The CDI has provided funding support for many products and activities. Through the annual CDI proposal process, funds have been awarded for projects focusing on data integration for interdisciplinary research, innovative data management, and potentially cutting edge technology. The CDI supports new and ongoing projects that promote data integration and:
Eligibility:
Any USGS Mission Area, Program, Center, Office or duty station and their partner(s) are encouraged to apply. However, all proposals must have a USGS employee as a principal investigator.
Past funded project descriptions and outputs can be found on our ScienceBase page and in our reports.
View CDI Funded Projects from 2010 - Present
FY2017 CDI Funded Project Report
FY2018 CDI Funded Project Report
View the following pages to learn about specific requirements for this year and past years.
*Projects occurring in multiple years
Links go to the ScienceBase project page.
Building a framework to compute continuous grids of basin characteristics for the conterminous United States – Barnhart, Theodore
So you want to build a decision support tool? Assessing successes, pitfalls, and lessons learned for tool design and development – Cravens, Amanda
Using Jupyter Notebooks to tell data stories and create reproducible workflows – Erickson, Richard
USGS Cloud Environment Cookbook – Fox, Aaron
Enabling AI for citizen science in fish ecology – Hitt, Nathaniel
Implementing FAIR practices: Storing and displaying eDNA data in the USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species database – Hunter, Margaret
Developing a "fire-aware" stream gage network by integrating USGS enterprise databases – Kolb, Katharine
Waterbody Rapid Assessment Tool (WaterRAT): 3-dimensional Visualization of High-Resolution Spatial Data – Medenblik, Andrea
Development of a Flexible Multi-Channel Spatiotemporal Geophysical HDF5 Data Format Supporting FAIR – Peacock, Jared
Real-time Coastal Salinity Index for monitoring coastal drought and ecological response to changing salinity values – Petkewich, Matthew
Moving towards EarthMAP: Establishing linkages among USGS land use, water use, runoff, and recharge models – Sohl, Terry
Research to Operations: Ensemble Modeling at Hillslope to Regional Scales – Webb, Richard
Using machine learning to map topographic-soil & densely-patterned sub-surface agricultural drainage (tile drains) from satellite imagery – Williamson, Tanja
Open-source and open-workflow Climate Scenarios Toolbox for adaptation planning – Bamzai, Aparna
Extending ScienceBase for Disaster Risk Reduction – Bard, Joe
Transforming Biosurveillance by Standardizing and Serving 40 Years of Wildlife Disease Data – Blehert, David
Integrating short-term climate forecasts into a restoration management support tool – Bradford, John
National Public Screening Tool for Invasive and Non-native Aquatic Species Data – Daniel, Wesley
High-Resolution, Interagency Biosurveillance of Threatened Surface Waters in the United States – Eldridge, Sara
Develop Cloud Computing Capability at Streamgages using Amazon Web Services GreenGrass IoT Framework for Camera Image Velocity Gaging – Engel, Frank
Serving the U.S. Geological Survey’s geochronological data – Gilmer, Amy
Establishing standards and integrating environmental DNA (eDNA) data into the USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species database – Hunter, Margaret
Subsidence Susceptibility Map for the Conterminous U.S. – Jones, Jeanne
A generic web application to visualize and understand movements of tagged animals – Letcher, Ben
Building a Roadmap for Making Data FAIR in the U.S. Geological Survey – Lightsom, Fran
Coupling Hydrologic Models with Data Services in an Interoperable Modeling Framework – McDonald, Richard
Implementing a Grassland Productivity Forecast Tool for the U.S. Southwest – Reed, Sasha
An Interactive Web-based Tool for Anticipating Long-term Drought Risk – Bradford, John
ICE! Ice Jam Hazard Mobile-Enabled Website – Chase, Katherine
National Alert Risk Mapper for Nonindigenous Aquatic Species – Fuller, Pam
Knowledge Extraction Algorithms (KEA): Turning Literature Into Data – Neilson, Matthew
Investigation of lidar data processing and analysis in the cloud – Walker, Jessica
Content specifications to enable USGS transition to ISO metadata standard – Walworth, Dennis
Mapping land-use, hazard vulnerability and habitat suitability using deep neural networks – Warrick, Jonathan
Workflows to support integrated predictive science capacity: Forecasting invasive species for natural resource planning and risk assessment – Weltzin, Jake
An Interactive Web-based Application for Earthquake-triggered Ground Failure Inventories – Allstadt, Kate
Automating the use of citizen scientists biodiversity surveys in iNaturalist to facilitate early detection of species responses to climate change – Boydston, Erin
Flocks of a feather dock together: Using Docker and HTCondor to link high-throughput computing across the USGS – Erickson, Richard
USGS Data at Risk: Expanding Legacy Data Inventory and Preservation Strategies – Everette, Anthony
Exploring the USGS Science Data Life Cycle in the Cloud – Golden, Nadine
Empowering decision-makers: A dynamic web interface for running Bayesian networks – Lentz, Erika
Web Mapping Application for a Historical Geologic Field Photo Collection – Nagorsen, Sarah
Visualizing community exposure and evacuation potential to tsunami hazards using an interactive Tableau dashboard – Peters, Jeff
Developing APIs to support enterprise level monitoring using existing tools – Reichert, Brian
Extending ScienceCache Mobile Application for Data Collection to Accommodate Broader Use within USGS – Wiltermuth, Mark
Evaluation and testing of standardized forest vegetation metrics derived from lidar data – Young, John
