CDI FY21 Monthly Meetings
CDI held twelve Monthly Meetings FY 2021. Monthly Meetings provide broad overviews of information and tools to help attendees work with their data.
Recordings, slides, and other meeting materials can be accessed through the CDI SharePoint.
If you are outside of the Department of Interior, please request access through this form.
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 14, 2020 | Serving the U.S. Geological Survey’s geochronological data | Leah Morgan and Amy Gilmer, USGS |
| Rocky Mountain Region Science Exchange | Alicia Torregosa, USGS | |
| Pop-Up Lab: Git; Remote Sensing Forest Classification | Richie Erickson; Joe Adams, USGS | |
| November 11, 2020 | No meeting due to Veterans Day Federal Holiday | |
| December 9, 2020 | Software and Data Carpentries: Transitioning a successful in-person workshop model to function online | Karen Word, The Carpentries |
| Telling Data Stories with Jupyter Notebooks and Pangeo | Richie Erickson and Ed Bulliner, USGS | |
| January 13, 2021 | Usability Collaboration Area Spotlight | Sophie Hou |
| Advanced Scientific Computing in the USGS, including Rescale | Courtney Neu and Janice Gordon | |
| Collecting and serving imagery data online, including the NWIS Imagery Data Storage and Persistence Project | Frank Engel | |
| February 10, 2021 | Bathymetry-VR (Virtual Reality) | Dan Beckman, Martyn Smith, Greg Petrochenkov, Hydrologic Applied Innovations Lab (HAIL), USGS |
| Designing Data-Intensive Science, Discussion of topics of interest for the 2021 CDI Workshop | Leslie Hsu, USGS | |
| March 10, 2021 | Waterbody Rapid Assessment Tool (WaterRAT): 3-dimensional Visualization of High-Resolution Spatial Data | Andrea Medenblik, USGS |
| Implementing FAIR practices: Storing and displaying eDNA data in the USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species database | Jason Ferrante, USGS | |
| Real-time Coastal Salinity Index for monitoring coastal drought and ecological response to changing salinity values | Matt Petkewich, USGS | |
| April 14, 2021 | Moving towards EarthMAP: Establishing linkages among USGS land use, water use, runoff, and recharge models | Terry Sohl, USGS |
| Developing a "fire-aware" stream gage network by integrating USGS enterprise databases | Kitty Kolb, USGS | |
| Ask an Expert/Pop-up Lab - Questions and Answers from the CDI Community | CDI Community | |
| May 12, 2021 | U.S. Geological Survey Wildland Fire Science Strategic Plan | Paul Steblein, USGS |
| What you need to know about the upcoming CDI Workshop | CDI Workshop Team | |
| June 9, 2021 | Building a framework to compute continuous grids of basin characteristics for the conterminous United States | Theodore Barnhart, USGS |
| Using machine learning to map topographic-soil & densely-patterned sub-surface agricultural drainage (tile drains) from satellite imagery | Tanja Williamson, USGS | |
| Enabling AI for citizen science in fish ecology | Nathaniel Hitt, USGS | |
| July 14, 2021 | Development of a flexible multi-channel spatiotemporal geophysical HDF5 data format supporting FAIR | Karl Kappler, DataCloud |
| So you want to build a decision support tool? Assessing successes, pitfalls, and lessons learned for tool design and development | Amanda Cravens, USGS | |
| August 11, 2021 | Data Integration activities in the Superfund Research Program | Michelle Heacock, NIH |
| CDI Pop-up Lab: Communicating about data | CDI Members | |
| September 8, 2021 | USGS Landscape Science Strategy | Zack Bowen, USGS |
| Is there a gap between research and operations in the USGS, and how do we fill it? | Sky Bristol, USGS | |
| Data Standards Information | Amanda Liford, USGS |
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