CDI Collaboration Area Activity in FY24
Twenty-one collaboration areas were part of the CDI in FY24.
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 | Internet of Things (IoT) | Markdown/LaTeX | Metadata Reviewers | Model Catalog | Power Platform | Risk | Semantic Web | Software Development | Statistics | Tech Stack | Usability
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| November 14, 2023 | Deep-learning-powered cloud and cloud shadow detection product for optical imagery | Valerie Pasquarella, Steve Greenberg, Emily Schechter, Noel Gorelick, Nicholas Clinton, Google |
| December 5, 2023 | A distributed ML model for short-term (10-day) hydrologic forecasting | Simon Topp, Mostafa Elkhurdy, Upstream Tech |
| January 9, 2024 | Semantic Segmentation - Walk | Charles Labuzzetta, USGS |
| February 13, 2024 | Stream water quantity and/or quality forecasting | Jake Zwart, USGS |
| March 12, 2024 | AI Planning Team input | |
| April 9, 2024 | LCNext - Space time transformers for mapping land cover across the US | Rylie Fleckenstein, USGS |
| June 11, 2024 | Earthquake damage ML | David Wald, USGS and Susu Xu, Johns Hopkins |
| July 18, 2024 | Foundation model | Rahul Ramachandran, NASA |
| August 13, 2024 | A survey of uncertainty quantification methods in WMA's neural network predictions | Jeremy Diaz, USGS |
| September 10, 2024 | Earthquake ML applications | Will Yeck, USGS |
Cryosphere
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| October 17, 2023 | Galvanizing the USGS Cryosphere Community | community discussion |
The cryosphere community also held steering committee meetings, drafted a USGS fact sheet, and organized an American Geophysical Union town hall on the USGS Cryosphere Community of Practice.
Data Management
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| October 16, 2023 | Geophysical Survey Data Standard | Burke Minsley, Stephanie James, Leon Foks, USGS |
| November 13, 2023 | Striking a balance between open data principles and protecting sensitive data | Sarah Burton, Ellen Brown, Michiko Beauchamp, USGS |
| January 8, 2024 | Publishing Data to GBIF and OBIS | Stephen Formel, USGS |
| February 12, 2024 | QMS and Data Management Overlap with Focus on Laboratory Quality Controls and Data Reviews | Molly McLaughlin, Delia Ivanoff, Heather Schreppel, Breanna Williams, Lisa Olsen, USGS |
| March 11, 2024 | Are USGS Researchers Citing Their Data? | Grace Donovan, USGS |
| May 13, 2024 | Best Practices for Map Projections | Barry Miller, Dalia Varanka, Ken Bagstad, USGS |
| June 10, 2024 | Data Management Landscape Across USGS: USGS Data Management Staffing Evaluation and recommendation of practices for publication of reproducible data and software releases in the USGS | Madison Langseth, Dave Blodget, Alicia Rhoades, Ellen Brown, USGS |
| July 8, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence | Jeff Tracey, USGS |
| August 12, 2024 | Software Release for Data Managers | Mike O'Donnell, USGS |
| September 9, 2024 | Using Globus Transfer for Large Data Sets | Madison Langseth, USGS |
Data Visualization
The Data Visualization collaboration area hosted a Teams site with conversations and links related to data visualization.
