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NSIDC at AGU Annual Meeting 2023

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Several representatives from NSIDC will be attending the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting 2023, either virtually, or in-person in San Francisco, in order to share their expertise in data management and research in the cryospheric sciences and connect with other Earth science professionals. NSIDC is involved in several sessions including presentations, posters, workshops and other discussions.

See below for a full list of events in which NSIDC staff is featured. NSIDC staff are listed in bold typeface under the Participants section.

Sunday, December 10

Cloud session

Cloud Computing and Open-Source Scientific Software for Cryosphere Communities

Session ID: SCIWS15

Participants: Tasha Snow, Amy Steiker, Tyler C Sutterley, Ian R Joughin, Ellianna Abrahams, Sophie A Goliber, Matthew Siegfried and Jonathan Kingslake

Location: 3006 - West (Level 3, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Workshop

Time: 8:00-15:00 PST / 9:00-16:00 MST

 

cloud analysis

Enabling Analysis in the Cloud Using NASA Earth Science Data

Session ID: SCIWS23 

Participants: Brianna M M Lind, Catalina M Oaida Taglialatela, Cassandra Nickles, Aaron M Friesz, Alexis Hunzinger, Michele Thornton, Daniel Kaufman, Mahsa Jami, Luis Alberto Lopez, Celia Ou, Alex Lewandowski, Chris Battisto, Andrew Barrett, Jessica Nicole Nicole Welch, Jack James McNelis, Brianna Rita Pagán, Sargent Shriver, Amy E Steiker, Makhan Virdi, Erin Robinson, Stefanie Butland and Julia S. Stewart Lowndes

Location: 3022 - West (Level 3, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Workshop 

Time: 13:00 - 16:30 PST / 14:00-17:30 MST 

 


Monday, December 11

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Enabling Cryospheric Science at the NASA NSIDC DAAC Through Open, FAIR and TRUSTed Practices

Session ID: C11C-1060

ParticipantsAmanda Leon, Kathryn Heightley, Chris Bond, Shannon Leslie, Walt Meier, Donna Scott, Amy Steiker 

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster

Time: 8:30-12:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

openaltimetry

Using OpenAltimetry

Participant: Mikala Beig

Location: Demo Area, Demo Kiosk 2

Session Type: Demo

Time: 16:00 - 17:00  PST / 17:00 - 18:00  MST

 

 

glacier

 

Observations and Models of Glacier Change 

Session ID: C11F

Participants: Brian Menounos, Alex Gardner, Bruce Raup, Lauren Vargo

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster

Time: 8:30-14:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

GLIMS glacier viewer screenshot

 

GLIMS Now Tracks Extinct Glaciers

Session ID: C11F-1111 

ParticipantsBruce Raup

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster

Time: 8:30-12:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

seasat rendering

Seasat-A Scatterometer (SASS) and NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) Enhanced-Resolution Radar Backscatter Image Products for Retrospective Analyses

Session ID: C11C-1053 

ParticipantsMolly Hardman, David Long, Mary J. Brodzik, Julie Miller 

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster

Time: 8:30-12:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

CETB

 

Significant Reprocessing of Calibrated, Enhanced-Resolution Brightness Temperatures (CETBs) to Improve Cryospheric Applications

Session ID: C11C-1054

ParticipantsMolly Hardman, David Long, Mary J. Brodzik, Julie Miller, Joan Ramage, Mahboubeh Boueshagh, Walt Meier, J Scott Stewart

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster

Time: 8:30-12:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

GIS screensot

 

Measuring the Impacts of Interactive Environments and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) on Student Learning of Polar Places and Spaces.

Session ID: ED11C-0786

Participants: Emily Ward, Anne Gold, Twila Moon, Alia Khan, Spruce Schoenemann, Matt Olson, Laura Thomson, Al Werner 

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster

Time: 8:30-12:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

Scientists above firn aquifer

 

Mapping the Extent and Physical Characteristics of an Expansive Perennial Firn Aquifer in the Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula, using the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission

Session ID: H12E-04

Participants: Julie Miller, David Long, Christopher Shuman, Joel Johnson, Andreas Colliander, Mary J. Brodzik, Riley Culberg, Kenneth Jezek, Marco Brogioni, Alamgir Hossan, Ted Scambos

Location: 3016 - West (Level 3, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 10:50-11:00 PST / 11:50-12:00 MST

 

glacier

Observations and Models of Glacier Change II eLightning

Session ID: C14C 

Participants:  Brian Menounos, Alex Gardner, Bruce Raup, Lauren Vargo

Location: eLightning Theater III, Hall D - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: eLightning 

