CDI Collaboration Area Meetings in FY22
Fifteen collaboration areas activities hosted meetings in FY22.
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
eDNA
Fire Science
Geomorphology
Imagery Data
Markdown/LaTeX
Metadata Reviewers
Risk
Semantic Web
Software Development
Tech Stack
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| February 8, 2022 | Harvesting the Landsat archive using deep learning methods | Giorgos Mountrakis, State University of New York |
| May 10, 2022 | Getting Labeled Data for Supervised Machine Learning | Matt Kuckuk and Upal Chowdury, USGS |
| June 14, 2022 | A web platform to enable knowledge-generation from big geospatial data | Anna Liljedahl and Chandi Witharana, |
| August 9, 2022 | A peek inside the black box: using explainable AI to better understand deep learning in hydrology | Simon Topp, USGS |
Cryosphere
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| August 17, 2022 | Inaugural Meeting | Group discussion |
Data Management
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 11, 2021 | No meeting due to Columbus Day Holiday | |
| November 8, 2021 | Future of CSDGM Metadata Tools at the USGS | Viv Hutchison, USGS |
| Science Data Catalog (SDC) Dashboard: A New Tool for Understanding the Success and Health of Records Submitted to the SDC | Lisa Zolly, USGS | |
| December 13, 2021 | GeoPackage Usage - 3DEP & NHDPlus HR | Jeremiah Grief and Gregory Cocks, USGS |
| January 10, 2022 | Long-Term Preservation and Dissemination of Wildlife Tracking Data by the USGS Alaska Science Center | Dennis Walworth, David Douglas, John Reed, USGS |
| Sharing and Publishing Telemetry Data with Movebank | Candace Vinciguerra, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences | |
| February 14, 2022 | CERC data release process for Genetic Data found on NCBI GenBank data repository | Robin Tillitt, USGS |
| GenBank: a one stop location for DNA sequences | Linda Frisse, National Center for Biotechnology Information | |
| Big data and reproducibility: An expression of love to the scientific community | Wes Bickford, USGS | |
| March 14, 2022 | ORCIDs at the U.S. Geological Survey | Amanda Liford, USGS |
| Associate Chief Data Officer Responsibilities, Progress and Next Steps | Cheryl Morris, USGS | |
| April 11, 2022 | Litigation: An Overview | Dionne Duncan-Hughes, USGS |
| Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Moving from Data "Wardship" to Indigenous Data Sovereignty | Lydia Jennings, University of Arizona | |
| May 9, 2022 | USGS ISO Metadata Transition | Dennis Walworth, USGS |
| June 13, 2022 | What is Tidy Data...and Why Should We Care? | Anne Brown and Jonathan Briganti, Virginia Tech |
| July 11, 2022 | An Introduction and Overview of Modern NetCDF | Ward Fisher and Dennis Heimbigner, UCAR/Unidata |
| August 8, 2022 | USGS State of the Data Update & USGS Model Catalog | Tamar Norkin and Leslie Hsu, USGS |
| September 12, 2022 | Data Visualization Publishing at the USGS - research workflows, policy, Enterprise services, and USGS web | Caitlin Andrews, Natalie Latysh, Courtney Neu, Dionne Zoanni, Lance Everette, USGS |
Data Visualization
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| December 2, 2021 | Earth Observations for a Sustainable Future | Africa Flores-Anderson, SERVIR |
| May 31, 2022 | Data Viz, Illustration and Comics: Visual Storytelling for News | Connie Jin, National Public Radio |
| August 25, 2022 | Mapping and Data Visualization at The Washington Post | Lauren Tierney, The Washington Post |
DevOps
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| December 7, 2021 | AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service and Managing IP Address Allocation | Robert Djurasaj, USGS |
| January 11, 2022 | Docker Licensing Changes and Static Site Hosting Solution | Carl Schrodel, USGS |
| Serving Single Page Applications Using AWS Content Delivery Services | Carl Schrodel, Robert Djurasaj, USGS | |
| March 31, 2022 | ArcGIS on Kubernetes | Trevor Seaton, Jeremy Kirkendall, Kenyon Walker, ESRI |
| May 3, 2022 | Configuration Management at Water Mission Area (WMA) Using Ansible | Ivan Suftin, USGS |
| June 1, 2022 | Infrastructure as Code Using Amazon Web Services Cloud Development Kit at Geologic Hazards Science Center | Jeremy Fee, USGS |
| August 16, 2022 | DevOps at Cloud.gov | Andrew Burns, Geological Society of America |
