Talks

Invited talks, conference presentations, and workshops. Slides and recordings are linked where they're public; otherwise the venues and dates are listed. ∗ denotes an invited talk.

Channels & recordings¶

YouTube channel · CyVerse webinars

2025¶

∗ The Pillars of Open Science & Artificial Intelligence — Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure (GERI) Early Career Researcher Scholar Exchange, Boulder, CO · Jul 21–25

Prompt Engineering, Vibe Coding & Agentic AI — Public Health & AI Summer School, Tucson, AZ · Jun 6–12

∗ Building an Agricultural AI workbench & toolbox in the cloud — Agri-Food Robotics Online Conference, University of Cambridge, UK · May 15–16

∗ Metadata: why metadata matters — NSF ESIIL Monthly Colloquium, Boulder, CO · May 6

∗ NSF grant proposal success — NSF CISE Early Career Investigator Workshop, Fairbanks, AK · Mar 16–21

∗ Seeing the Forest & the Trees: Bringing AI into the US's Largest National Forest — Juneau Economic Development Council Alaska Innovation Summit, Juneau, AK · Feb 25–28

∗ Fire Technology Applications — M580 Fire in Ecosystem Management, National Advanced Fire & Resource Institute, Tucson, AZ · Jan 28

Building your AI workbench & toolbox in the cloud with Jetstream2 — NSF Jetstream-2 NAIRR Fellows Program, Tucson, AZ · Jan 16 · with N. Merchant & E. Skidmore

2024¶

Hyperspectral & Thermal Remote Sensing for Environmental Justice (HYR-SENSE) Workshop: Program & Lessons Learned — AGU Fall Meeting (SY12A-05), Washington, D.C. · Dec 9–13 · with C. Amaral et al.

∗ The Pillars of Open Science & Artificial Intelligence in Research — ASCEND Fellows, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX · Oct 22

∗ The Pillars of Open Science — Machine Ground Interaction Consortium (MaGIC) Annual Meeting, Madison, WI · Sep 11

∗ Cybersecurity / Cyberinfrastructure Panel — Global Autonomous Systems Conference (GASC), Anchorage, AK · Aug 13

∗ Big Data for Spatial Datasets — Long-Term Agricultural Research (LTAR) All-Scientists Meeting, Tucson, AZ · May 23

∗ Lessons Learned: Open Science, Cyberinfrastructure & Artificial Intelligence — NSF-SCIPE Chishiki AI, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), Austin, TX · Apr 5

∗ Open Science & becoming Cloud Native — NSF-CNPq Sinbiose, Brasília, Brazil · Feb 27

∗ Open Science, Artificial Intelligence & Flying Robots — University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK · Jan 26 · with J. Gillan

∗ Building Private GPTs & LLMs for Research & Daily Productivity — CI-Compass, Long Beach, CA · Jan 17

∗ Building Your Own GPTs & LLMs for Research & Daily Productivity — Plant & Animal Genome (PAG) 31, San Diego, CA · Jan 13

2023¶

Data Access to Data Sovereignty: Overcoming Infrastructure Challenges in Indian Country — AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C. · Dec 12 · with J. Sanovia et al.

∗ Open Science & the Age of Artificial Intelligence — Texas A&M ASCEND Fellows, College Station, TX · Sep 22

∗ Cyber cowboys: wrangling big data on the open science frontier — Texas A&M Institute for Data Science Spring Seminar, College Station, TX · Apr 3

∗ Working with cloud-optimized & analysis-ready data formats on the cloud — Planet Labs × University of Arizona Kick-Off, Tucson, AZ · Feb 14 · slides · Planet Explorer

∗ A not-so-gentle introduction to Cloud Computing for Forest Resiliency Science — NSF Macrosystems Forest Resiliency Working Group, University of Colorado Boulder, CO · Feb 13 · slides · workshop

M580 Fire in Ecosystem Management — National Advanced Fire Resource Institute, Tucson, AZ · Jan 24 · slides · Awesome Fire Science

∗ Foundational Open Science Skills — Plant & Animal Genome 30, San Diego, CA · Jan 14 · slides

2022¶

The Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab (ESIIL): a next-generation NSF data synthesis center — AGU Fall Meeting (ED12C-0371), Chicago, IL · Dec 12–16 · with J. Balch et al.

∗ Introduction to Cloud Native & Analysis Ready Data Formats — Arizona Geospatial Information Council (AGIC) Meeting, Prescott, AZ · Sep 2 · with C. Lizarraga · workshop

∗ Arizona Society for Range Management: Cloud Native Science — V-V Ranch, Happy Jack, AZ · Aug 4 · handout

School of Natural Resources & the Environment Faculty Talk — University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ · slides · recording (UArizona only)

∗ CyVerse DataCite Overview — DataCite User Group, Virtual · May 4 · slides

∗ CyVerse: Cyberinfrastructure for Data-Driven Discovery — Open Source Science for the ESO Mission Processing Study — NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Virtual · Mar 4 · with E. Skidmore · slides · OSS4ESO · 5-pager (PDF)

∗ CyVerse: Cyberinfrastructure for Data-Driven Discovery — Cyberinfrastructure for Major Facilities (CI4MFs), Redondo Beach, CA · Mar 1 · YouTube · slides

2021¶

Lessons learned designing the HydroGEN machine learning platform for hydrologic exploration: a story of collaboration between hydrologic scientists, software developers, machine learning researchers & water managers — AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA · Dec 13–17 · with L. Condon et al.

