As announced at the 2024 Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental System Science (ESS) Program Principal Investigators (PI) meeting, ESS-DIVE has $1M of community funds available for members of the ESS community who are interested in working on data management with ESS-DIVE. 

Preference will be given to Priority Topics, however ideas that have clear value for the ESS community are welcome as well.

• New reporting formats
• New versions of existing reporting formats: Improve machine readability and compatibility with FusionDB, BASIN-3D etc., model data archiving for large outputs/ML
• Community data curators: Provide guidance to ESS community on best practices for submitting data to ESS-DIVE & help with adoption of reporting formats
• Data integration: Tools to integrate ESS-DIVE and other BER data
• Community data products: Products using ESS-DIVE & BER data for broad scientific use

To apply, submit a white paper (maximum 2 pages) describing the proposed effort by May 15, 2024 to ess-dive-leadership@lbl.gov. Please review our template with instructions for the whitepaper submissions available here.

You can email ess-dive-leadership@lbl.gov with questions about the whitepapers.

The ESS-DIVE Team is looking forward to participating in the Environmental System Science (ESS) Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Working Group Annual Meeting and ESS PI Meeting on April 15th and April 16th-17th, respectively. Charu Varadharahan, Shreyas Cholia, Joan Damerow, Madison Burrus, and Emily Robles will all be in-person for the ESS CI and ESS PI meetings! Below are some ways that you can engage with ESS-DIVE at both meetings:

 

ESS CI Working Group Annual Meeting – April 15th, 2024

ESS-DIVE Updates / Planning Discussion 

Presenter(s): Charu Varadharajan and Shreyas Cholia, ESS-DIVE PIs

Date and Time: Monday, April 15th; 9:30am to 10:30am EST / 6:30am to 7:30am PST

Presentation Slides

Hands-on Session: ESS-DIVE Data Reporting Formats

Co-Lead(s): Emily Robles, Senior Research Associate; Joan Damerow, Research Scientist

Date and Time: Monday, April 15th; 1:45pm – 3:15pm EST / 10:45am – 12:15pm PST

Presentation Slides

Hands-on Session: Accessing HPC resources with Jupyter notebooks

Co-Lead(s): Shreyas Cholia, ESS-DIVE PI

Date and Time: Monday, April 15th; 1:45pm – 3:15pm EST / 10:45am – 12:15pm PST

Breakouts: Round Robin over three key topics

Facilitator: Charu Varadharajan, ESS-DIVE PI

Date and Time: Monday, April 15th; 3:30pm to 5:00pm EST / 12:30pm to 2:00pm PST

ESS PI Meeting – April 16th to 17th, 2024

Strategic Data Management to Advance Environmental Systems Science

Co-Convener: Joan Damerow, Research Scientist

Session Date and Time: Tuesday, April 16th; 11:15am – 12:45pm EST / 8:15am – 9:45am PST

Presentation Slides

ESS research often requires multidisciplinary science teams to understand and model multi-scale processes that involve diverse data types. More and more data is being collected, with significant resources. As Elizabeth Wolkowich wrote in 2012: “an ecological dataset collected at a certain place and time represents an irreproducible set of observations, ecologists doing local, independent research possess, in their file cabinets and spreadsheets, a wealth of information about the natural world and how it is changing.“ Making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reproducible (FAIR) is not a controversial goal, but it takes intentional data management strategies to achieve this goal, particularly so in large team science projects. Furthermore, integrating datasets from different sources can unlock additional scientific returns on data collection efforts.

This breakout gathers perspectives from data providers, data users and data repositories on intentional data management to make data FAIR. We will collect feedback on technical and community needs for setting the course towards advancing environmental and biological data integration and reuse capabilities. 

Poster: ESS-DIVE Data Repository

Presenter: Shreyas Cholia, ESS-DIVE PI

Session Date and Time: Tuesday, April 16th; 4:00-5:30pm EST / 1:00-2:30pm PST; Poster #12

Poster PDF

Poster: ESS-DIVE: Enabling Integration Across Diverse ESS Datasets

Presenter: Joan Damerow, Community Engagement Lead Scientist 

Session Date and Time: Tuesday, April 16th; 4:00-5:30pm EST / 1:00-2:30pm PST; Poster #18

Poster PDF

Inclusive and Equitable Research: Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Participant: Charu Varadharajan, ESS-DIVE PI

Session Date and Time: Tuesday, April 16th; 5:30pm – 6:30pm EST / 2:30pm – 3:30pm PST

Informal Office Hours / Help

Team Member(s): ESS-DIVE Team

Date and Time: Tuesday, April 16th; 6:30pm – 7:00pm EST / 3:30pm to 4:00pm PST

Lunchtime Breakout: ESS-DIVE Tutorial for PIs and Data Managers

Presenter: Madison Burrus, Computer Systems Engineer

Session Date and Time: Wednesday, April 17th; 12:30pm – 1:30pm EST / 9:30am – 10:30am PST

Presentation Slides

The ESS-DIVE data repository has expanded features and resources to support Environmental System Science, such as project data management and sharing, reporting publication progress, large data support, and enhanced search. This session is designed for ESS PI’s and data managers to learn about the growing suite of features and resources that the ESS-DIVE data repository provides for data management, publication, and use.