Latest Contributions by DawnWright

The new NOAA Climate Explorer developed with the Esri JS API launched publicly this week. Climate Explorer is a rich resource featuring more than just maps. This link will take you to an example map view in the new version … In short; -          NOAA Climate Program Office, with NEMAC, created the original US Climate Explorer in 2014 with opensource tech -          NEMAC and NOAA, with support from Fernleaf, have rewritten the Climate Explorer with the Esri JS API, and are integrating Living Atlas content directly into it. o   The new site has an impressive multi-scale explorer interface for various layers, swipe tools, charts…. 6k grids for US/ or options for county-level aggregation -          An update is planned with deeper Living Atlas and Story Map integration, launching early fall -          Current case studies on the Climate Explorer site are being transitioned to Story Maps, including integration with the National Water Model for example. -          NOAA Climate Program Office Director is pleased with the change to the ArcGIS JS API, and supportive of the planned Living Atlas enhancements -          The new site is hosted on a NEMAC server, to ensure continuity during potential government shutdowns   Primary collaborators include; - NOAA’s Climate Program Office - UNC-Asheville’s NEMAC (National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center – 2016 SAG Award for Research and Science), - Fernleaf Interactive, an Esri Startup co-located with NEMAC at Asheville’s Climate Collider (collaborative office space) -          NEMAC spun-off Fernleaf two years ago to handle commercial demand for resilience consulting to local gov market Fernleaf now supports a product, AccelAdapt, an SAS resilience assessment solution for ArcGIS incorporating parcel and building data into the “Six Steps for Resilience” process. Workflows deliver ArcGIS Web Services as products to hundreds of communities Related, -          Fernleaf is sharing AccelAdapt workflows (which leverage the Climate Explorer) -          Climate Explorer will feed inputs to AccelAdapt via the living Atlas in fall release -          Fernleaf will be in the StartUp Zone at the Esri UC for the 2 nd year.   This is an exemplar of an academic research team spinning-off a thriving Esri Startup, then providing the Climate Explorer as a critical public/ private partnership. ... View more

Great new story map debuted by Brett Rose of the Esri National Government Sciences Team today at the 2018 FedGIS Conference, with dynamic particle tracking and "message-in-a-bottle" functions embedded:  What Causes Ocean Currents? Thanks to Witold Fraczek‌ for creating this extensive resource! ... View more

Dear Colleague, As an attendee of either the 2018 Esri Education Summit or the 2018 Esri User Conference, you are warmly invited to a special event, the Esri Science Symposium.   When & Where: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 4:00-6:30 pm San Diego Convention Center (SDCC) Ballroom 20 D The 2018 symposium will include the following: A keynote address by Dr. Camilo Mora, University of Hawaii, about some of the most important climate change issues of the day, including deadly heat waves   A follow-up conversation by a reaction panel including Tom Cova, University of Utah; Kellee Koenig, Conservation International; Mark Kumler, University of Redlands; Karen Kemp, University of Southern California; and Amber Wittner, US Geological Survey   Audience Q&A and interactive discussion   Networking reception with delicious appetizers and a hosted bar providing beer, wine, soft drinks, and bottled water   This event seeks to broaden the tent of Esri UC participation—beyond the traditional geographers and GIScientists—to include those working in the domain sciences (e.g., ocean science, hydrology, ecology, forestry, climate science, geology/geophysics, agricultural science, conservation biology, sustainability science and/or geodesign, health sciences, and the social sciences). A further aim is to strengthen the links between Esri and the scientific community, while (re)crystallizing a community of scientists at the Esri UC who normally attend disparate sessions throughout the week. Please feel free to share this invitation (including the RSVP link) with others who might be interested. We look forward to seeing you in San Diego this July! Best wishes,   Dawn Wright, Esri Chief Scientist Jack Dangermond, Esri President and CEO   RSVP for the Symposium at esriurl.com/rsvp ... View more

See this important blog post by Orhun Aydin‌ of Esri's Spatial Statistics Team where he describes different means of integrating space into scientific problem solving, with an eye toward generic (non-spatial) machine learning, spatial machine learning, and non-spatial machine learning with geoenriched predictors. The Science of Where in a Warming Planet: Spatial vs Non-Spatial Machine Learning ... View more