TH45E: Autonomous Scientific Observations — Building Reproducible Research Today & Into the Future — AGU Town Hall, New Orleans, LA (Virtual) · Dec 8 · with P.W. Webley et al.

∗ The Airborne Environmental Observations Laboratory for Unoccupied Systems (AEOLUS) — Research Insights in Semi-Arid Ecosystems (RISE), Tucson, AZ · Oct 17

∗ Developing Foundational Open Science Skills (CyVerse Skills Tutorial) — Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing & Cyber Systems, Virtual · Apr 5

CyVerse × NEON-AOP Workshop (2020–2021) — website · YouTube playlist

Fireside Chat with Joe Buck in Nature — website · YouTube

2020¶

TH058: Methods & Processes Using Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Sharing & Reusing Lessons Learned Across Scientific Disciplines — AGU Fall Meeting · with P.W. Webley et al.

NH028-0007 Wrestling the four V's of small unoccupied aerial systems data in the cloud & on national cyberinfrastructure — AGU Fall Meeting · with D. LeBauer, C.F. Vardeman & D. Durden

∗ Panel: Simplifying HPC Workflows with containers — NVIDIA GPU Cloud, Virtual · Dec 3

Predicting phenotype from multi-scale genomic & environment data using neural networks & knowledge graphs — ESA Annual Meeting · Aug 3–6 · with A.E. Thessen et al.

∗ CyVerse Learning Institute's Foundational Open Science Skills workshop — Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC), Virtual · Jul 20 · YouTube

CyVerse: Informatics Cyberinfrastructure for the Earth Sciences — Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Summer Meeting, Virtual · Jul 2 · with E. Skidmore et al.

Predicting Phenotype from Multi-Scale Genomic & Environment Data using Neural Networks & Knowledge Graphs: An Introduction to the NSF GenoPhenoEnvo Project — Plant & Animal Genome XXVIII · Jan 11–15 · with A.E. Thessen et al.

The Airborne Environmental Observations Laboratory for Unoccupied Systems (AEOLUS) — Plant & Animal Genome XXVIII · Jan 11–15

2019¶

GC23G-1430 Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Measurements? A Comparison of Drone Systems & Data Processing Methods for Rangeland Vegetation Monitoring — AGU Fall Meeting · with C. Holifield-Collins et al.

All the Things: Capitalizing on Big Data from Devices, Drones & Cubesats — Arizona Geospatial Information Council Symposia, Prescott, AZ · Oct 1

Looking toward an Institute to support both users & creators of geospatial software — Geospatial Software Institute Workshop 3 · Jul 15 · with D.S. LeBauer & N. Merchant

∗ The ability & audacity to scale your science with free & open cyberinfrastructure — Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM · Jul 5

Get a Grip on Your Data Science Tools with CyVerse VICE (Visual Interactive Computing Environment) — Plant & Animal Genome XXVII · Jan 12–16 · with U.K. Devisetty et al.

2018¶

H21A-06 Multi-disciplinary Insights into the Effects of Vegetation Change on Hydrologic Partitioning — AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C. · Dec 11 · with P.D. Brooks et al.

∗ The problem of pattern & scale in semi-arid ecosystem ecology: Does big data help or hurt? — Research Insights in Semi-Arid Ecosystems (RISE), Tucson, AZ · Oct 10

Ensuring best practices for reproducibility of long-tail data in intensive geospatial scientific research — Geospatial Software Institute Workshop 2 · Jul 17 · with B. Hickson, B. Joyce & R. Walls

∗ Vertical Scaling of Remote Sensing — Invited talk, Battelle Inc. / NEON, Boulder, CO · Jul 12

The Ecosystem Moisture Stress Index — Madrean Conference, Tucson, AZ · May 17

Unleashing your inner data scientist: The ability & audacity to scale your science with free & open cyberinfrastructure — TRIPODS-X Workshop, Tucson, AZ · Feb 26

Portable, scalable, high-throughput geospatial analyses with Singularity containers on cloud & high-performance computing — Phenome, Tucson, AZ · Feb 15

Cyberinfrastructure for scientific reproducibility in data-intensive geospatial research & education — Geospatial Software Institute Workshop 1 · Jan 29

2017¶

CyVerse: A Ten-Year Perspective on Cyberinfrastructure Development, Collaboration & Community Building — AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA · Dec 11 · with R. Walls, U.K. Devisetty & N.C. Merchant · NSF PAR

Analyzing & managing ecological data with CyVerse — Ecological Society of America Meeting, Portland, OR · Aug 10 · with R. Walls, B. Joyce & U.K. Devisetty

A Gentle Introduction to Forestry Science Workflows in the Era of Cloud Computing — Society of American Foresters, Southwestern Section / Northern Arizona Chapter Meeting, Flagstaff, AZ · Apr 27–29

∗ CyVerse: Transforming science through data-driven discovery — Northern Arizona University, School of Forestry, Flagstaff, AZ · Apr 5

∗ Cyber-Cowboys on the Range — Invited seminar, Santa Rita Experimental Range (Florida Station), Green Valley, AZ · Mar 18