Time: 16:00-17:30 PST / 17:00-18:30 MST

 


Tuesday, December 12

glacier

Observations and Models of Glacier Change III Oral

Session ID: C21B 

Participants: Brian Menounos, Alex Gardner, Bruce Raup, Lauren Vargo

Location: 2004 - West (Level 2, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 8:30-10:00 PST / 9:30-11:00 MST

 

Indigenous peoples

Collaborative Data Management with Indigenous Partners: Reflections from the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA

Session ID: SY21B-0812 

Participants: Natasha Haycock-Chavez, Joshua Brown, Matthew Druckenmiller, Susan Ziegler, Finn Danielsen, Gary Holton, Emma J. Harrison, Alexandra Ravelo, Eric Oliver, Noor Johnson, Donna Hauser, Malu Castro, Krista Heeringa, Roberta Glenn, Betsy Sheffield, Lisa Sheffield Guy

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster

Time: 8:30-12:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

greenland

Seasonal Spikes in Greenland Ice Sheet Terminus Ablation Driven by Rapid Terminus Retreat

Session ID: C21F-1302

Participants: Aman KC, Ellyn Enderlin, Dominik Fahrner, Twila Moon, Dustin Carroll 

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster

Time: 8:30-12:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

MATLAB

Accessing NASA Earthdata in the Cloud: Experiences Using MATLAB on NASA Openspaces’ 2i2c JupyterHub 

Session ID: IN21A-02

Participants: Lisa Kempler, Luis Alberto Lopez, Yixin Wen, Peter Cornillon, Julia Stewart Lowndes, Erin Robinson

Location: 2014 - West (Level 2, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 8:40-8:50 PST / 9:40-9:50 MST

 

Above

Results from the ABoVE Permafrost Dynamics Observatory: What Remote Sensing Big Data Tells Us about the Dynamic Active Layer, Soil Moisture, and Greening and Browning

Session ID: B21D-05

Participants: Elizabeth Wig, Kevin Schaefer, Brittany Fager, Howard Zebker, Roger Michaelides, Lingcao Huang, Richard Chen, Yingtong Zhang, Curtis Woodcock

Location: 3006 - West (Level 3, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 9:10-9:20 PST / 10:10-10:20 MST

 

glacier change

Observations and Models of Glacier Change IV Oral

Session ID: C22B 

Participants: Brian Menounos, Alex Gardner, Bruce Raup, Lauren Vargo

Location:  2004 - West (Level 2, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 10:20-11:50 PST / 11:20-12:50 MST

 

sea ice concentration

Toward Open Science Sea Ice Concentration from Passive Microwave Observations with "pm_icecon"

Session ID: C22A-04 

ParticipantsJ Scott Stewart, Walt Meier 

Location: 2005 - West (Level 2, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 10:50-11:00 PST / 11:50-12:00 MST

 

qgreenland

QGreenland & CryoCloud: An open GIS collaboration for education and research

Session ID: C22A-07

ParticipantsMatt Fisher, Twila Moon, Alyse Thurber, Tasha Snow, Trey Stafford 

Location: 2005 - West (Level 2, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 11:20-11:30 PST / 12:20-12:30 MST

 

CryoCloud

CryoCloud JupyterHub for NASA Cryosphere communities: Open science in the cloud as a process, not a product (Invited)

Session ID: U24B-03

Participants: Tasha Snow, Joanna Millstein, Jessica Scheick, James Colliander, Fernando Perez, Tyler Sutterley, Facundo Sapienza, Whyjay Zheng, Wilson Sauthoff, Wei Ji Leong, James Munroe, Denis Felikson, Matthew Fisher, Ellianna Abrahams, Matthew Siegfried

Location: 3018 - West (Level 3, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 16:45-17:25 PST / 17:45-18:25 MST

 


Wednesday, December 13

satellites

30 Years of Satellite and Airborne Altimetry Data at NSIDC DAAC

Session ID: C31C-1350 

ParticipantsLisa Kaser, Amanda Leon, Mikala Beig, Luis Alberto Lopez, Walt Meier, Amy Steiker 

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster

Time: 8:30-12:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

earthaccess

earthaccess: An Open Science Story of Collaboration in Support of the NASA Earthdata User Community

Participant: Luis Lopez

Location: Demo Area, Demo Kiosk 2

Session Type: Demo

Time: 12:00 - 13:00  PST / 13:00 - 14:00  MST

 

 

netcdft

NSIDC’s Consolidated NetCDF Attribute Guidelines: Curated To Help Data Producers Achieve CF Compliance Now and Into the Future

