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Esri, as the world's sixth largest privately-owned technology company, a world leader in geographic information system software, spatial data science research and development, and a strong record of supporting thousands of environmental conservation initiatives since our founding in 1969, holds a vision to conduct business in harmony with the environment. This embodies Esri’s core values in the way we function, and spurs us on toward our mission of continually embedding sustainability in our internal operations (e.g., www.esri.com/en-us/about/sustainability-statement). As part of our values we acknowledge that everyone and everything in this world is connected. One does not have to lose profits by conserving – everyone needs clean air, clean water, everyone has a sense of place. It does not have to be good vs evil. We care about the same things no matter what business sector we represent or where we fall on the POLITICAL spectrum: we want a safe place to live, clean water, clean air for our families, safe food, gainful employment; good health for our family, friends, loved ones, our community, city, country, world. Science-based land and ocean conservation serve to ensure this.   Esri’s ongoing sustainability initiative, includes a new strategic plan, a host of performance reporting and employee community networking and sustainability improvement projects, all in keeping with the #TogetherWithNature principles. This plan includes: Continuing to Reduce our greenhouse gas (GHG) Footprint by identifying our current scope of emissions and working to reduce our net GHG emissions. Quantifying Sustainability in Esri Operations by following policies and practices to reduce our environmental impact, exceed environmental standards where practicable (such as Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards and the GHG Corporate Standard), and measuring our success. We currently deploying our own host of company-wide sustainability performance dashboards, built with our own GIS technology, that tracks pounds of CO2 emissions avoided, pounds of e-waste and hazardous waste recycled, gallons of water saved, kilowatt hours saved, pounds of particulate emissions saved, and annual car CO2 emissions avoided. Increasing Environmental Stewardship: as sustainability lies deep in our company’s values, we aim to foster sustainable practices within our organization and among our employees, distributors, and partners, including the conservation and protection of existing ecosystems on our campuses, within our vast communities, and at the global level through deep participation in initiatives such as the EO Wilson Biodiversity Foundation’s Half-Earth, Microsoft’s AI for Earth and Planetary Computer, National Geographic’s Earth Pulse, Nature Serve’s Map of Biodiversity Importance, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and more. Enabling Sustainability Solutions: The largest impact we can make in creating a sustainable world is through our users. We work to enable our user community of 350,000 organizations worldwide to build sustainability solutions with our location intelligence technology. To make careful and consistent decisions on issues such as fair and sustainable economic models that create new employment opportunities; where to engage underserved customers; where a company’s carbon footprint is rising or falling; where employees’ income levels fail to match the local cost of living or reveal discrepancies like a gender pay gap, companies need a way to monitor, manage, and report on their activities. One way to do this is to focus on the element that grounds nearly every social responsibility issue: its geographic dimension—the whereof what happens. For a holistic view of where an organization’s work supports its broader social duties—and where improvements are needed—companies are moving toward the idea of smart mapping to create a corporate responsibility map. In smart maps, organizations have a powerful tool to plan, track, and manage efforts toward responsible practices in every geography they touch. Many have already harnessed location intelligence generated by smart maps to grow their businesses profitably. Now, they’re finding this geographic guidance indispensable in the era of stakeholder value. Esri is proud to be among the 120 Signatories that have committed to the four #TogetherWithNature principles for investing in #NatureBasedSolutions. For more information, see TogetherWithNature.com. ... View more

