ESIIL Innovation Summit 2024 Application

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The 2024 ESIIL Innovation Summit will be held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, from May 14-16, 2024 and focus on the theme of Big Data for Environmental Resilience and Adaptation.

The Summit will offer an opportunity to use big data to understand resilience across genes, species, ecosystems and societies, advance ecological forecasting with solutions in mind, and inform adaptive management and natural climate solutions. It will be an in-person ‘unconference’, enabling participants to dynamically work on themes that most inspire them, with inclusive physical and intellectual spaces for working together. Over two and a half days, participants will work in teams to explore research questions using open science approaches, including: data infrastructure, artificial intelligence (AI) and novel analytics, and cloud computing. Participants will be encouraged to work across and respect different perspectives, with the aim of co-developing resilience solutions. ESIIL will provide participants with opportunities to learn more about cultural intelligence, ethical and open science practices, and leadership in the rapidly evolving field of environmental data science. Overall, the Summit will capitalize on the combination of open data and analytics opportunities to develop innovative or impactful approaches that improve environmental resilience and adaptation.

The goals of the Summit are to: (1) Explore big data for environmental resilience and adaptation by identifying data synthesis opportunities and utilizing ESIIL cloud-compute capabilities; (2) Promote best practices in ethical, open science, by supporting accessibility and usability of environmental data by all stakeholders; (3) Support diverse and inclusive teams by establishing collaborations around data-inspired themes across different disciplines, sectors, career stages, and backgrounds; and (4) Encourage the co-production of environmental knowledge with communities that are experiencing significant environmental challenges.

Who should apply? The Summit seeks to bring together participants who are interested in exploring the potential of big data to increase our understanding of environmental adaptation and resilience by identifying data synthesis opportunities, exploring ESIIL CI capabilities, and cultivating innovative ideas by building diverse and inclusive teams. Participants from a range of different sectors, disciplinary expertise, career stage and experience are encouraged to apply.

Applications are due January 26, 2024. Successful applicants will be invited to attend after a selection process and will need to confirm their attendance within a week of receiving the invitation. There is no registration fee for accepted participants to attend the Summit or associated trainings and workshops. A limited number of travel awards are available to help defray airfare/mileage and accommodation costs.

If you have additional questions, please contact us at esiil[at]colorado.edu. For more information about ESIIL and the Innovation Summit, please visit our website: esiil.org.

First Name *

Last Name *

Email address *

Please describe why you are interested in attending the ESIIL Innovation Summit. *

The theme for this year's Summit is 'Big Data for Environmental Adaptation and Resilience'. Are there particular areas of research within this theme you are interested in exploring with other participants? *

Please select the type(s) of data you are interested in exploring as part of the Summit theme: *

Observatory data (e.g., NEON, LTER, LTAR, CZN)

Social data (e.g., text mining, qualitative interviews, government records)

Remote sensing data (e.g., drone-based data, airborne lidar and hyperspectral data, and satellite data)

Modeled or synthetic data (e.g., AI generated data, model simulations)

Collections (e.g., biorepositories, gene banks, museum collections)

Protected data (e.g., cultural data stories, traditional ecological knowledge, health data)

In situ measurements (e.g., field inventories, micro-sensors, genetic data, flux towers)

I do not work with data

Other:

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What data opportunities do you foresee to work on this research theme (e.g., exciting datasets that you want to work on, combinations of data that offer new opportunities to ask questions, new analytics applied to synthesized data, data sovereignty issues, or other)? *

ESIIL is committed to creating an inclusive, positive environment that welcomes diverse perspectives. How will you contribute to this goal? *

Are you currently partnering or collaborating with communities significantly impacted by environmental change/challenges? If yes, please describe. If you don’t currently have partnerships, which communities or organizations would you like to collaborate with in the future that may benefit from the environmental data science you hope to pursue?
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Would you be willing to attend a 1-2 hour virtual brainstorming session ahead of the Innovation Summit to discuss potential breakout group topics? *

Yes

Maybe, depending on the timing

No, I'm not interested or don't have the time to attend a brainstorming session

Would you be interested in attending a virtual environmental data skills training prior to the Summit? *

Yes

Maybe

No, I'm not interested or don't have the time to attend this training

Would you be interested in attending a Leadership in Environmental Data Science Training? This program aims to help foster leadership skills in environmental data science domains and in team science.

Yes

Maybe, depending on timing

No, I'm not interested or don't have the time to attend this training

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