DevOps
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| March 5, 2024 | Pulumi – Infrastructure as Code in Any Programming Language | Kat Morgan, Pulumi |
| April 30, 2024 | Infrastructure as Code using Terraform by HashiCorp | Tim Olsen, HashiCorp |
| May 14, 2024 | Leveraging Platform Engineering and DevSecOps Culture for seamless scientific deployment | Ramon Linares and Aaron Skolnik, Navteca |
| June 18, 2024 | Amazon Cloud Development Kit (CDK) - Infrastructure as Code | Adam Keller, AWS |
Fire Science
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| October 17, 2023 | State of the science of physics-based post-wildfire hydrology modeling: Where are we at and where could we go? | Brian Ebel, USGS |
| November 14, 2023 | Planning Prescription Burning Treatments in Southern California Chaparral that Reduces Resource Loss | Jon Keeley, USGS |
| December 12, 2023 | Comparisons between FSim burn probabilities and observed burned area for the conterminous United States | Amanda Carlson, USGS |
| January 16, 2024 | Stakeholder workshops on post-fire consequences: results and future needs | James Meldrum, USGS |
| February 20, 2024 | Overview of NASA Applied Wildland Fire Science Products, Research and Funding Opportunities | Mike Falkowski and Jacquelyn Shuman, NASA |
| March 19, 2024 | Mapping Conifer Tree Recovery in High-Severity Patches Using Snow-Cover Remote Sensing | Casey Menick, USGS |
| April 16, 2024 | Wildfire Science at NOAA | Dave Turner, Zach Tolby and Jennifer Mahoney, NOAA |
| May 21, 2024 | In the ashes: Lessons learned from the coordinated federal-state-local response to the destruction of historic waterfront town | Renee Takesue, USGS |
| June 18, 2024 | Before the fire: forecasting burn severity and debris-flow hazard for risk assessment | Adam Wells, USGS |
| August 20, 2024 | Improving the collection and accessibility of potential control location fuel monitoring data for pre-fire planning in Eastern Oregon rangelands | Maddy Case, USGS |
| September 17, 2024 | Wildland Fire Research within the US Forest Service | Sara Brown and Jens Stevens, USDA |
Geomorphology
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| Ocotober 24, 2023 | Mapping and Characterizing Channel and Floodplain Hydrogeomorphometry in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed | Labeeb Ahmed and Marina Metes, USGS |
| January 23, 2024 | Geomorphology and the SWOT Satellite Mission | Toby Minear, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| February 27, 2024 | Dammed Ponds! Beaver ponds’ contributions to post-fire sediment dynamics and catchment resilience | Sarah Dunn, USGS |
| March 26, 2024 | Continuous high-resolution suspended-sediment measurements and on-demand sediment budgeting in support of science and resource management | David Topping, Ronald Griffiths, David Dean, USGS |
| April 23, 2024 | Geomorphology from DSWE | John Jones, USGS |
| May 28, 2024 | Divergent Changes in Suspended Sediment Concentrations in Western Washington, 1960s to present | Scott Anderson, Kristin Jaeger, Chris Curran, Sarah Dunn, USGS |
| June 25, 2024 | The Flood Decision Support Toolbox: A Regional Tool for Flood Risk Preparedness and Emergency Management | Sam Wallace, Namjeong Choi, USGS |
| July 23, 2024 | The importance of geomorphology in understanding source and longevity of streambed sediment and phosphorus retention in Maumee River tributaries | Tanja Williamson, USGS |
| August 27, 2024 | Parsimonious landslide susceptibility modeling at continental scales: a new high-resolution national landslides map | Ben Mirus, USGS |
| September 24, 2024 | Imagine a new era in geomorphology monitoring | Joseph Bell, USGS |
Hyperspectral
The Hyperspectral Data collaboration area hosted a Teams site with conversations and links related to hyperspectral data.
Imagery Data
The Imagery Data collaboration area hosted a Teams site with conversations and links related to imagery data.