eDNA
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 19-21, 2021 | 5th Annual Environmental DNA Technical Exchange Workshop (5eDTEW) | Caren Helbing, University of Victoria, Teresita Porter, University of Guelph, Matthew Barnes, Texas Tech University, John Darling, USEPA, Rachel Meyer, CAL eDNA |
Fire Science
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 19, 2021 | Changing Climates, Changing Fire Regimes: Examining the Potential Effects of a Warming Planet on Wildfire Potential and Prescribed Burning Opportunities | Adam Terando, North Carolina State University |
| November 16, 2021 | Wildfire and Water: General Trends, Lessons Learned, and Future Directions | Sheila Murphy, Brian Ebel, USGS |
| December 14, 2021 | Mapping Historic Fires | Justin Welty, USGS |
| Wildland Fire Priorities | Mike Zupko, Wildland Fire Leadership Council | |
| January 18, 2022 | Long-term Perspectives on Fish and Fire in the West | Jason Dunham, USGS |
| February 15, 2022 | Reducing Harm from Wildfires | David Green, NASA |
| March 15, 2022 | Lightning talks on the Future of Fire Climate Adaptation Postdoctoral Fellows Program | Jilmarie Stephens, University of Colorado, Boulder, Alyssa Anderson, University of Hawaii Manoa, Adam Young, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Aaron Russell, Oklahoma State University, Tyler Hoecker, University of Washington, Nina Fontana, University of California Davis, Reetam Majumder, North Carolina State University |
| April 19, 2022 | Burned Area Product: Recent Updates, Advances and Applications | Todd Hawbaker, Melanie Vanderhoof, USGS |
| May 17, 2022 | Observation & Information Shortfalls in Support of Wildland Fire Activities | Carolyn Vadnais, USGS |
| June 21, 2022 | Defendable Space Around Homes | Jon Keeley, USGS |
| UAV/UAS Capabilities and Applications for Wildland Fire | Lance Brady, USGS | |
| July 19, 2022 | Predicting risk of plant invasion following wildfires in the western United States | Janet Prevey, USGS |
| August 16, 2022 | Terrestrial Laser Monitoring Program: an interagency partnership to enhance fire effects monitoring and inform patterns of vegetative change | Jon Wallace (USFWS), Laila Leinesch (USGS), Seth Munson (USGS), Kurtis Nelson (USGS), and Scott Pokswinski (NMC) |
| September 20, 2022 | Carbon sequestration in fire prone habitats across the continental US | Zhiliang Zhu and Victoria Wolfe, USGS |
Geomorphology
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| February 23, 2021 | Interagency Geomorphology Data Exchange Project | Molly Wood, USGS, Paul Boyd, USACE, and Rose Dopsovic, Bowhead Technical Enterprise Solutions, LLC |
Imagery Data
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| March 2-3, 2022 | Camera-Based Monitoring Workshop: Field Imagery Data for Stream Studies & More | 2 day workshop |
| July 7, 2022 | Accessing Satellite Imagery: How to Get Started | Jacob Savoy, Michael Meyer, Carl Legleiter, and Jessica Walker, USGS |
Markdown/LaTeX
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| January 26, 2022 | LaTeX in USGS publication workflow | Group discussion |
| April 27, 2022 | LaTeX 101 | Richie Erickson, USGS |
| LyX | Mike Fienen, USGS | |
| Overleaf, LaTeX Workshop | Leslie Hsu, USGS | |
| LaTeX Example Application | Joseph Hughes, USGS | |
| July 27, 2022 | Markdown 101 and Example of Using Markdown on Rstudio | Richie Erickson, USGS |
| Mermaid Diagrams | William Asquith, USGS |
Metadata Reviewers
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 4, 2021 | Metadata for Data Releases that Include Self-describing Data Files such as netCDF or HDF5 Files | Group Discussion |
| November 1, 2021 | How to update Metadata With Related Publication Information | Group Discussion |
| December 6, 2021 | Lessons Learned for Creating Metadata Templates, Maintaining Point of Contact Fields in the Metadata | Group Discussion |
| January 3, 2022 | Review/Questions of Last Year | Group Discussion |
| February 7, 2022 | How Scientific Data and Metadata are Re-Used | Wade Bishop, University of Tennessee |
| March 7, 2022 | How to Organize Resources/Knowledge Base on New SharePoint Site | Group Discussion |
| April 4, 2022 | How Do Our Offices Handle Non-Standard Metadata Situations? | Group Discussion |
