ESIIL Environmental Data Science Needs Assessment Report

The Environmental Data Science Innovation and Inclusion Lab (ESIIL, www.esiil.org) serves as a data science center of excellence and synthesis center that facilitates collaboration across large, diverse teams through the ESIIL Network. ESIIL brings together a diverse community of environmental and biological data scientists to turn environmental and biological data into actionable understanding and knowledge toward a more sustainable society. The center activities support ESIIL's mission: "Empower an inclusive and diverse community to accelerate continental-scale environmental data science (EDS)".

This report includes the outcomes of a Needs Assessment conducted in the first year of the ESIIL data science center development. The goals of this evaluation work are to identify the needs, priorities, and goals of the Environmental Data Science community and identify paths to strengthen the center's growth and development.