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! ... View more

We are pleased to share the lineup of oral talks, panels, and posters that will be presented December 9-13 at the 2019 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco's newly renovated Moscone Center, as well as the Esri Booth Demo Schedule, the most comprehensive and exciting ever. Many know of AGU as among the world’s most well-respected Earth science scholarly organizations, and its annual fall meeting dwarfs our UC by over 10,000 attendees. AGU 2019 expects 28,000 attendees from 113 countries, making it the largest Earth and space science meeting in the world. In addition, AGU's Centennial Celebration will culiminate at this year's Fall Meeting. As part of the celebration, AGU will be featuring Story Maps at their AGU Central booth, which will be at the base of the escalators in Moscone North, and then online afterward. The story maps will showcase AGU's public engagement projects for the Centennial and to map their Thriving Earth Exchange work.   You’ll see in the list below of scientific papers, posters, and entire sessions that Esri is leading or contributing on a wide variety of interesting and important projects. Many of these are in collaboration with our federal partners at NASA, NOAA, US Forest Service, Department of Energy, EPA, and the USGS, as well as several universities and national laboratories. This showcases how Esri not only enables great understanding of the world with our products and services, but also performs good science, and contributes well as a member of the scientific community, sharing and inspiring others as to The Science of Where. In addition, we will have a large theater-style exhibit booth (coordinated by Research & Sciences Industry Manager Drew Stephens‌) with messaging and demos (as organized by Dan Pisut) on multidimensional scientific data and analysis, imagery, big data geoanalytics, The Living Atlas, ArcGIS Pro, Imagery, Ecological Land Units, Ecological Marine Units, GeoPlanner,  Insights, story maps, the web GIS pattern, our commitment to open/interoperable, and more. See the Esri Booth Demo Schedule and exhibit floor plan (Esri is booth 739 near the central walkway to the right of NASA). Overall, we are sending 17 Esri staff to participate at AGU.  AGU PRESENTATIONS and SESSIONS with Esri Co-Authors (where ED = Education, IN = Earth and Space Science Informatics, OS = Ocean Sciences; 5-character session numbers are entire sessions) ED23D Earth Data Science Education: Training Earth Scientists for Interdisciplinary Work on New and Emerging Approaches eLightning ED23D-03 Learn ArcGIS: Nurturing spatial curiosity, appreciation and exploration of maps with story-driven self-guided hands-on learning labs IN11A Scalable Cloud Optimized Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for Earth Science Big Data and Analytics I IN11A-10 Developing a platform for multidimensional raster analytics IN13B Scalable Cloud Optimized Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for Earth Science Big Data and Analytics II Posters IN31C Advances in Earth and Space Science Informatics Posters IN41D Geospatial Intelligence: Data-Driven Research in the Earth Sciences II Posters IN43A Geospatial Intelligence: Data-Driven Research in the Earth Sciences I IN43A-01 Leveraging an Interoperable Scalable Data Platform to Support Earth Observation Data Analytics IN51B-05 EarthLive, a NOAA GOES Imagery Service, Pushing the Near Real Time Technology Boundaries by Using Tile Services in the Cloud OS13C-1542 E/V Nautilus Mapping and Multibeam Data from 2019 Expeditions in the Pacific Ocean - Finding and Filling the Gaps SELECTED AGU PRESENTATIONS by OUR USERS  (where ED = Education, EP = Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, GH = Geohealth, H = Hydrology, IN = Earth and Space Science Informatics, NH = Natural Hazards, NS = Near Surface Geophysics, OS = Ocean Sciences) EP13C-2156 Morphodynamics in a Tropical Shallow Lagoon: Observation and Inferences of Change GH24A-08 USE OF SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE SATELLITE DATA (SMAP) AND WORLDCLIM2 DATA TO PREDICT THE POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTION OF VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS AND ITS VECTOR LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS IN BRAZIL H21H-1821 Identification and Verification of Freshwater Lenses in Florida using Hydrogeological and Remote Sensing Techniques H51N-1675 Protecting Steep Slopes against Soil Erosion: Geotextiles and its Effectiveness under Heavy Rainfall IN13B-0719 Systematic Data Transformation to Enable ArcGIS Image Services and Web Coverage Services (WCS) within the NASA Earth Science Data System’s Cloud NH53A-05 GISMR: A Computer Application to Perform Kinematic Analysis, Slope Mass Rating and Optimization of Slope Angle on a GIS Platform With the Aid of ArcGIS or QGIS NS21C-0826 Continued Mapping of Bedrock Topography and Drift Thickness of the Preglacial Teays River within the Anna Seismic Zone, Ohio. OS13C-1535 Seabed habitat mapping using available regional bathymetric data along the Eastern Brazilian Margin View and search the entire 2019 AGU Fall Meeting Program at this link.  ... View more

A Wakelet Twitter compilation of Esri's Ocean and Atmospheric GIS Forum, is now available. In addition, the opening plenary remarks entitled "Your Knowledge... Our Community... ONE Planet's Resilience" are available at esrirurl.com/forum19.  ... View more

