climate Justice | Allesandra Jerolleman, USGS | |
| June 15, 2023 | Risk to Campers on Tributary Debris Fans of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, AZ from Known Debris Flow Hazards | Paul Grams, USGS |
| Indigenous Drought Risk Assessment in the Colorado River Basin: Weaving Indigenous Knowledge into assessments of drought risk | Jessica Driscoll, USGS | |
| Site Prioritization Tool for Invasive Species: Integrating Diverse Spatial Data to Inform Risk | Catherine Jarnevich, USGS | |
| July 20, 2023 | Changes in RGE/EDGE panels and review processes; how the Risk CoP can ensure that risk-related research is represented in RGE/EDGE process | Jeannie Barlow, USGS |
| July 21, 2023 | Community Disaster Resilience Zones Act of 2022 | Risk team |
| August 17, 2023 | Background and Introduction to the Coastal Science Navigator dashboard/website | Erika Lentz, USGS |
| Considering risk in developing a social science strategy for USGS coastal science | Dawn Kotowicz, USGS | |
| September 21, 2023 | Communicating managed retreat in California | Amanda Stoltz, USGS |
| RMP considerations of tribes | Coral Avery, USGS |
Semantic Web
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 13, 2022 | Open Knowledge Network Innovation Sprint | Dalia Varanka, USGS |
| November 10, 2022 | Open Knowledge Network and Coastal Change Hazards group | Group discussion |
| January 10, 2023 | CDI Workshop session | Group discussion |
Software Development
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 27, 2022 | CDI proposal process overview | Leslie Hsu, USGS |
| January 26, 2023 | Zero trust architecture | Carl Schroedl and Dell Long, USGS |
| March 23, 2023 | How to migrate from Github to Github Enterprise or Gitlab with best practice examples | Eric Martinez, USGS |
| June 22, 2023 | Future directions for CDI Software Development Group | Group Discussion |
| July 27, 2023 | Designing a common practice of code review for scientists in the GHSC landslides program | Jonathan King, USGS |
| August 24, 2023 | DOI Single Sign On (SSO) resources for developers | Andrew Havely, Darren Dickinson, and Robb Bryn, DOI, and Carl Schroedl, USGS |
| August 30, 2023 | Challenges government faces in the digital age, and on how we can do better | Jennifer Pahlka, former U.S. CTO |
| September 7, 2023 | Heathcare.gov, Rescued! | Sam King, Empower Project |
Usability
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| January 27, 2023 | Kickoff meeting | Usability coordinators |
| March 10, 2023 | Redesigning the USGS Water Cycle Diagram, created with and for K-12 educators | Cee Nell, Charlotte Riggs, and Rachel Volentine, USGS |
| May 11, 2023 | Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership (WHISPers) Usability: Past, Present, and Future | Kim Miller and Kimberly Cupp, USGS |
| Usability testing 101 hands-on activity | Group discussion | |
| July 19, 2023 | Hands-on experience conducting a usability test | Rachel Volentine, USGS |
| September 28, 2023 | Environmental justice and how usability practices can support | Oronde Drakes, USGS |
Tech Stack
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 10, 2022 | openEO - API for Earth Observation Workflows | Alexander Jacob, Eurac Research and Matthias Mohr, University of Muenster WWU |
| November 10, 2022 | AWS for Research - Stepping Into the Cloud | Scott Friedman, AWS |
| February 9, 2023 | Rants & Raves | Lightning talks |
| March 9, 2023 | Meeting Data Where it Lives: the power of virtual access patterns | Mike Johnson, NOAA |
| April 13, 2023 | Evolution of open source geospatial python | Tom Kralidis, Meteorological Service of Canada |
| May 11, 2023 | Software Procurement Has Failed Us Completely, But No More! | Waldo Jaquith, U.S. Digital Response |
| June 8, 2023 | Reproducible Data Pipelines in Modern Data Science: what they are, how to use them, and examples you can use! | Julie Padilla, USGS |
| July 13, 2023 | Tools to Assist Simulation Based Researchers in Deciding What Project Outputs to Preserve and Share | Doug Schuster, UCAR |
| August 10, 2023 | Learning to love the upside down: Quarto and the two data science worlds | Carlos Scheidegger, Posit |
| September 14, 2023 | Water data standardization: Navigating the AntiCommons | Kyle Onda, Internet of Water |
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