Madison, Wisconsin, a Strategic Planning Working Group was formed to develop a new vision of the ESIP Federation in its second decade. The ESIP Federation’s partner organizations include all NOAA, NASA and USGS Earth observing data centers, government research laboratories, research universities, modelers, education resource providers, technology developers, nonprofits and commercial enterprises. In 2009 and 2010 new ESIP Federation communities formed around data preservation and stewardship, information quality, and data visualization. Partners ESIP is made up of more than 170 partner organizations that span NASA, NOAA, EPA, USGS and DOE research-funded groups. ESIP's partners represent earth science data and technology interests. There are four types of partners; Type I includes Data Centers, Type II are data and information product providers, Type III are commercial and non-commercial organizations that develop tools for Earth Science and Type IV are the funding providers, NASA, NOAA and USGS. A full listing of ESIP Partners is at the organization's website. Interests Technology Semantic technologies Cloud Computing Web Services Metadata Standards Emerging technologies Modeling Science Atmospheric Climate Terrestrial Oceanography Hydrology Environmental Geology Ecology Applied science Air quality Water resources Natural disasters Carbon management Activities Visualization programs Standardized QA/QC processes Standardized metadata initiatives Educational outreach to provide public school teachers with quality science units Semantic web and ontology development Energy and climate initiatives References National Academy Press (1995). A Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program and NASA’s Mission to Planet Earth/Earth Observing System. http://www.gcrio.org/USGCRP/LaJolla/cover.html http://wiki.esipfed.org/images/9/95/StrategicPlan_2009-2013_FINAL.pdf Earth sciences organizations Earth sciences software infrastructure organizations International scientific organizations Climate change organizations based in the United States Meteorological organizations Scientific organizations based in the United States Scientific organizations established in 1998 1998 establishments in the United States