CDI Collaboration Area Activity in FY25
Twenty-one collaboration areas were part of the CDI in FY25.
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 | Collections Preservation and Management | Data Management | Data Visualization | DevOps | Fire Science | Geomorphology | Hyperspectral | Imagery Data | Inland/Bathymetry | Internet of Things (IoT) | Markdown/LaTeX | Metadata Reviewers | Modeling | Power Platform | Risk | Software Development | Statistics | Team Science | Tech Stack | Usability
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| October 22, 2024 | Update on the USGS Artificial Intelligence Strategy | Janice Gordon and Alison Appling (USGS) |
| April 15, 2025 | Pattern, Process, and Practice: Exploring Spatial and Social Dynamics of BMP Adoption in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed | Patrick Bitterman (Kent State University) |
| June 10, 2025 | DEEP-VIEW Fusion of Observations and Models to Inform Water Quality Management Decisions in the Chesapeake Bay | Stephanie Schollaert Uz and Troy Ames (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) |
| July 22, 2025 | A Foundation Model for the Earth System | Wessel Bruinsma (Alan Turing Institute) |
| September 9, 2025 | AlphaEarth Foundations and the Satellite Embedding dataset | Valerie Pasquarella (Google) |
Collections Preservation and Management
| Date | Topics | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| December 19, 2024 | Collections Management Training with the Geological Materials Repository | Alejandra Angulo (USGS) |
| January 8, 2025 | Collection and Sample Metadata | Alejandra Angulo (USGS) |
| February 5, 2025 | Inventory Tools and Collections Management Systems | Jeannine Honey (USGS); Kurt Johnson and Chris Ramey (Alaska Geologic Materials Center) |
| March 5, 2025 | Map Preservation | Rebecca Ransom (USGS) and Brad Gottschalk (Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey) |
| April 2, 2025 | Collections Preservation and Management Office and Network Hour | Alejandra Angulo (USGS) |
| June 3, 2025 | Collections Preservation and Management Office Hours | Alejandra Angulo (USGS) |
| July 1, 2025 | Supporting sample citation: best practices from the ESIP Physical Sample Curation Cluster | Natalie Raia and Andrea Thomer (ESIP) |
Data Management
| Date | Topics | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| November 18, 2024 | Model Application Archiving Best Practices | Martha Watt (USGS) |
| December 12, 2024 | Learning more about the USGS Data Advisory Board | Mike Frame (USGS) |
| January 13, 2025 | Metadata for Imagery | John Kelly (USGS) |
| February 10, 2025 | USGS Imagery Data Systems and Their Metadata | Frank Engel, Seth Ackerman, Evan Dailey, and Scott Horvath (USGS) |
| March 18, 2025 | National Geologic Map Database (NGMDB) and the Geologic Map Schema (GeMS) | David Soller (USGS) |
| April 14, 2025 | Physical Samples and International Generic Sample Numbers | Mikki Johnson and Madison Langseth (USGS) |
| April 29, 2025 | Exploring Responsible AI for Effective Data Management (Part of CDI Workshop) | Brandon Serna (USGS), Marc Hunter (USGS), Tudor Vasile, Chirag Shah, Austin Aguilar (ORNL) |
| June 9, 2025 | From Ground Shaking to Data at your Desktop: An overview of the Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory data flow | James Holland and Adam Ringler (USGS) |
| July 21, 2025 | Data Licensing | Amanda Liford (USGS) |
| August 11, 2025 | Cloud Optimized File Formats | Jay Laura (USGS) |
| September 8, 2025 | Tribal Relations and Data Reviews and Publishing | Chris Hammond, Shaleene Chavarria, and Annie Scott (USGS) |
Data Visualization
The Data Visualization collaboration area hosted a Teams site with conversations and links related to data visualization.