As we begin both the Esri Ocean and Atmospheric Forum as well as the Seabed 2030 Map the Gaps Symposium, here is a Wakelet (essentially my notes and pictures) of last month's Nippon-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Vision-to-Action event in London. This includes a recap of the panel that I was asked to serve on with Andy Hoggarth of Teledyne CARIS, Almar Hollaar of QPS, and Wetherbee Dorshow of Earth Analytic.  This meeting, which took place at the historic Royal Society on Tuesday 22 October, was convened to mark the progress made in the two years since Seabed 2030 was launched, and to look ahead to the remaining challenges of mapping the gaps in our understanding of the seafloor. In the short time that it has been operational, Seabed 2030 has already seen a doubling of the bathymetric data available to produce the definitive map of the world’s oceans – an increase equivalent in size to the landmass of the entire African continent. The invitation-only roster of attendees included some of the world’s leading ocean scientists and maritime organizations, including representatives from the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. Also in attendance were delegates from industry partners such as Esri (Chief Scientist Dawn Wright and Maritime Program Manager + GEBCO TSCOM Vice Chair Caitlyn Raines), the XPRIZE Foundation, and the team behind SEA-KIT, the unmanned surface vessel (USV) which formed a key part of the GEBCO-Nippon Foundation Alumni Team’s winning entry in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE. For additional info and notes see esriurl.com/visiontoaction and Seabed 2030's press release. ... View more

Welcome to our new Esri science portfolio site! Science underpins everything that Esri produces. We develop for and support a number of sciences. We're very excited about all the things that we're doing across all the environmental sciences, and into the social sciences and digital humanities. This is embedded in what we do—to strengthen the foundation of our software and services; to research, publish, communicate, and serve alongside the scientific community; and to inspire positive change in society. Rather than a site focusing exclusively on what we SELL, this site focuses on what we BELIEVE as we conduct the broad and important MISSION of science (THE SCIENCE OF WHERE ®). In turn, it shares what we are specifically ACCOMPLISHING in collaboration with our users, in the areas of Open Science, Weather & Climate, Solid Earth Science (e.g., hydrology, ecology, geology, agriculture, etc.), Ocean Science, Geographic Information Science (including data science), and Social Science.   Let's keep going forward together! Enjoy!  ... View more

Registration for the Esri Ocean and Atmospheric GIS Forum in sunny Redlands, Nov 5-7 is still open! Paper deadline extended to 13 September! Don't miss out, especially at this critical time for oceans, weather & climate change! https://www.esri.com/…/about/events/ocean-gis-forum/overview #EsriOceanForum  We are offering the most exciting Forum ever, with a potent array of workshops, speakers, sponsors, and new information and insights for this growing community. We are also extending a warm welcome (and focused content) to our Atmospheric and MetOcean users. Our community is moving into new and profound areas, such as large scale bathy data collection and processing, 3D and 4D analytics, new applications for imagery, IoT, and big data processing at sea, and much more. We are certain that attending this year’s Forum will inspire innovative approaches from proven best practices, which will help ‘close the gap’ between your work, and the solutions our people and planet require. What to Expect: Three Powerful Days of Networking, Learning, and Collaborating. After a welcome from Esri Chief Scientist Dawn Wright, and words of inspiration from Sylvia A. Earle (!!), Joseph A. Pica of the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS)(https://www.weather.gov/organization/pica-joseph) will present the keynote address on Tuesday, November 5. Pica serves as Deputy Director at the National Centers for Environmental Information, providing access to one of the most significant archives on earth, with comprehensive oceanic, atmospheric, and geophysical data from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun and from million-year-old ice core records to near-real-time satellite images. The morning will continue with a short set of technical presentations from accomplished technology architects and thought leaders from both the atmospheric and ocean communities.  On Wednesday, November 6th we feature the Technical Plenary, where feature a unique set of Ocean and Atmospheric analysis demonstrations, with out-of-the-box functionality that will inspire your work across several application areas. Included in the Tech Plenary topics are the following: - Machine Learning for Ocean Plastics - Space Time Cubes - Multidimensional analytical tools - Map comparison workflows - Applied Big Data analysis - Data Automation We will have several post-conference workshops to choose from on Thursday, November 7: - Insights for ArcGIS with Ocean Data - Field Operations and Story Maps - Web AppBuilder and Configurable Apps - Using Drone2Map - ArcGIS Pro Basics for Science - Advanced Analytical Workflows for Ocean and Atmospheric Science Also attending are business partners, distributors, and Esri staff, who will be presenting an amazing array of new applications and techniques that will define the state of Ocean and MetOcean GIS and forge your creativity in your work. Please join us at Esri headquarters and get involved to inspire your peers from this thriving community of mutli-D GIS practitioners! Register today! http://www.esri.com/events/ocean  ... View more