GSLIS adjunct lecturer Ruth Duerr, from the Ronin Institute for Independent Scholars, was honored with the Martha Maiden Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to the Earth Science Information Community by the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) at the January 2016 ESIP meeting. Duerr teaches Foundations of Data Curation at GSLIS.
The award, named for Martha Maiden, program executive for Earth Science Data Systems at NASA, honors individuals who have demonstrated leadership, dedication, and a collaborative spirit in advancing the field of Earth science information.
“Ruth’s dedication to the principles of Earth science information access and sharing are exemplified by her service as an ESIP liaison on many community initiatives, both nationally and internationally, that have led to improvements in capabilities and understanding of the issues necessary to facilitate access to and sharing of Earth science information,” says the nomination committee’s citation.
Duerr has served in various leadership roles within ESIP. She has also contributed to the success of many ESIP activities and inspired other members of the community to contribute in the same spirit. Duerr served as the founding chair of the ESIP Data Stewardship Committee and helped grow that committee out of the earlier ESIP Preservation and Stewardship cluster, which she also led.
About ESIP
The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is a community of innovative science, data, and information technology practitioners. ESIP members catalyze connections across traditional institutional and domain boundaries to solve critical Earth science data stewardship, information technology, and interoperability issues. Through this work, ESIP improves Earth science data management practices and makes Earth science data more discoverable, accessible, and useful to researchers, policy makers, and the public.