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ESIIL - The Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab

Join our growing community of Environmental Data Science educators

ESIIL's 2026 Data Short Course

Our free, beginner-level Data Short Course introduces Environmental Data Science (EDS) educators and leaders to fundamental EDS education tools. Participants learn fundamental teaching tools for open EDS education and research including collaborative web publishing with GitHub, structuring text Markdown, and interactive computing with notebooks.

All trainings will be available as both live online workshops and materials for self-paced learning. Building on participation in the short course, we will establish an ongoing open community forum, help desk, and office hours to support continued learning and capacity-building.

Registration is open for the 2026 Data Short Course!

Empowering a broad community to accelerate open Environmental Data Science

Discover our Working Groups

Working Groups are self-organized research teams who pool knowledge and expertise from various disciplines to tackle environmental issues with an integrative and data-driven perspective. Click below to learn more about ESIIL's working groups, read the request for proposals, or sign up for an information session.

Building Capacity to Leverage Big Environmental Data

Explore our Learning Resources

We have created open training and educational resources to help build capacity for learning and teaching environmental data science skills.

Latest News

ESIIL’s 2026 Innovation Summit: Advancing AI for Sustainability 

Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Sixteen self-organized teams applied their AI training and interest to topics such as food systems and agriculture, ener...

Announcing ESIIL's Third Cohort of Working Groups

Tuesday, March 17, 2026
After thoughtful review, we are thrilled to announce the selection of ESIIL’s third cohort of working groups!

ESIIL Members Join Sustainability Research Initiative's Fellowship Program

Friday, February 27, 2026
ESIIL team members were selected for the University of Colorado's Sustainability Research Initiative first cohort of fel...

Bringing Environmental Data Science community members together to foster learning and innovation

ESIIL Calendar

View our upcoming events or plan your working group meeting.