| May 2, 2022 | How Could We Enable Use of URLs that Identify Specific Scientific Variable, in Metadata Records and in Creation and Review of Metadata Records? | Group Discussion |
| June 6, 2022 | How Do We Include (in Datasets) Codes that Qualify Data, Such as Quality Indicators, Detection Limits, or Resolution? | Group Discussion |
| August 1, 2022 | Open forum: codes in data files that qualify data values | Group Discussion |
Risk Research and Applications
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 21, 2021 | FY22 Risk RFP Information Session | Risk community managers |
| Meet some of our new members! | Matthew Jurjonas, Sabine Loos, Connor Dacey | |
| November 18, 2021 | Engaging with Stakeholders to Produce Actionable Science: A Framework and Guidance | Aparna Bamzai |
| Difficult disease decisions: how to reduce risk when dealing with multiple competing objectives and opposing risk tolerances | Evan Grant | |
| December 16, 2021 | Environmental Justice at the Border: The San Diego-Tijuana Earthquake Scenario and a Model for Meaningful Inclusion | Gloria E Muñoz Romero, Elizabeth Reddy |
| March 17, 2022 | An Introduction to the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) | Dionne Duncan-Hughes |
| April 21, 2022 | Applying Environmental Justice to Hazard Mitigation Programs and Research | Olivia Vila |
| May 19, 2022 | Collaborative Learning to Build Climate Resilience in Rural Communities | Chrisy Miller Hesed |
| June 16, 2022 | Meet the General Services Administration's 10x Program | Aleida Fernandez, Will Cahoe |
| July 21, 2022 | FY21 Risk Research Awardee Presentations | Risk team |
Semantic Web
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| November 18, 2021 | Liquefaction model project in ARIES | Ken Bagstad, USGS and Group Discussion |
| January 13, 2022 | Liquefaction model project implementation in ARIES, Update on CDI proposal | Ken Bagstad, USGS and Group Discussion |
| Febuary 10, 2022 | Revisiting the 2015 Controlled Vocabulary Manifesto | Fran Lightsom |
| Convergent evolution in multidisciplinary semantics | Ken Bagstad | |
| April 14, 2022 | Update on the USGS Model Catalog | Leslie Hsu, Group Discussion |
| May 12, 2022 | The People, Projects, Organizations and Products ontology – progress and challenges. | Sean Gordon, Philip Murphy |
| June 9, 2022 | Working with SVO for model and data annotation | Maria Stoica, Group Discussion |
| July 14, 2022 | Discussion of the group's connection to Opportunities to improve alignment with the FAIR Principles for U.S. Geological Survey data (usgs.gov) | Group Discussion |
Software Development
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 28, 2021 | Login.gov, OAUTH and SAML within DOI | Al Pedraza, USGS |
| AzureAD | Zack Moore, USGS | |
| Quick Clarification on GitLab and GitHub | Eric Martinez, USGS | |
| Carl Schroedl - Docker Desktop Alternative(s) | Carl Schroedl, USGS | |
| January 27, 2022 | Dynamic Application Security Testing | Carl Schroedl, USGS |
| Status on Docker Desktop | Carl Schroedl, USGS | |
| Febuary 24, 2022 | A Journey from Oracle to Postgres | Derek Masaki, USGS |
| March 24, 2022 | USWDS for USGS Websites | Mary Bucknell, USGS |
| April 28, 2022 | USGS API Cataloging | Shane Urbanowski, USGS |
| May 26, 2022 | USGS Currently Hosting Environment and GitHub | Eric Martinez, USGS |
| July 28, 2022 | Follow on Discussion to Summer of Software Series presentation "Creating modular code with test driven development" | Group Discussion |
| August 9, 2022 | A peek inside the black box: using explainable AI to better understand machine learning in hydrology | Simon Topp, Upstream Tech |
Tech Stack
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 14, 2021 | OpenTopography - High Resolution Topography Data and Tools | Chris Crosby |
| December 9, 2021 | rOpenSci - Open and Reproducible Research Using Shared Data and Re-Usable Software | Stefanie Butland, Carl Boettiger |
| February 10, 2021 | The National Map – Image Delivery Platform | Liz Huselid, Kwin Keuter |
| March 10, 2022 | National Park Service - Web Mapping Tools | Jim McAndrew |
| April 14, 2022 | GeoCollaborate - Shared Geospatial Data Platform | GeoCollaborate |
| June 10, 2022 | NASA Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP) | Hook Hua, George Chang, Gerald Guala, NASA |
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