DevOps
| Date | Topics | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| July 15, 2025 | Terraform & OpenTofu – Wizards Guide to Well-Architected Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Workloads | Craig Reeder (Uturn Data Solutions) |
| August 26, 2025 | Enhancing Observability (o11y) in NGTOC’s AWS Cloud Environment | Ryan Phillips (XTS Contractor for USGS-NGTOC) |
Fire Science
| Date | Topics | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| October 15, 2024 | Contemporary Wildfire Trends and Landscape Patterns | Michele Crist (USGS) |
| November 22, 2024 | Assessing the Proliferation, Connectivity, and Consequences of Invasive Fine Fuels | Morgan Roche (USGS) |
| December 20, 2024 | USGS Wildland Fire Science Program: Where Have We Come and Where We Can Go | Paul Steblein (USGS) |
| January 22, 2025 | SPARCS: Suppression and Planning Actions for Restoring Communities and Species in the Southern California Ecoregion | Austin Parker and Robert Fisher (USGS) |
| February 19, 2025 | Recurrent Challenges of Fire for Mining Remediation in the Salmon River Mountains, Idaho | JoAnn Holloway (USGS) |
| March 19, 2025 | Beyond Vegetation Change: Applications of SAR, Thermal, and Multispectral Time Series for Monitoring Post-Fire Ecohydrology and Characterizing Wildlife Habitat | Miguel Villarreal (USGS) |
| April 17, 2025 | Post-Fire Impacts on Wildland and Urban Ecosystem Recovery and Resilience in California | Carl Norlen (USGS) |
| May 20, 2025 | Rising Rates of Wildfire Building Destruction in the U.S. | Amanda Carlson (USGS) |
| May 29, 2025 | Fueling Discovery Webinar – Patterns of Increasing Building Loss from Wildfires in the Conterminous U.S. 2000–2020 | Amanda Carlson (USGS) |
| June 17, 2025 | Characterizing Water-Quality Response After the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire Using a Novel Application of the Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season Method | Manya Ruckhaus (USGS) |
| July 15, 2025 | Did We Start the Fire? Drought, Fire and Humans | Natalie Kehrwald (USGS) |
| August 19, 2025 | Burn Severity of Fire Across the Southeastern United States | Melanie Vanderhoof (USGS) |
Geomorphology
| Date | Topics | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| October 22, 2024 | Observing River Avulsion Dynamics From Space | Jake Gearon (Indiana University) |
| November 21, 2024 | Monitoring Erosion and Understanding Potential Effects of Climate Change on Caulks Creek, Wildwood, MO | Jess LeRoy (USGS) |
| December 18, 2024 | Landscape Evolution Modeling: Deciphering the Past and Predicting the Future | Jeffrey Kwang (USGS) |
| January 28, 2025 | Detecting Topographic and Shallow-Bathymetric Change Along the Western Shoreline of the Shinnecock Nation Tribal Lands Following Winter Storm Elliot | Michael Noll (USGS) |
| February 26, 2025 | Using Repeat Lidar to Identify Urban Streambank Erosion Hotspots in Raleigh, North Carolina | Charles Stillwell, Kristina Hopkins, Laura Gurley, and Deanna Hardesty (USGS) |
| March 25, 2025 | How Can a Database of River Cross-Sections Support Your Research? A Deep Dive Into Methods and Exploring Applications | Amanda Whaling (USGS) |
| April 22, 2025 | Spatial and Temporal Variations in Suspended Sediment Dynamics of a Lowland Meandering Floodplain: Implications for Channel-Floodplain Connectivity | Chelsy Salas (USGS) |
| May 27, 2025 | MacGyver Methods Lightning Talks | various |
| June 24, 2025 | New Spatial and Analytical Methods for Lidar-Derived Hydrography | Pete Steeves (USGS) |
| July 22, 2025 | Hacking Limnology Workshop: Toolbox for River Velocimetry Using Images From Aircraft (TRiVIA) Software | Carl Legleiter and Paul Kinzel (USGS) |
| August 26, 2025 | Flood Inundation Mapping From Space: A Novel Approach for Tracking River Inundation Extent Over Time | Nathan Pasley (USGS) |
| September 30, 2025 | High-Resolution Repeat Bathymetric Surveys of Lower Missouri River Bed Sediment Dynamics | Carrie Elliott (USGS) |
Hyperspectral
| Date | Topics | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| November 4, 2024 | Landsat Next, Earth MRI (Earth Mapping Resources Initiative), EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation), SBG (Surface Biology and Geology) Updates and Landsat Next - SBG Workshop 2025 Planning | Raymond Kokaly, Itiya Aneece, Zhuoting Wu, and Christopher Crawford (USGS) |
| January 17, 2025 | Hyperspectral Imaging System for Ice Cores; Performance of New Generation Hyperspectral Sensors in Classifying Agricultural Crops Using Machine Learning and AI; Global Hyperspectral Imaging Spectral-Library of Agricultural-Crops and Vegetation (GHISA) Crop Residue Follow-Up Topic | Andrei Kurbatov (University of Maine), Prasad Thenkabail, Itiya Aneece (USGS), Dean Hively (USGS) |
Imagery Data
The Imagery Data collaboration area hosted a Teams site with conversations and links related to imagery data.