Inland Bathymetry
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| October 30, 2023 | Bathymetry research coordination | Phil Rufe, USGS |
| December 12, 2023 | Bathymetry research coordination | Phil Rufe, USGS |
| January 19, 2024 | Bathymetry research coordination | Phil Rufe, USGS |
| February 26, 2024 | Bathymetry research coordination | Phil Rufe, USGS |
| March 29, 2024 | Bathymetry research coordination | Phil Rufe, USGS |
| June 4, 2024 | Bathymetry research coordination | Phil Rufe, USGS |
| July 5, 2024 | Bathymetry research coordination | Phil Rufe, USGS |
| August 7, 2024 | Bathymetry research coordination | Phil Rufe, USGS |
| September 3, 2024 | Bathymetry research coordination | Phil Rufe, USGS |
Internet of things (IoT)
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| June 18, 2024 | An Approach to a Reliable Raspberry Pi-based Greenhouse Gas Measurement Network | Tyler Boyle, NIST |
| July 17, 2024 | Evaluating LoRaWAN for use in Next Generation Water Observing System (NGWOS) Monitoring | Joseph Bell, USGS |
| August 21, 2024 | Volcano Science Center Monitoring Instrumentation, or… Everything but the Kitchen Sink | Scott Graham, USGS |
| September 18, 2024 | Review of polls from first series of meetings for this new CoP; Discussion of themes to pursue and direction for future meetings | group discussion |
Markdown/LaTeX
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| October 25, 2023 | Obsidian, directory TREEs, and python environments | Patrick McCarthy, William Asquith, and Mike Fienen, USGS |
| January 24, 2024 | LaTeX for beginners tip, Adding USGS branding to websites with Quarto, Obsidian updates | Rebecca Ransom, Althea Archer, and Richie Erickson, USGS |
| April 24, 2024 | Presentations with Quarto, USGS Series Reports | Gregor Siegmund, Laura DeCicco, and Anna Knight, USGS |
| July 24, 2024 | Automated reports and interactive webmaps | Rebecca Ransom and Anna Knight, USGS |
Metadata Reviewers
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| October 2, 2023 | Issues raised while looking at the FSPAC FAQ at and the Data Management website | Group discussion |
| March 4, 2024 | Finding Metadata Reviewers in Different Centers | Group discussion |
| April 1, 2024 | Review Get To Know the Metadata Reviewers CoP Survey | Group discussion |
| May 6, 2024 | Metadata Show and Tell (Citation Information) | Tara Bell, USGS |
| June 3, 2024 | Metadata Show and Tell (Data Quality) | Adrian Moore, USGS |
| July 1, 2024 | Metadata Show and Tell (Spatial) | Chris Skinner, USGS |
| August 5, 2024 | Metadata Training 101 | Emily Chapin, USGS |
Model Catalog
The Model Catalog working group maintained a Teams site with discussions and links related to the USGS Model Catalog.
Power Platform
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| October 17, 2023 | Deep Dive: New England WSC Float Plan Power App | Sean Andrews, USGS |
| October 18, 2023 | App Demo: InTrac (INventory TRACker) | Travis Adams, USGS |
| October 26, 2023 | Proof of concept with Microsoft contest winner: Cooperative Agreement Power App | |
| November 15, 2023 | Demo: Power BI | Laura Hempel, USGS |
| December 19, 2023 | Follow-up to 10/26/23 proof of concept with Microsoft contest winner: Cooperative Agreement Power App | David Leeth, USGS |
| January 17, 2024 | Instrument Tracking App Development | Joseph Bell, USGS |
| February 1, 2024 | Deep Dive: Instrument tracking app | Joseph Bell, USGS |
| February 21, 2024 | Custom Controls in Power Apps | Power Platform coordinators |
| March 20, 2024 | A) Update on Power Platform Governance; b) App Demo: Environmental Compliance | Sean Strickland, Shannon Gutierrez, USGS |
| April 17, 2024 | A) Power Automate Demo: Managing listservs; B) AI Builder Demo: Automating information extraction | Laura Hempel and Sailor Mueller, USGS |
| May 2, 2024 | ITEM: Efficiencies in USGS Science and Business Processes using the Microsoft Power Platform | Sean Andrews, Sean Strickland, Rebecca Bushon, and Laura Hempel, USGS |
| May 15, 2024 | A) Environments and Service Accounts; B) Power Pages Use Case | Sean Strickland, Sailor Mueller, USGS |
