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class="container"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="">Earth and Space Science Informatics</h1> </div> </header> <div id="content-wrapper" class="container"> <div id="content"> <div class="post-wrapper blog-masonry"> <article class="post-loop post-246 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2018/09/04/research-software-engineers-from-the-geosciences-assemble-for-the-first-time-at-egu-general-assembly-2018/" title="Research Software Engineers from the Geosciences assemble for the first time at EGU General Assembly 2018" target="">Research Software Engineers from the Geosciences assemble for the first time at EGU General Assembly 2018</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/author/guest/" title="Posts by Daniel Nüst" rel="author">Daniel Nüst</a></span> <span class="meta-date">September 4, 2018</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2018/09/04/research-software-engineers-from-the-geosciences-assemble-for-the-first-time-at-egu-general-assembly-2018/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/files/2018/08/Slide1-700x400.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/files/2018/08/Slide1-1400x800.jpg" width="700" height="400" alt="Research Software Engineers from the Geosciences assemble for the first time at EGU General Assembly 2018" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>On April 12th 2018, the first Research Software Engineers (RSEs) for geosciences meeting was held at the European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly (GA) in Vienna, Austria. The EGU GA is a huge event with over 15.000 people from more than 100 countries. It has a diverse programme with thousands of posters and hundreds of sessions, but what it lacked was an event to bring together scientists ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2018/09/04/research-software-engineers-from-the-geosciences-assemble-for-the-first-time-at-egu-general-assembly-2018/" class="read-more more-link" title="Research Software Engineers from the Geosciences assemble for the first time at EGU General Assembly 2018">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-242 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2018/01/08/good-practice-in-the-evaluation-of-researchers/" title="Good practice in the evaluation of researchers" target="">Good practice in the evaluation of researchers</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/author/guest/" title="Posts by Christoph Stasch, ESSI ECS representative" rel="author">Christoph Stasch, ESSI ECS representative</a></span> <span class="meta-date">January 8, 2018</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="entry-content"> <p>A new statement on good practice in the evaluation of researchers and research programmes has been posted by three national academies (Académie des Sciences, Leopoldina and Royal Society). It states that “the use of bibliometric indicators for early career scientists must in particular be avoided. Such use will tend to push scientists who are building their career into wellestablished/fashio ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2018/01/08/good-practice-in-the-evaluation-of-researchers/" class="read-more more-link" title="Good practice in the evaluation of researchers">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-237 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2017/10/16/strengthening-early-career-scientists-ecs-in-egu-essi/" title="Strengthening Early Career Scientists (ECS) in EGU ESSI" target="">Strengthening Early Career Scientists (ECS) in EGU ESSI</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/author/guest/" title="Posts by Christoph Stasch, ESSI ECS representative" rel="author">Christoph Stasch, ESSI ECS representative</a></span> <span class="meta-date">October 16, 2017</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2017/10/16/strengthening-early-career-scientists-ecs-in-egu-essi/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/files/2017/10/stefan-stefancik-257625-700x400.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/files/2017/10/stefan-stefancik-257625-1400x800.jpg" width="700" height="400" alt="Strengthening Early Career Scientists (ECS) in EGU ESSI" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> <div class="featured_caption">Photo by Štefan Štefančík on Unsplash</div> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The number of presentations from ECS in the ESSI sessions has been low during recent EGU General Assemblies. We are hence currently trying to get greater involvement and recognition for the ECS in the ESSI Division. How to get involved as ECS in the ESSI division? Join the ESSI ECS mailing list We have a dedicated ESSI ECS mailing list that can be used for discussion between the ESSI ECSs. It is a ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2017/10/16/strengthening-early-career-scientists-ecs-in-egu-essi/" class="read-more more-link" title="Strengthening Early Career Scientists (ECS) in EGU ESSI">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-226 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2017/07/26/pico-in-the-picture/" title="PICO in the picture" target="">PICO in the picture</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/author/guest/" title="Posts by Christopher Kadow" rel="author">Christopher Kadow</a></span> <span class="meta-date">July 26, 2017</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="entry-content"> <p>Like everyone else, in the beginning I was skeptical of the newly introduced presentation format at the EGU – the PICO sessions. PICO stands for Presenting Interactive Content. Half talk, half poster – this is a new design that demands a completely new and unfamiliar preparation of the presenter, and yes admittedly at first this meant additional work. However, already during the creation of my fir ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2017/07/26/pico-in-the-picture/" class="read-more more-link" title="PICO in the picture">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-223 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2017/05/24/new-ecs-representative/" title="New ECS representative!" target="">New ECS representative!