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Initiative in Environmental Data Science

Join the initiative by NEON, Mesonet, & ESF for innovative curriculum, new skill development, industry partnerships, and impactful research in environmental data science. Sustain through training grants, student programs, government collaboration, and research funding.

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Initiative in Environmental Data Science

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  1. Initiative in Environmental Data Science Team: Steve Shaw, Hyatt Green, Mary Collins, James Gibbs, Colin Beier, LindiQuackenbush, Tim Morin, Chuck Kroll, Jim Sahm, Bahram Salehi, Brian Leydet

  2. Motivation: Emergence of new technologies to collect and process data

  3. National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Source: https://www.neonscience.org/data-collection

  4. Mesonet (Univ. at Albany) Jefferson Project Lake Monitoring (RPI, IBM)

  5. ESFneeds to be part of this transformation

  6. Elements of Initiative

  7. 1. New and innovative curriculum for students: undergrad, graduate, and professional 2. External training to develop new skill sets in faculty and staff 3. Partnership building with industry, state government, and regional academic institutions 4. Incentivizing novel and impactful research 5. Developing a strategy for enhancing research computing A focus on college-wide capacity building

  8. How is it sustained? Multi-pronged approach: • training grants from NSF and NIH • growing student programs (especially at professional level) • new capacity for serving state government • new funded research grants

  9. Big-Tent Approach Ground-Up Approach

  10. Strategic Planning Process goals and subgoals addressed: • SPP Goal 1: Enrich academic excellence in both undergraduate and graduate education. • Expand student, staff and faculty knowledge of techniques and processes associated with existing and new technologies, including digital communications and literacy. • SPP Goal 2: Provide an outstanding student experience. • Expand interdisciplinary research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. • SPP Goal 5: Strategically build and enhance partnerships and • collaborative relationships • SPP Goal 6: Respond to the needs of society. • Reconfigure existing programs to be most relevant to the needs of society. • Enhance and develop new areas of research.

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