1. Initiative in Environmental Data Science
Team: Steve Shaw, Hyatt Green, Mary Collins, James Gibbs, Colin Beier, Lindi Quackenbush, Tim Morin, Chuck Kroll, Jim Sahm, Bahram Salehi, Brian Leydet

2. Motivation:
Emergence of new technologies to collect and process data

4. National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
Source:

5. Mesonet (Univ. at Albany)
Jefferson Project Lake Monitoring (RPI, IBM)

6. ESF needs to
be part of this
transformation

7. Elements of Initiative

8. A focus on college-wide capacity building
1. New and innovative curriculum for students: undergrad, graduate, and professional
2. External training to develop new skill sets in faculty and staff
3. Partnership building with industry, state government, and regional academic institutions
4. Incentivizing novel and impactful research
5. Developing a strategy for enhancing research computing
A focus on college-wide capacity building

9. How is it sustained? Multi-pronged approach:
• training grants from NSF and NIH
• growing student programs (especially at
professional level)
• new capacity for serving state government
• new funded research grants

10. Big-Tent Approach
Ground-Up Approach

11. Strategic Planning Process goals and subgoals addressed:
SPP Goal 1: Enrich academic excellence in both undergraduate and graduate education.
Expand student, staff and faculty knowledge of techniques and processes associated with existing and new technologies, including digital communications and literacy.
SPP Goal 2: Provide an outstanding student experience.
Expand interdisciplinary research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.
SPP Goal 5: Strategically build and enhance partnerships and
collaborative relationships
SPP Goal 6: Respond to the needs of society.
Reconfigure existing programs to be most relevant to the needs of society.
Enhance and develop new areas of research.