| July 17, 2024 | Power Automate Demos (basics and advanced) | Laura Hempel and Scott Swinson, USGS |
| August 21, 2024 | Power App Demo: Center Request Dashboard | Shannon Beliew, USGS |
| September 18, 2024 | Demo of App Sharing through our SP Site | Sean Strickland and Sean Andrews, USGS |
Risk Research and Applications
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| October 18-20, 2023 | Annual Risk Community of Practice Meeting | Risk team |
| November 3, 2023 | FY24 Risk CoP RFP Information Session. Theme: Moving Fundamental Science to Action: Decision Support. | Risk team |
| November 16, 2023 | Asteroid Impacts and Cascading Hazards | Timothy Titus, USGS |
| Down to Earth With an Electric Hazard from Space | Jeffrey Love, USGS | |
| November 29, 2023 | Decision Support Special Session 1: Risk Analysis for Deciion Support: North Atlantic Right Whale viability Analysis | Mike Runge, USGS |
| January 12, 2024 | Decision Support Special Session 2: Geospatial multi-criteria decision analysis to support siting of tsunami vertical evacuation (TVE) structures | Nate Wood, USGS |
| January 18, 2024 | CONVERGE and the Social Science Extreme Events Research Network (SSEER) | Lori Peek, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| January 25, 2024 | Decision Support Special Session 3: Quantifying the Risk of Global Copper Supply Disruption from Earthquakes | Nedal Nassar, Nicolas Luco, USGS |
| January 31, 2024 | Decision Support Special Session 4: Decision Support for Adaptation Planning: A Case Study of Uncertainty and Risk in the Lowcountry | Mitchell Eaton, Julien Martin, USGS |
| February 15, 2024 | People or Property | Alessandra Jerolleman, USGS |
| March 1, 2024 | How Do We Move from Data Portals towards Decision Support Infrastructure? A National Modeled Water Atlas case study | Shirley Leung, Katrina Alger, USGS |
| March 21, 2024 | Real-Time Flood Impact Map | Athena Clark, USGS |
| A Systems Approach to Understanding the Coast Dynamics of Sea Level Rise | Davina Passeri, USGS | |
| April 18, 2024 | Science Application for Risk Reduction (SAFRR) Multi-Hazard Scenarios | Maureen McCarthy, Christine Albano, Derek Kauneckis, Anne Wein (USGS and Desert Research Institute) |
| May 16, 2024 | Incorporating Nested Uncertainty into Management Decision Making | Evan Grant, USGS |
| Optimizing Management Actions to Mitigate Drought Risk | Riley Mummah, USGS | |
| June 20, 2024 | Evaluating potential health impacts of Great Salt Lake dust events to support decision-making about water conservation and dust mitigation; Actionable decision support to make the nation better prepared for threats from wildlife and zoonotic diseases | Molly Blakowski, Camille Hopkins, USGS |
| August 7, 2024 | Decision Support Special Session 5: Development of a Decision Support Tool to Quantify the Carbon Consequences of Wetland Management | Camille Stagg, USGS |
| August 15, 2024 | Reflecting on the state of USGS science and the place of Risk science in USGS today | Geoff Plumlee, USGS |
| September 3, 2024 | FY25 Risk RFP Information Session | Alice Pennaz, USGS |
| September 19, 2024 | Preparing for Ecological Emergencies: A Framework for Pre-Crisis Data Collection in a Changing World; How to Reduce the Risk of Introducing and Spreading Invasive Species in a Major Disaster | Brian Falk, Michala Philips, USGS |
Semantic Web
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| December 14, 2023 | Report and discussion: Australian Research Data Commons: 2023 Vocabulary Symposium: FAIR Vocabularies For All | Fran Lightsom, USGS |
Software Development
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| October 27, 2023 | Joint with DOI ZeroTrust Community of Practice: ZeroTrust, John Kindervag the creator of the zero trust security model | John Kindervag, independent |
| November 2, 2023 | Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) Lightning Talks and Discussion | facilitated by the CDI Software co-leads |