| Date | Topics | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| March 20, 2025 | Flow Photo Explorer | Phillip Goodling, Jennifer Fair, and Ben Letcher (USGS) |
| May 21, 2025 | Imagery Work in the Willamette River Basin | Paul Kinzel (USGS) and Mahmoud Ayyad (Stevens Institute) |
| September 18, 2025 | GRIME AI | John Stranzl (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) |
Inland Bathymetry
| Date | Topics | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| October 3, 2024 | Inland Bathymetry Monthly Coordination Call | Phil Rufe (USGS) |
| November 15, 2024 | Inland/Coastal Bathymetry Coordination Call | Phil Rufe (USGS) |
| December 16, 2024 | Inland/Coastal Bathymetry Coordination Call | Phil Rufe (USGS) |
| January 22, 2025 | Inland/Coastal Bathymetry Coordination Call | Phil Rufe (USGS) |
| February 27, 2025 | Inland/Coastal Bathymetry Coordination Call | Phil Rufe (USGS) |
| March 27, 2025 | Inland/Coastal Bathymetry Coordination Call | Phil Rufe (USGS) |
| April 24, 2025 | Inland/Coastal Bathymetry Coordination Call | Phil Rufe (USGS) |
| June 25, 2025 | Inland/Coastal Bathymetry Coordination Call | Phil Rufe (USGS) |
| July 25, 2025 | Inland/Coastal Bathymetry Coordination Call | Phil Rufe (USGS) |
| August 7, 2025 | Inland/Coastal Bathymetry Coordination Call | Phil Rufe (USGS) |
| September 12, 2025 | Inland/Coastal Bathymetry Coordination Call | Phil Rufe (USGS) |
Internet of things (IoT)
| Date | Topics | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| November 20, 2024 | Implementing Sensor-to-Cloud Workflows in Grand Canyon: IoT Approaches for Data Collection and Transmission | Tom Gushue and Joe Thomas (USGS) |
| December 18, 2024 | Things Desperately Reaching From the Field Toward the Internet | Paul Cryan (USGS) |
| February 20, 2025 | Roadmap for IoT in USGS | John Parks (USGS) |
Markdown/LaTeX
| Date | Topics | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| November 6, 2024 | Quarto-Drop, WebR, and Pyodide | Leslie Hsu, Rebecca Ransom, and Richie Erickson (USGS) |
| February 26, 2025 | Markdown Show and Tell | Richie Erickson, Rebecca Ransom, and Leslie Hsu (USGS) |
| May 28, 2025 | Using Quarto Templates to Make Duplicating MD Elements Easier, How Markdown Formatting Helps Me Use Generative AI Such as DOI ChatGPT, and an Overleaf Update | Leslie Hsu, Althea Archer, and Richie Erickson (USGS) |
Metadata Reviewers
| Date | Topics | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| October 7, 2024 | Metadata Wizard Updates | Tamar Norkin (USGS) |
| November 4, 2024 | Metadata Reviewers Monthly Meeting | Madison Langseth (USGS) |
| November 18, 2024 | Metadata Show and Tell: Entity and Attributes | Adrian Moore (USGS) |
| January 6, 2025 | Metadata Reviewers Open Discussion | Madison Langseth (USGS) |
| February 3, 2025 | Data Dictionaries, the Metadata Review Checklist, and Recommended Keywords by Domain | Madison Langseth (USGS) |
| March 3, 2025 | Open Discussion | Madison Langseth (USGS) |
| April 7, 2025 | Metadata for Model Application Data Release | Madison Langseth (USGS) |
| May 5, 2025 | Open Discussion | Madison Langseth (USGS) |
| June 2, 2025 | Metadata Reviewers Open Discussion | Madison Langseth (USGS) |
| July 7, 2025 | Metadata Reviewers Open Discussion | Madison Langseth (USGS) |
| August 4, 2025 | Open Discussion and the Publisher Value for Data in Non-USGS Approved Repositories | Madison Langseth (USGS) |
Modeling
The Modeling Collaboration Area maintained a Teams site with discussions and links related to scientific modeling trainings and webinars.
