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ESIP is a home for Earth science data and computing professionals. Our sessions bring together the community for hands-on, interdisciplinary deep dives.

2027 January Meeting

2026 July Meeting

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Trusted Science: Integrity Across Data Landscapes

ESIP Meetings cover current trends, problems, and emerging issues in Earth science data and information. Over the four days, ESIP brings together stakeholders from government agencies, industry and academic research institutions for a mix of plenary talks, breakout sessions, poster presentations, technical workshops, networking, and special events. Our breakout sessions are led by community participants and feature a broad range of Earth science data management topics related to the annual theme.

Our theme for 2027, “Trusted Science: Integrity Across Data Landscapes,” addresses a defining challenge for the Earth science data community. In an era when artificial intelligence and machine learning are rapidly transforming how we collect, process, interpret, and communicate information, the foundations of our work (our data, systems, practices, and relationships) must remain trustworthy.

This year’s theme explores “integrity” through three interconnected lenses:

Systemic Integrity: As data ecosystems grow in scale and complexity, we must strengthen the integrity of the systems that support them. This includes stewarding metadata standards, building resilient infrastructure, and designing interoperable processes that connect diverse data landscapes across domains, institutions, and communities.
Scientific Integrity: The accelerating use of AI and other emerging technologies raises new questions about transparency, reproducibility, authenticity, and accountability. How do we keep data open and FAIR while ensuring that scientific evidence remains credible, traceable, and understandable?
Ethical and Community Integrity: Trustworthy science must consider the people and communities represented in and affected by data. The CARE Principles complement FAIR by asking how data should be governed, whose interests it serves, and who has a voice in its use, advancing practices that are both technically sound and socially responsible.

Science cannot be trusted if its data, methods, and relationships are not credible. This theme is a call to strengthen integrity across the full Earth science data lifecycle: from infrastructure and analysis to authoritative governance and application. By building systems that are resilient, science that is transparent, and practices that are responsible to communities, we can deliver the critical and actionable knowledge our changing planet needs.

Join the discussions, demonstrations, and hands-on tool explorations at the next ESIP Meeting.

July 2026 Meeting highlights blog

January 2027 Meeting

When and Where

January 26-29, 2027
Online everywhere

Now accepting session proposals

Deadline is November 19.
Find more information in the call for sessions.

Call for Session Proposals

JAN27 Meeting Page

Registration Rates for JUL27

Registration will open in early November.

Rates:
Information coming soon

See the July 2026 Schedule

ESIP Meetings are usually four days long with a variety of interactive formats.

Our sessions are led by community participants and feature a broad range of Earth science topics related to the annual theme. Find session details and make your own agenda in Sched.

Agenda

Join FUNding Friday

Microfunding is an important mechanism for fresh takes and refreshing research. In the broadest sense, ESIP’s community is dedicated to solving the planet’s greatest challenges. But it is the small steps, creative ideas, and seeds that keep us rooted in actionable data. Draw, pitch, or vote in person at each July ESIP Meeting.

Microfunding

Meet our Sponsors

Our meetings are made possible through cooperative agreements with NASA, NOAA, and the USGS. But we also rely on companies and tools to help make ESIP Meetings happen.

Learn more about how to connect with people and resources in the Earth sciences.

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Where is the next ESIP Meeting?

2027 January – Virtual – Jan 26-29, 2027

2027 July – Buffalo, NY + Online – Jul 20-23, 2027

ESIP Meetings move from location to location in the United States, but we offer virtual connection all year. Our meetings have been everywhere from Asheville, NC to Tacoma, WA, from Scottsdale, AZ, to Pittsburgh, PA.

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What are ESIP Meetings like?

The ESIP community gathers twice each year: In January for a virtual meeting and in July for a hybrid, in-person meeting. We focus on Earth science and its technical challenges.

Find your people

ESIP Meetings are open to anyone interested in Earth science data, computing, and technology.

There are about 300 attendees from the Earth, space, and environmental sciences.

Dive into #EarthScienceData

Each meeting has a theme, ranging from the big-picture impacts of data to the nitty-gritty of new tools and information quality.

Many sessions are interdisciplinary and may cover specific tools or broad concepts.

Interactive session formats

Our meetings cover current trends, problems, and emerging issues in Earth science data and information. There is a mix of plenary talks, breakout sessions, poster presentations, technical workshops, networking, and special events.

ESIP meetings are open to anyone interested in Earth science data.

Many attendees are information technology professionals, teachers, and researchers. Their scientific fields include atmosphere, ocean, solid earth, ecology, data science, and social sciences.

Some attendees join monthly calls in ESIP’s Collaboration Areas.

Past Meetings

Community Calendar

What we do: Using the core schema.org vocabulary, we develop domain-specific practices for publishing and harvesting structured Earth science data.

Why we do it: To support improved search and discovery of scientific resources on the web.

Adam Shepherd (BCO-DMO) and Doug Fils (Ocean Leadership) , Cluster Co-Chairs

What we do: Host presentations and discussions focused on Information Technology and Interoperability (IT&I).

Why we do it: Connecting the nodes of Earth science data tools helps the whole community innovate.

ESIP Administrative Committee , Supported by the USGS Community for Data Integration (CDI)

“With ESIP Lab funding, we transitioned a hydrologic modal from “research grade” to cloud-based operations for watersheds on three continents.”

Eric Sproles , Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University

Absolutely thrilled I got to spend the last week with the ESIP community in Austin. ESIP remains one of the strongest enablers for interagency cooperation. I got to spend my week comparing notes with peers across USGS, NASA and NOAA on our cloud migration wins and misses, sharing lessons learned in our IT modernization efforts, and talking about what’s best and next for Earth science data and applications.

Mike Mahoney, USGS