Developing a USGS Legacy Data Inventory to Preserve and Release Historical USGS Data – Faundeen, John
Crowd-Sourced Earthquake Detections Integrated into Seismic Processing – Guy, Michelle
Integration of Phenological Forecast Maps for Assessment of Biodiversity: An Enterprise Workflow – Weltzin, Jake
Evaluating a new opensource, standardsbased framework for web portal development in the geosciences – Signell, Rich
Hunting Invasive Species with HTCondor: High Throughput Computing for Big Data and Next Generation Sequencing – McCalla, S. Grace
Development of Recommended Practices and Workflow for Publishing Digital Data through ScienceBase for Dynamic Visualization – Chase, Katharine
Facilitating the USGS Scientific Data Management Foundation by integrating the process into current scientific workflow systems – Talbert, Colin
A data management and visualization framework for community vulnerability to hazards – Jones, Jeanne
Data Management Training Clearinghouse – Nelson, John
National Stream Summarization: Standardizing Stream-Landscape Summaries – Wieferich, Daniel
Integration of National Soil and Wetland Datasets: A Toolkit for Reproducible Calculation and Quality Assessment of Imputed Wetland Soil Properties – Sundquist, Eric
A web-based application for the management and visualization of land-use scenario data – Sherba, Jason
Birds and the Bakken: Integration of oil well, land cover, and species distribution data to inform conservation in areas of energy development – Preston, Todd
Integration of Land Cover Trends Field Photography with an Online Map Service – Soulard, Christopher
National Dam Removal Database: A living database for information on dying dams – Duda, Jeff
Making Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Data Available to USGS Scientists and the Public – Lacey, Jennifer
sbtools: an R package for ScienceBase – Winslow, Luke
Standards-based Integration and Delivery of USGS and EPA STORET Biomonitoring Data via the Water Quality Data Portal – Ruhl, Peter
Web-enabled Visualization and Access of Value-added Disaster Products – Lamb, Rynn
Geocaching Natural Features – Applying Game Mechanics to Citizen Science Data Collection – Graves, Tabitha
The 'Digital Grain Size' Web and Mobile-Computing Application – Buscombe, Daniel
*Use of controlled vocabularies in USGS information applications: Requirements analysis for automated processes and services – Lightsom, Fran
*Portable ISO 19115/19110 Open Source Developer's Toolkit – Smith, Stan
*Geographic Searches for USGS Publications – Wesenberg, Kathy
Characterization of Earthquake Damage and Effects Using Social Media Data – Guy, Michelle
Online Merging and Gridding of Topographic and Bathymetric Data Sources – Long, Joseph
NAS Web API: Web Services access to the Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database – Fuller, Pam
Summarization of National NEXRAD Data for use in Biological Applications – Diehl, Robert
North American Bat Data Integration – Ellison, Laura
Adopt a Pixel - Data Infrastructure – Longhenry, Ryan
Use of controlled vocabularies in USGS information applications: Requirements analysis for automated processes and services – Lightsom, Fran
Portable ISO 19115/19110 Open Source Developer's Toolkit – Smith, Stan
Geographic Searches for USGS Publications – Sanders, Rex
Metadata Wizard – Ignizio, Drew
myScience: Citizen Science – Holl, Sally
Establishing the Land Use Land Cover Geo Data Portal and Supporting Data Services – Blodgett, Dave
Networking the California Climate Commons with the USGS Geo Data Portal – Flint, Lorraine
National Land Cover Database Visualization and Information Tool – Homer, Collin
*Data Management Workshops for USGS: Let the Culture Change Begin – Hutchison, Viv
Mining the USGS Data Landscape – Everette, Lance
Development of Enhanced Feature Recognition Software for the Extraction of Mine Features from USGS Topographic Maps – Fernette, Greg
USGS Protocol Library: An Implementation Based on the National Environmental Methods Index – Sullivan, Dan
Accessing Geo Data Portal Functionality with Python Tools – Price, Curtis
Citizen Science Observation Platform - Using Curated Twitter and GeoRSS Enabled Feeds – Masaki, Derek
Combined ScienceBase and Geo Data Portal Tools – Smyrl, Laura
*Data Management Plan Implementation and Framework – Burley, Tom
*Data Management Training and Education – Henkel, Heather; Hutchison, Viv
*Data Management Website – Henkel, Heather; Hutchison, Viv
Expand the National Map Save As/Open In to USGS Wide – Dollison, Rob
Facilitating Knowledge Integration with a Monitoring Protocol Registry – Schei, Jacquelyn
Implementing an OpenLayers HTML5 Mapping Library – Ladino, Cassandra
Mobile application to collect national consistent data of fish passage barriers in the United States – Maltby, David
*NWIS Web Services Snapshot for ArcGIS – Holl, Sally
Semantic Technologies for Integrating USGS Data – Gordon, Janice
USGS Citizen Science Workshop – Hines, Megan
USGS Mobile Applications Development Support Framework – Schmid, Lorna
Data Management Education Products – Henkel, Heather; Hutchison, Viv
Data Management Web Toolbox – Henkel, Heather; Hutchison, Viv
Data Management Workshop – Hutchison, Viv
Science Data Lifecycle Model – Faundeen, John
NWIS Web Services Snapshot Tool for ArcGIS – Holl, Sally
Enhanced Metadata Capability for CBI Metadata Tool - ScienceBase – Kern, Tim
FGDC-ISO Remapping for CBI Metadata Tool - ScienceBase – Kern, Tim
Geo Data Portal – Blodgett, Dave
Added to the National Map: Web Services for the National Hydrography Dataset, National Elevation Dataset and National Land Cover Dataset – Gunther, Greg
NWIS Web Services Snapshot for ArcGIS – Pearson, Daniel
Data Upload, Registry and Access Project (a capability of ScienceBase) – Bristol, Sky