Session ID: IN31C-0666 

ParticipantsAmy FitzGerrell, Donna Scott, J Scott Stewart 

Location:  Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster

Time: 8:30-12:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

tundra fire

Recovery of Alaskan Tundra Post-Fire in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

Session ID: B31B-06

Participants: Leah Clayton, Xuhui Lee, Kevin Schaefer

Location: 3006 - West (Level 3, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 9:20-9:30 PST / 10:20-10:30 MST

 

above

From Field to Air: Integrating Field Data in Support of the ABoVE Airborne Campaign

Session ID: B31B-08

Participants: Miles Moore, Elizabeth Embury Hoy, Peter Griffith, Kevin Schaefer, Laura Bourgeau-Chavez

Location: 3006 - West (Level 3, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 9:40-9:50 PST / 10:40-10:50 MST

 

polar explorer

Polar Explorer: A place-based virtual learning environment for STEM undergraduate education

Session ID: ED31A-09 

Participants: Deborah Huntzinger, Chris Mead, Geoffrey Bruce, Kevin Schaefer, Michelle Mack, Wendy Taylor, Lisa Thompson, Victor O Leshyk, Ariel Anbar

Location: 203 - South (Level 2, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 9:42-9:51 PST / 10:42-10:51 MST

 

sea ice

Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: Sea Ice

Session ID: C32B 

ParticipantsWalt Meier, Randall Scharien, Sahra Kacimi

Location: 2003 - West (Level 2, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 10:20-11:50 PST / 11:20-12:50 MST

 

snowmap

Advancing domestic and international water management capabilities with a global daily snow cover and albedo product

Session ID: H32B-04 

Participants: Karl Rittger, Mark S Raleigh, Sebastien Lenard, Edward Bair, Keith N Musselman, McKenzie Skiles, Mary J. BrodzikMark C Serreze, Ross Palomaki, Patrick Naple, Otto Ian Lang, Thomas H Painter, Patrick Kormos, Michelle Stokes, David Casson, Martyn P Clark, Jonathan P Conway, Sean Fleming and Alice Hill

Location: 3020 - West (Level 3, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 10:55-11:05 PST / 11:55-12:05 MST

 

permafrost

Climate influences on Terrestrial Mercury Pathways

Session ID: B32D-06 

ParticipantsKevin Schaefer, Christine Olson, Benjamin M Geyman, David Streets, Elsie Sunderland, Colin Thackray

Location: 3009 - West (Level 3, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 11:10-11:20 PST / 12:10-12:20 MST

 

permafrost

Modeling the Fate of Mercury in Warming Permafrost Soils

Session ID: B32D-07 

Participants:  Kevin Schaefer, Christine Olson, Benjamin M Geyman, David Streets, Elsie Sunderland, Colin Thackray

Location: 3009 - West (Level 3, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 11:20-11:30 PST / 12:20-12:30 MST

 


Thursday, December 14

satellite

Putting Principle into Practice: Implementations and Challenges of Evolving Data Stewardship Over Three Decades at the NASA NSIDC DAAC

Session ID: IN41B-0584 

ParticipantsShannon Leslie, Candida Dewes, Mike Sutherland, Amy FitzGerrell, Kara Gergely, Cathy Fowler, Siri Jodha S Khalsa, Amanda Leon

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster

Time: 8:30-12:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

sea ice

Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: Sea Ice II 

Session ID: C41E 

Participants: Walt Meier, Randall Scharien, Sahra Kacimi 

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster 

Time: 8:30-12:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

heat flux

A Comparison of the Accumulated Net Surface Heat Flux from Three Reanalyses Across the Arctic Ocean 

Session ID: C41C-1517

Participants: Meghan Helmberger, Mark Serreze 

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster 

Time: 8:30-12:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

sea ioe motion

Enhancing the NSIDC sea ice motion and age products for an improved long-term climate record of sea ice change

Session ID: C41E-1561

ParticipantsWalt Meier, J Scott Stewart, Mark Tschudi 

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster

Time: 8:30-12:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

sea ice outlook

Forecast Skill of the Arctic Sea Ice Outlook over 2008 - 2022: How Good are Sea Ice Forecasts, and How Can They Get Better?