| November 30, 2023 | Joint with DOI ZeroTrust Community of Practice: Department of the Interior Zero Trust Overview | Lou Eichenbaum, Thomas Hoyler, Jay McMaster, Carl Schroedl, and Jan McCormick |
| December 14, 2023 | Measuring the User Experience: GSA's Touchpoints Tool | Ryan Wold, General Services Administration |
| January 30, 2024 | Zero trust architecture from the author of NIST SP 800-207 Zero Trust Architecture, CISA's Zero Trust Maturity Model, Cyber EO's Cloud Security Technical Reference Architecture, and other documentation | Sean Connelly, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Secruity Agency (CISA) |
| January 30, 2024 | Behind the Scenes at Search.gov | Jim Kreft and Dawn McCleskey, General Services Administration |
| March 14, 2024 | Communicating Science and Software with GovDelivery | Heather Hunsinger, Emily Bischoff, Julie Herrick, USGS |
| May 9, 2024 | Container Basics | Brendan Wakefield, Sam Congdon, Joe Bretz, USGS |
| June 27, 2024 | Zero Trust Architecture and What it Means for Software Development | Lou Eichenbaum, Carl Schroedl, Department of the Interior |
| July 18, 2024 | Docker for the Rest of Us | Laura DeCicco and Jesse Ross, USGS |
| August 7, 2024 | Safer Software, Sooner and Easier: Dynamic Web Application Security Testing with DOI Acunetix 360 | John May, Carl Schroedl, Dept of Interior |
| September 5, 2024 | Live Q&A on DOI Single Sign-On Resources for Implementing Multifactor Authentication and Zero Trust Architecture | Community discussion |
| September 23, 2024 | Making it Easy to Do the Right Thing: Source Code Management and DevSecOps Pipelines at BLM | Steven Trumbull, Christopher Youll, Bureau of Land Management |
Statistics
The Statistics collaboration area hosted a Teams site with conversations, introductions, and links related to statistics.
Tech Stack
The Tech Stack collaboration area activities were hosted jointly by the USGS and the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) It&I Committee.
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
| October 26, 2023 | Improving standards and documentation publishing methods: Why can’t we cross the finish line? | Scott Simmons, Open Geospatial Consortium |
| November 9, 2023 | Persistent Unique Well Identifiers: Why does California need well IDs? | Hanna Ake, California Water Data Consortium |
| January 11, 2024 | Using Earth Observations for Sustainable Development | Sharif Islam, MIT |
| February 15, 2024 | Creating Great Data Products in the Cloud | Jed Sundwall, Radiant Earth |
| March 14, 2024 | Creating operational decision ready data with remote sensing and machine learning. | Brian Goldin, Voyager |
| April 11, 2024 | A Home for Earth Science Data Professionals - ESIP Communities of Practice | Allison Mills, Earth Science Information Partners |
| May 9, 2024 | Achieving FAIR water quality data exchange thanks to international OGC water standards | Sylvain Grellet, Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières |
| June 13, 2024 | Evaluation and recommendation of practices for publication of reproducible data and software releases in the USGS | Alicia Rhoades, Dave Blodgett, Ellen Brown, Jesse Ross, USGS |
| July 11, 2024 | Update on OGC GeoZarr Standards Working Group | Brianna Rita Pagán, NASA |
| August 8, 2024 | Introducing Chris Battisto, new IT&I Committee Chair | Chris Battisto, ADNET Systems |
| September 12, 2024 | Harmony – NASA’s System for Managing DataTransformation Service Workflows at Scale | Vinny Inverso, NASA |
Usability
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| November 8, 2023 | Supporting usability work across the government at 18F | Neil Martinsen-Burrell, 18F |
| April 24, 2024 | What is journey mapping? | Rachel Bryan, USGS |
| June 13, 2024 | Connecting with our stakeholders—developing a better understanding of use and usability of science projects | Dawn Kotowicz, USGS |
| August 28, 2024 | User research and iterative usability testing for delivery modeled water-availability information | Shirley Leung, USGS |
| September 25, 2024 | Usability Collaboration Office Hours | Rachel Bryan, USGS |
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