Starting a conversation at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting is easy—just ask any of the more than 25,000 attendees a simple question: Tell me about your science.
Scientists, researchers, and representatives from more than 100 countries and numerous space and Earth science organizations are in San Francisco, California, December 11 to 15 to share discoveries, highlight technical advances, and demonstrate data products.
The theme of the 2023 AGU meeting—Wide. Open. Science.—is a perfect encapsulation of NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program. Open science is a cornerstone of ESDS activities to ensure that the more than 100 petabytes (103.1 petabytes as of the end of November 2023) of NASA Earth science data are fully and openly available without restriction to global data users.
ESDS team members were talking about science even before the formal start of the meeting on December 11. A preconference workshop on Sunday, December 10, Getting Started with NASA Earth Science Data: From Beginner to Expert, showcased ESDS data, services, and tools for new data users to get them up to speed using NASA Earth science data.
The formal start of the AGU Fall Meeting kicked off with ESDS oral sessions and posters. One of the first presentations of the meeting described ways ESDS is making it easier to work with NASA Earth science data, and included descriptions of ESDS Data Pathfinders and the Web Unification initiative. Web Unification is the ongoing effort to migrate ESDS-funded public-facing web properties to a single web domain. The result will be more efficient use of data, better data security, and more streamlined pathways for finding data.
