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CDI FY26 Monthly Meetings

CDI held ten Monthly Meetings FY 2026. 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 membership form.

DateTopicPresentersAttendance
December 10, 2025Communicating Science with Data Science and VisualizationsAlthea Archer and Anthony Martinez, USGS241
CDI Lab Notes: How we use AILeslie Hsu, USGS
January 4, 2026CDI Request for Proposals Statement of Interest Lightning Talksvarious232
February 11, 2026USGS Northeast Region Capability Teams - Encouraging Interdisciplinary Scientist-to-Scientist Collaboration Vivian Nolan, Adam Mumford, and Heather Walsh, USGS175
Building the Cooperative National Geologic MapJoe Colgan and Sam Johnstone, USGS 
March 11, 2026How can the CDI support USGS scientific modelers? Leslie Hsu, USGS 161
Using AI to create a numerical model and animation Chris Sherwood, USGS 
USGS modeling and external modeling partners and organizationsIan Reeves, USGS
April 8, 2026CDI Project: An application for automation and streamlining of workflow for modeling of time-series data Kyle Puls, USGS204
CDI Project: Snakemake Training: Building Data Pipelines in Python Andy McAliley, USGS 
May 13, 2026IPDS Next Gen: A Modernized System for USGS Information Product Review, Approval, and TrackingSusan McIlroy and Laura Hempel, USGS178
CDI Project: GeoDRAW Geospatial Data Retrieval and Alignment Workflow Jeffrey Kwang, USGS
June 10, 2026CDI Project: Leveraging the National Water Model to inform binational management of invasive carp in North America  Jessica LeRoy, USGS 148
CDI Project: Scaling-up phenological date matching for invasive species mapping: a free opensource workflow Richard Inman, USGS 
July 8, 2026CDI Project: Advancing the Geophysical Survey (GS) data standard and GSPy toolboxBennett Hoogenboom, USGS155
CDI Project: A Scalable System for Geospatial Delivery of Hi-Res Data Products From Mobile Monitoring PlatformsChuck Hansen, USGS
August 12, 2026CDI Project: Git and Software Release Workshop for USGS and Analysis Ready Data (ARD) Python Use CasesBojan Milinic, USGS169
CDI Project: Understanding and streamlining environmental DNA QA/QC analysisChris Merkes, USGS
CDI Pop-Up Lab - Recent and upcoming data meetings and workshops round-upvarious
September 9, 2026CDI Project: Is it me or the Water Quality Portal? Providing real-time download reliability metrics to usersElise Hinman, USGS156
CDI Project: Data quality control for everyone: a course and recipes for well-documented data workflows in RGregor-Fausto Siegmund, UCLA

 

 

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