Power Platform
| Date | Topics | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| October 16, 2024 | Business Practices Power App Demonstrations: Charge Card Tracking App and Inventory App | Alex Holzinger and Dawson Bezehertny (USGS) |
| November 20, 2024 | Build-an-app Series: Travel App Conceptualization and Design | Rebecca Bushon (USGS) |
| January 15, 2025 | Building the Foundation for our Travel App | Lauren Hempel (USGS) |
| February 19, 2025 | Adding Functionality for our Travel App | Lauren Hempel (USGS) |
| August 20, 2025 | Copilot Studio Demo | Ben Butler and Alex Krasniewski (Microsoft) |
Risk Research and Applications
| Date | Topics | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| October 17, 2024 | Navigating Risks – A Roundtable Discussion With Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (VDAP) Scientists | Jacob Lowenstern, Wendy McCausland, Heather Wright, Beth Bartel (USGS) |
| November 21, 2024 | 2024 Annual Risk Community of Practice Meeting: Day 1 | |
| November 22, 2024 | 2024 Annual Risk Community of Practice Meeting: Day 2 | |
| November 23, 2024 | 2024 Annual Risk Community of Practice Meeting: Day 3 | |
| January 16, 2025 | Hazard Ready Nation Initiative at USGS | Alice Pennaz (USGS) |
| March 20, 2025 | Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Cross Sector Collaboration to Reduce Risk and Inform Decision Making | Susan Shingledecker (ESIP), Megan Orlando (ESIP), Dave Jones (Storm Center Communications), Douglas Rao (NOAA), Qian Huang (East Tennessee State University), Leslie Hsu (USGS) |
| April 17, 2025 | Navigating Research Transitions With Structure and Strategy | Isha Renta, Castle Williamsberg, Abby Arnold (NOAA) |
| May 2, 2025 | R2O/R2X Seminar Series #1: USGS Invasive Grass Carp Research Program: A Research-to-Operation Example Addressing a Chronic Hazard to the Great Lakes | P. Ryan Jackson, Amy George, Holly Embke (USGS) |
| May 15, 2025 | NASA SPoRT’s Approach to Translating NASA Earth Science to Applications and Decision-Making | Emily Berndt (NASA) |
| May 20, 2025 | R2O/R2X Seminar Series #2: R2O and the Earthquake Hazards Program: HAZDEV | Michelle Guy (USGS) |
| June 17, 2025 | R2O/R2X Seminar Series #3: From Bench to Basin: Advancing Microbial Natural Gas Production From Lab to Operations | Elliott Barnhart (USGS) |
| July 9, 2025 | R2O/R2X Seminar Series #4: Critical Mineral Assessment With AI Support (CriticalMAAS): Tools for Maps, Mineral Sites, and Prospectivity Mapping | Graham Lederer (USGS) |
| July 17, 2025 | Office of Risk and Resilience Updates: Hazard Ready Nation Strategy, Disaster Loss Reporting, Hazard Exposure, and the Risk CoP | Alice Pennaz and Jack Friedman (USGS) |
| July 29, 2025 | R2O/R2X Seminar Series #5: Machine Learning Streamflow Drought Forecasts for the Conterminous U.S.: Developing and Evaluating an Operational Tool to Enhance Subseasonal to Seasonal Streamflow Drought Early Warning for Gaged Locations | John Hammond (USGS), Gericke Cook (USGS), Kelsey Satalino (NIDIS), Hayley Corson-Dosch (USGS), Meredith Muth (NIDIS) |
| August 29, 2025 | R2O/R2X Special Seminar Series #6: USGS WMA (Water Mission Area) Technology Transition Framework: A Guide to Efficient Research to Operations | Russ Lotspeich (USGS), Brian Pellerin (USGS), Joe Bell (USGS), and Mario Tamburri (Univ. of Maryland) |
| September 18, 2025 | New World Screwworm: An Emerging Threat to Livestock and Wildlife | LeAnn White and Dan Grear (USGS) |
| September 23, 2025 | R2O/R2X Special Seminar Series #7: Snow Science, Clear Decisions: Research Supporting Avalanche Operations | Erich Peitzsch (USGS), Adam Clark (BNSF), and Simon Trautman (USDA) |
Software Development
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| October 22, 2024 | (IM)PROVE IT! – DevSecOps’ Empirically Validated Improvements to Performance, Well-Being, and Outcomes | Nathen Harvey (DORA) |
| November 5, 2024 | Intro to GitLab Part I | Sameer Kamani and Josepth Rosado (GitLab) |
| November 6, 2024 | Intro to GitHub Actions – Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery | Alex Williamson (GitHub) |
| November 20, 2024 | Intro to GitLab Part II | Sameer Kamani and Joseph Rosado (GitLab) |
| November 21, 2024 | Safer Software, Sooner and Easier with GitHub Advanced Security | Alex Williamson (GitHub) |
| December 11, 2024 | Yule Logging, Merry Monitoring, and Alerting Bells | Michael Murphy and Clint Hall (Bureau of Reclamation) |
| January 2, 2025 | New Year, New Conda Installation Process | Amy Kamp, Tom Van Heel, and Dennis Ventetuolo (Enterprise Security Standards) |
| April 23, 2025 | Byte-Sized Lightning Talks: Part I | various |
| May 6, 2025 | Byte-Sized Lightning Talks: Part II | various |
| August 28, 2025 | Introduction to CICD with Git Automation | Brendan Wakefield (USGS) |
| September 17, 2025 | Introduction to Kubernetes | Gardner Pierson (DOI) |
Statistics
The Statistics collaboration area hosted a Teams site with conversations, introductions, and links related to statistics.
