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December 10, 2025

• Communicating Science with Data Science and Visualizations, Althea Archer and Anthony Martinez, USGS
   
• CDI Lab Notes: How we use AI, CDI Facilitators and CDI Members

October 8, 2025 (meeting cancelled and talks postponed)

• Background and building of the Cooperative National Geologic Map, Joe Colgan and Sam Johnstone, USGS
   
• CDI Pop-Up Lab, CDI Facilitators
   
   

September 10, 2025

• CDI Project: USGS Data in K–12 Education — Inspiring Future Scientists, Jess McKay and Joseph Zemmels, USGS
   
• CDI Project: Developing Templates for Releasing and Archiving Individual-Based Genotype Data, Amy Vandergast, USGS
   
• New Sample Tracking Approaches Resource: Strengthening Connectivity and Collaboration Among USGS Laboratories, Susan McIlroy, USGS

August 13, 2025

• State of the Communities of Practice, Leslie Hsu, USGS
   
• Modernized, standardized Web delivery for USGS data: an example from Water, Dave Blodgett and Michael Mahoney, USGS
   
• CDI 2025 DataBlast: Lightning Talks from the Community 

July 9, 2025

• CDI Project: Expansion of the Geophysical Survey (GS) data standard and open-source tools, Stephanie James, USGS
   
• Online and in-person learning for decision making: The NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) Program, Melanie Follette-Cook, NASA
   

June 11, 2025

• CDI Project: Enhancing ArcGIS Survey123 to improve rangeland and aquatic data collection, Justin Welty, USGS
   
• Digital Collections in the USGS Library’s Catalog, Debbie Frye, USGS

May 14, 2025

• CDI Project: A National Tool for Graphing and Synthesizing Continuous and Discrete Water-Quality Data, Kimberly Shaffer and Laura DeCicco, USGS
   
• Follow up from the CDI Workshop, CDI facilitators

April 9, 2025

• CDI Project: Making water tracing rock solid: a national, geologic map-based visualization of USGS water strontium isotope data, Adam Hudson, USGS
   
• Hosting Interactive Jupyter Notebooks with Cloud Hosting Solution's Posit Connect, Richie Erickson, USGS
   
• CDI Project: SeeOtter: Improving software for AI-assisted processing of imagery for wildlife surveys, Collin Power, Wildlife AI/ USFWS & USGS contractor
   
• CDI Workshop Preview, CDI Facilitators

March 12, 2025

• CDI Project: USGS Introduction to Git and Software Release Course, Madison Langseth, USGS 
   
• CDI Project: 3DEPPCC: An automated Deep Learning-based point cloud classification tool for 3DEP point clouds, Jung kuan Liu, USGS
   

February 12, 2025

• Watching Wavelengths on a Budget: a low-cost, IoT enabled radiometer prototype with AWS and Foundry, Thomas Bergamaschi, USGS 
   
• High Performance Computing (HPC): A roadmap for scientific success, Ronald Rodriguez, USGS
   
• USGS Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Services, Lori Hernandez, USGS

January 8, 2025

• Implementing the USGS Public Access Plan: Impacts to Scientists and Recommendations - Viv Hutchison and Kelly Haberstroh, USGS
   
• The USGS Artificial Intelligence Strategy - Janice Gordon and Alison Appling, USGS

December 11, 2024

There is no CDI Monthly Meeting in December.

November 13, 2024

• Image Analysis System for River Color Classification using Machine Learning - Thomas Gushue and Joseph Thomas, USGS
   
• Exploring Green(er)Grass at USGS CoastCam sites, Eric Swanson, USGS
   
• CDI Pop-Up Lab: CDI Community Voting on Statements of Interest, CDI Workshop Session Submission and Registration, and more, CDI Facilitators
   

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