Recap of the 2020 Esri Science Symposium
Many thanks again to those who attended the Science Symposium as part of the 2020 virtual Esri User Conference. Your participation made for the greatest event ever, with 1183 attending from at least 20 countries....
... and the amazing keynote address by Katharine Hayhoe generated 140 audience questions and comments within Slido, as well as some great audience responses in terms of polls and word clouds within Poll Everywhere!
We, of course, were not able to get to all of the questions, and Katharine and I recorded a second podcast between us (Climate Change is Here and Now) as a way to answer a few more of the remaining questions and take on related issues. This podcast was released in mid-November and was also announced via @khayhoe, @deepseadawn and @GISandScience on Twitter, as well as LinkedIn. See also our first podcast, Climate Change: Science, Solutions, Hope, released in June.
We are pleased to share with you these items by way of Science Symposium followup:
- a recording of the entire session is available within the UC 2020 platform for those of you who were officially registered for the UC. If you log in again, you can re-watch the session as many times as you would like at uc2020.esri.com/live-stream/15346311/Science-Symposium.
- October 1st update! The full recording is now available on YouTube !
- the introductory slide deck of Esri Chief Scientist Dawn Wright is still available at this link;
- the slide deck of keynote speaker Prof. Katharine Hayhoe is now available at this link;
- a Wakelet social media compilation featuring your own notes, impressions, and screen shots is now available at wakelet.com/wake/gg4HggQjJtP26BECndRws or as a pdf.
- there are some additional photos by yours truly on Flickr beginning here.
- Prof. Hayhoe's TED Talk: The Most Important Thing You Can do to Fight Climate Change: Talk About It
- Even more resources following on from the October podcast:
- Global Weirding episodes on YouTube
- Fourth National Climate Assessment
- Esri's Racial Equity and Social Justice Resources (extremely relevant to climate change)
- Project Drawdown
- Climate Courage by Andreas Karelas
- All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson (with a chapter by Katharine Hayhoe)
Next year's keynote will be delivered by NatureServe Chief Scientist and Vice President for Conservation Healy Hamilton!
Thanks again and we hope to see you next year!