Session ID: C41D-1538 

Participants:  Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, Mitchell Bushuk, Francois Massonnet, Lawrence Hamilton, Cecilia Bitz, Walt Meier, Uma Suren Bhatt 

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster

Time: 8:30-12:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

langranian

Lagrangian Tracking of Arctic Sea Ice and Associated Properties

Session ID: C41E-1562

Participants:  Walt Meier, J Scott Stewart, Mark Tschudi 

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster

Time:  8:30-12:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

air quality

Multidimensional Data Aggregation in the Cloud with Application to Geostationary Satellite-based Air Quality Monitoring

Session ID: IN42B-01 

Participants: Daniel Edward Kaufman, Hazem Mahmoud, Luis Alberto Lopez, Walter Baskin

Location: 2014 - West (Level 2, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time:  10:22-10:32 PST / 11:22-11:32 MST

 

sentinel1

Segmentation of Sea Ice in Sentinel-1 SAR with Atrous Convolutions

Session ID: C43E-03 

Participants:  Morteza Karimzadeh, Rafael Pires de Lima, Behzad Vahedi, Nick Hughes, Andrew Barrett, Walt Meier

Location: eLightning Theater II, Hall D - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: eLightning

Time: 14:16-14:19 PST / 15:16-15:19 MST

 

LEO network

 

Bridging Local Observations and Meteorology: Insights from the LEO Network

Session ID: NH43C-0820

Participants: Taylor O’Brien, Mark Serreze, Elizabeth Cassano 

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster 

Time: 14:10-18:30 PST / 15:10-19:30 MST

 

snow melt in Alaska

Leveraging Passive Microwave Calibrated, Enhanced-Resolution Brightness Temperatures (CETB) for Automated Snowmelt Detection in Alaska Watersheds

Session ID: C44B-04 

Participants: Mahboubeh Boueshagh, Joan Ramage, Mary J. Brodzik, Vicki Jagdeo

Location: 2004 - West (Level 2, West, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 16:30-16:40 PST / 17:30-17:40 MST

 


Friday, December 15

 

snowex

Supporting Snow Research: SnowEx Data and Services at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC

Session ID: C51G-1026 

Participants:  Stephanie Wong, Amanda Leon

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster

Time: 8:30-12:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

Noaa sea ice

 

Observational Continuity of Sea Ice Concentration through the NOAA Climate Data Record Program

Session ID: SY51D-0608 

Participants:  Ann Windnagel, J Scott Stewart, Trey Stafford, Walt Meier, Florence Fetterer

Location: Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Poster

Time: 8:30-12:50 PST / 9:30-13:50 MST

 

 

openscapes

NASA Openscapes approaches and stories of kinder, open science in the Cloud

Session ID: SH51A-04 

Participants:  Julia Stewart Lowndes, Erin Robinson, Amy Steiker, Aaron Friesz, Catalina M Oaida Taglialatela, Brianna Rita Pagan, Cassandra Nickles, Michele Thornton, Alex Lewandowski, Brianna M M Lind, Luis Alberto Lopez, Celia Ou, Alexis Hunzinger, Mahsa Jami, Jessica Nicole Welch, Makhan Virdi, Sargent Shriver

Location: 211 - South (Level 2, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 9:00-9:10 PST / 10:00-10:10 MST

 

cryocloud

Accelerating scientific discovery for NASA Cryosphere communities with the CryoCloud JupyterHub (Invited)

Session ID: SH51A-06

Participants: Tasha Snow, Joanna Millstein, Jessica Scheick, James Colliander, Fernando Perez, Tyler Sutterley, Facundo Sapienza, Whyjay Zheng, Wilson Sauthoff, Wei Ji Leong, James Munroe, Denis Felikson, Matthew Fisher, Ellianna Abrahams, Matthew Siegfried

Location: 211 - South (Level 2, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 9:20-9:30 PST / 10:20-10:30 MST

 

idea

Advancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) in the Polar Sciences by USAPECS

Session ID: ED51A-07 

Participants: Lavanya Ashokkumar, Zachary Labe, Mohammad Afzal Shadab, Olga Lauter, Erika Amber Patin Schreiber 

Location: 203 - South (Level 2, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 9:28-9:37 PST / 10:28-10:37 MST

 

nna

Towards an “Arctic Together”: Supporting an Inclusive and Diverse Community through the Navigating the New Arctic Community Office

Session ID: ED51A-08

Participants: Noor Johnson, Nikoosh Carlo, James Temte, Anne Gold, Twila Moon, Alison Gregory, Katie Spellman, Elena Sparrow, Matthew Druckenmiller 

Location: 203 - South (Level 2, South, Moscone Center)

Session Type: Oral

Time: 9:37-9:46 PST / 10:37-10:46 MST

 

interagency

Developing Indicators of Global Change Through Interagency Collaboration

Session ID: TH53M

Participants: Diane Stanitski, Reuben Tochukwu Aniekwu, Yishen Li, Barry L Lefer, Michael Kolian, Melissa M Yang, Walt Meier

Location: 2007 - West (Level 2, West, MC)

Session Type: Town Hall

Time: 13:00 -14:00 PST / 14:00 -15:00 MST