Esri Chief Scientist Dawn Wright  is an invited speaker for the 4D Workshop: Deep-time Data Driven Discovery and the Evolution of Earth   The 4-D Workshop will be convened June 4-6, 2018 in Washington DC with sponsorship by NASA, the USGS, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the Keck Foundation, the Earth Life Science Institute (Japan), the Carnegie Institution for Science, the Templeton Foundation, and others.    The Senior Advisory Council for the event includes the current President of the National Academy of Sciences (Marcia McNutt), the former president of the National Science Foundation (Rita Colwell), the former corporate vice president of Microsoft (Tony Hey), Chief Data Officer of NOAA Ed Kearns, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography Margaret Leinen, Executive Director and CEO of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Christine McEntee, Executive Director of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Erin Robinson.    The objective of the event is to “explore ways to advance our understanding of Earth’s complex co-evolving geosphere and biosphere through the collection, analysis, and visualization of large and growing data resources. It is a prelude to a potential long-term program to invent, modify, and apply emerging methods of data analysis and visualization to elucidate our planet’s past, present, and future. Earth’s evolution has been an intertwined succession of increasingly complex physical, chemical, and biological events. Therefore, 4D’s organizing principal is an integrated approach that will enable humankind to achieve a comprehensive picture of the co-evolution of life and rocks, while collaborating with research teams around the world.”   The workshop results will tie into the Keck- and Sloan-supported Deep-Time Data Infrastructure: (http://dtdi.carnegiescience.edu).    Dawn Wright has been asked to speak at the first plenary session on the second day of the event, on "Artificial intelligence and machine learning for Earth surface data and conservation priorities" (with thanks to Omar Maher, David Gadsden, and Nathan Shephard for materials). She has also been asked to participate in and possibly chair breakout sessions, will be presenting a poster on Esri’s phase 2 of the  Ecological Marine Units, and may be contributing content to the Workshop's White Paper. ... View more

Great new story map originally debuted by Brett Rose of the Esri National Government Sciences Team at the 2018 FedGIS Conference, with dynamic particle tracking and "message-in-a-bottle" functions embedded  What Causes Ocean Currents? A companion story map is  How Ocean Currents Impact the World Thanks to Witold Fraczek‌ for creating these extensive resources! ... View more

Next Phase of an Unprecedented Global “Digital Ocean” Project (aka Ecological Marine Units) by # Esri Chief Scientist DWright-esristaff featured in the May/June issue of Geoconnexion International http://p.ctx.ly/r/7pps   Or see attached ... ... View more

Esri and the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded initiative known as EarthCube have today signed an informal Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). EarthCube was initiated by the NSF in 2011 to "transform geoscience research by developing cyberinfrastructure to improve access, sharing, visualization, and analysis of all forms of geosciences data and related resources." It is also a "quickly growing community of scientists across all geoscience domains, as well as geoinformatics researchers and data scientists."   As Esri Chief Scientist I have been pleased to serve on the EarthCube Liaison Team since 2014 and have built a "Mapping the Landscape" story map for the team which has been presented at several EarthCube-related meetings. We hope that this project will continue and merge with similar efforts at ESIP (Federation of Earth Science Information Partners), AGU (American Geophysical Union), and RDA (Research Data Alliance). The MOA was developed and signed by way of the Liaison Team and joint activities to be pursued include:  mapping the larger geo/ cyberinfrastructure landscape and community (e.g., the story map) and further updating such a “landscape” map with organizations, initiatives, agencies, data facilities, etc., as well as assessing where EarthCube fits into this landscape; semantic search, data mining-based metadata enrichment, persistent identifiers, geo-ontologies, and where possible, Linked Open Data; more efficient access to data once found within searches, including the building of data publishing and geoprocessing services in the cloud to make data more accessible; and removing barriers to data integration and interoperability, error and uncertainty of observations, spatial and temporal gaps in observations, and the related issues of user involvement and capacity building. Toward this end, there will be the free exchange of emails, literature, computer code, and data where appropriate between Esri and the EarthCube community. ... View more