</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/author/roelens/" title="Posts by Jennifer Roelens" class="author url fn" rel="author">Jennifer Roelens</a></span> <span class="meta-date">May 24, 2017</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="entry-content"> <p>At the EGU ESSI division meeting, Christoph Stasch was elected as the new representative of the early career scientists in the ESSI division following Jennifer Roelens. Christoph works as research associate and consultant at 52°North, a non-profit research organisation in the field of applied geoinformatics. His focus is on simplifying the integration of sensors and processing modules (e.g. enviro ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2017/05/24/new-ecs-representative/" class="read-more more-link" title="New ECS representative!">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-212 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2016/11/16/happy-gisday/" title="Happy GISday!!" target="">Happy GISday!!</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/author/roelens/" title="Posts by Jennifer Roelens" class="author url fn" rel="author">Jennifer Roelens</a></span> <span class="meta-date">November 16, 2016</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="entry-content"> <p>As many people within the ESSI division have at least once used GIS software, we would like to wish you a happy GIS day!   Every day, millions of decisions are being powered by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for education, government, non-profit organizations and businesses. ESSI deals with community-driven and multidisciplinary challenges. GIS plays an important role to develop data-dr ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2016/11/16/happy-gisday/" class="read-more more-link" title="Happy GISday!!">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-206 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2016/09/01/boon-of-big-data-for-geoscience-investigations/" title="Boon of big data for geoscience investigations" target="">Boon of big data for geoscience investigations</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/author/chernov/" title="Posts by Anatolii Chernov" class="author url fn" rel="author">Anatolii Chernov</a></span> <span class="meta-date">September 1, 2016</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="entry-content"> <p>The amount of digital data per person is rising with a geometric progression since 2009. According to the latest report of Oyster IMS, the digital universe will grow by a factor of 300 between 2005 and 2020: from 130 Exabytes to 40,000 Exabytes, or 40 trillion gigabytes (more than 5,200 gigabytes for every person in 2020). Earth sciences is one of the domains where huge volumes of data are collect ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2016/09/01/boon-of-big-data-for-geoscience-investigations/" class="read-more more-link" title="Boon of big data for geoscience investigations">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-18 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2016/07/11/big-earth-science-data-boon-or-bane/" title="Big Earth Science Data – Boon or bane?" target="">Big Earth Science Data – Boon or bane?</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/author/wagemann/" title="Posts by Julia Wagemann" class="author url fn" rel="author">Julia Wagemann</a></span> <span class="meta-date">July 11, 2016</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2016/07/11/big-earth-science-data-boon-or-bane/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/files/2016/07/wordle-700x315.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/files/2016/07/wordle-1400x629.jpg" width="700" height="315" alt="Big Earth Science Data – Boon or bane?" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>We are in the era of Big Data. Big Data is a ‘hot’ topic. It is a popular term often associated with an increase in volume, variety and velocity of data. The Copernicus programme for example, the European Union’s flagship programme on monitoring the Earth’s environment using satellite and in-situ observations, anticipates a massive increase in satellite data volume. It is estimated tha ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/essi/2016/07/11/big-earth-science-data-boon-or-bane/" class="read-more more-link" title="Big Earth Science Data – Boon or bane?">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> </div> </div> <aside id="sidebar"> <div id="text-2" class="widget widget_text"><h3 class="widgettitle">About</h3> <div class="textwidget">Welcome to the <a href="/divisions/essi/about/">blog</a> of the <a href=" https://www.egu.eu/essi/"> Earth & Space Science Informatics (ESSI) Division </a> of the <a href="http://www.egu.eu">European Geosciences Union</a> (EGU). 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