Team Science
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| October 9, 2024 | Team Science CoP Inaugural Meeting | Kyle Blasch (USGS NWPIR) and Amanda Cravens (USGS FRESC) |
| November 20, 2024 | The Benefits of Big-Team Science for Conservation: Lessons Learned From Trinational Monarch Butterfly Collaborations | Jay Diffendorfer (USGS GECSC) |
| January 15, 2025 | Team Science Perspectives From Early Career Scientists | Carl Norlen (USGS CSS) and Michael Meyer (OWSC) |
| February 19, 2025 | USGS Program Perspectives on Team Science | Hilary Stockdon (USGS CMHRP) and Lori Sprague (USGS IWWAs) |
| March 19, 2025 | Center Director Perspectives on Team Science | Joanna Thamke (USGS OWSC) and Chris Zimmerman (AKSC) |
| April 16, 2025 | USGS Team Science to Support Great Lakes Restoration and USGS Chesapeake Bay Studies | Jon Hortness (USGS) and Jimmy Webber (USGS) |
| May 21, 2025 | Intersection of Team Science and Fundamental Science Principles With BAO (Bureau Approving Officers) Q&A | Viv Hutchinson (USGS OSQI), Meredith Nevers (USGS OSQI), Jeff Ziegeweid (USGS OSQI), Natalie Latysh (USGS OSQI), Kristen Marra (USGS OSQI) |
| June 18, 2025 | Role of the USGS Chief Scientist's Office in Promoting USGS Science That Crosses Organizational Boundaries | David Applegate (USGS Chief Scientist) |
| July 16, 2025 | Team Science in the CAP Fellows Program: Learning by Doing | Madeleine Rubenstein (USGS NCASC) and Aaron Russell (USGS SWBSC) |
| August 20, 2025 | Participatory Engagement Enabled by Post-Hurricane Disaster Supplemental Project | Legna Torres García and Dawn Kotowicz (USGS SPMCSC) |
| September 17, 2025 | Scientific Integrity at USGS | Gary Burke (USGS OSQI) and Maggie Hardy (USGS OSQI) |
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 | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| October 10, 2024 | Hyrax in the Cloud: Enabling Cloud-Performant Data Access with OPeNDAP | Miguel Jimenez-Urias (OPeNDAP) |
| November 14, 2024 | Moving the needle on Graphing and Synthesizing USGS Continuous and Discrete Water-Quality Data | Kimberly Shaffer, Laura DeCicco, and Matthew Diebel (USGS) |
| January 9, 2025 | Py-Rocket, a Docker Image for Cross-Language Collaboration | Eli Holmes (NOAA) |
| February 13, 2025 | Simplifying Analysis of Hierarchical HDF5 and NetCDF4 Files with xarray.Datatree | Eni Awowale (NASA) |
| March 13, 2025 | Archiving and Mobilizing Environmental Data | Lourdes Vera (University of Buffalo) |
| May 8, 2025 | deadtrees.earth - An Open Access & Interactive Database for Global Tree Mortality Dynamics | Clemens Mosig (Leipzig University) |
| July 10, 2025 | Python Package XBatcher for Training and Inference With Deep Learning Models | Keenan Ganz (University of Washington) |
| August 14, 2025 | ESIP July Meeting Session Debrief | Keenan Ganz (University of Washington) |
Usability
| Date | Topics | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| October 30, 2024 | Affinity Mapping: Interactive Learning Activity | Rachel Bryan, USGS |
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