FUNding Friday

What is FUNding Friday?

FUNding Friday is an annual mini-grant competition associated with ESIP’s July Meeting. The mini-grants are available to ESIP meeting attendees ($5000) and to students and Education Committee workshop participants ($3000), with the total number of awards specified annually; generally 2-4 awards per participant group.

Projects are expected to be completed over a one-year period between the July Meeting of the award and the next July Meeting.

Past Winners

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

  • Bruce Caron, Adam Shepherd – Working Group Syndicated Content Tool
  • Kaijian Xu – Rich Semantic Annotation for Science Media Repositories
  • Kelly Monteleone – Converting mb-system Files in Windows and Apple
  • Kevin Dobbs – Leveraging the Power of Google Earth Engine to Derive High Quality Water Reference Data for Flood Disaster Decision Support
  • Kyle Nelson – Enhancing and Educating with the WxSat Mobile App
  • Lee Hyokyung – HDFCRAFT – Making Earth Data Fun!
  • Matt Ferrito – ToolMatch Extension
  • Linyun Fu, Massimo Di Stephano – Towards Automatic Provenance Capturing for Research Publications

2013

  • Annette Schloss – Demonstration of a mobile application for estimating forest canopy closure using digital photographs
  • Denise Hills – Making the Case for Data Stewardship Use Cases: A Community Building and Engagement Exercise
  • Jin Guang Zheng – Semantic Similarity Computation and Concept Mapping in Earth and Environmental Science
  • Chunming Peng (student award) – Agricultural Drought Information Cluster
  • Emily Northrup (student winner) – Aquaponics For Triage and Emergency Response (AFTER)

Other FUNding Friday-inspired projects:

  • CheapStix: Distributing and Running OPeNDAP servers on a Virtual Machine
  • 1-Click Satellite Data: A Java applet that let’s you display current satellite data anywhere in the world with one simple mouse click.

2012

  • Tanya Flores – Climate Change – One Student @ a Time
  • Xiaogang Ma – Exploratory visualization of earth science data in a Semantic Web context
  • Bruce Caron – Preprint Service with Open Review
  • Vicky Wolf – Revitalizing Forgotten Data: Bringing 40 years of Glacial Photography into the Digital Age
  • Sarah Ramdeen, Angela Murillo (student award) – Assessing Skills, Access and Trust of Data Use and Reuse within the ESIP community
  • Reid Boehm – Interactive Federation Network Analysis Tool

2011

  • Annette Schloss – Digital Earth Watch in Action
  • Karl Benedict, Rafael Ameller – Enhanced Collaborative Disaster Management Through Interoperable Data Visualization
  • Tom Narock and Eric Rozell – Linked Open Research Data for Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • Jesse Roberts (student award) – Engaging Climate Change Learners in Public School Settings
  • Oleg Aulov (student award) – Self-Organizing Maps for Automated Oil-Spill Detection
  • Demonstrating preservation connections using OAI-ORE

2010

  • Weiguo Han – Sharing and Analyzing Dem Datasets through DEM Explorer
  • Rebecca Reid, Margaret Mooney – Continuing the Connections
  • Rahul Ramachandran – Can you build an iPhone app without needing a developer?
  • Marlene Taylor (student award) – Beaver Creek Project
  • Matthew Rogan (student award) – Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder Charts Project
  • Annie Byrnes (student award) – State Tectonics Project
  • Qunying Huang, Min Sun, Jing Li (student award) – Spatial Cloud Project

2009

  • Erin Robinson – Air Twitter
  • World Ocean Atlas Upgrade
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  • Eliza Bradley, Michael Toomey (student award) – PanOpt project

2008

  • Bruce Caron – Helpr
  • Karl Benedict – WMS/KML Interoperability Development
  • Tamara Ledley – Earth Exploration Toolbook Chapter on Air Quality
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