Robert Downs, senior digital archivist at Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), co-chaired the January 28 ESIP Winter Meeting session "Toward Improving Representation of Data Quality Information," and gave the presentation "International Collaboration on Data Quality" during the session.
During the Research Showcase on January 27, Downs presented the poster "Adopting the TRUST Principles for Digital Repositories with the GEOSS Data Management Principles and the GEOSS Data Sharing Principles." He also presented the ESIP Martha Maiden Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to the Earth Science Information Community to Hampapuram Ramapriyan, research scientist at Science Systems and Applications, Inc., who has made significant contributions to data management and stewardship at NASA and in national and international networks over multiple decades.
Robert Chen, CIESIN director and manager of NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), also participated in the meeting, which included diverse sessions on such topics as managing model-related data, air quality data user needs, development of analysis-ready data, implementation of Google's data search tool, and use of data during response to California wild fires. SEDAC has been a Type 1 ESIP partner since 1999.