Latest Contributions by DawnWright

Did you know that the fall season can be ALMOST as busy as pre-UC for Esri staff in terms of important science conferences? Here is the road ahead from my perspective.   October 17-19 – It will be great to have the Esri Health and Human Services GIS Conference here in Redlands this year, where Jack himself will speak, as well as Director of Sales Chris Cappelli, our own Chief Medical Officer Dr. Este Geraghty, spatial stats queen Lauren Bennett and spatial epidemiologist Dr. Linda Beale (of Insights fame). They will be joined by a host of distinguished plenary speakers including the COO of Kaiser Permanente and the Chief Medical Officer of Inland Empire Health Plan. Science-of-Where approaches toward stemming the opioid epidemic are sure to be among the many important timely and topics.   October 31-November 2 – The Esri Ocean GIS Forum here in Redlands moves into its fifth offering and is on track for its largest attendance ever. It has become more than just a small esoteric, specialist meeting. It is in fact a very important community-building event cutting horizontally across many business sectors, especially national govt, state/local govt, natural resources, nonprofit, education, defense. And did you know that it is often at the FORUM that new tech is demoed or introduced even BEFORE the Dev Summit or UC (e.g., dry run of VR/AR, launch of the SciPy Stack, advancements in multidimensional sci analysis, etc.). This year’s keynote will be given by former astronaut & NOAA administrator Kathryn Sullivan. And we will again be honored by Chris Cappelli’s plenary participation.   November 7-10 – ACM SIGSPATIAL in Redondo Beach. Esri plays a large and significant role in ACM SIGSPATIAL, one of the best academic conferences directly relating to key topics being addressed by Esri software development. Esri is a corporate sponsor for this event along with Google, Lyft, Facebook, Oracle, nVidia, Microsoft, IBM, and Ordnance Survey). With Esri's Erik Hoel at the helm as conference co-chair, Esri Dev staff serve as conference officers and members of the program committee. And Esri Dev staff have had two full papers accepted for presentation and publication (one on spatio-temporal join in Apache Spark and one on a new utility-centric graph information model). This is quite an achievement given the highly selective 17% acceptance rate (~40 papers out of ~230 were accepted). Esri had 2 of the top 7 ranked papers by numerical evaluation score!   November 9-10 – Imagery Education Summit here in Redlands - This one-time-only, invitation-only event will host 75-100 remote sensing/imagery faculty members from top universities across the country to discuss Esri’s technical advancements in imagery, drive platform adoption at these top universities and help them transform their imagery curricula. Conceived and convened by Imagery Director Lawrie Jordan, and co-sponsored by NASA and Oak Ridge National Lab.   December 11-15 – American Geophysical (AGU) Fall Meeting in New Orleans. AGU is the world largest, more pre-eminent Earth science conference. It dwarfs our UC with an annual attendance of over 25,000. AGU is a meeting that we not only serve as exhibitors, but co-organize sessions with scientists, present papers and posters, participate in science communication and career/education workshops. Dan Rather is speaking at this year’s event. In the past, keynoters have included Elon Musk and Al Gore.   ... View more

Stay tuned for more info from the Esri team on new workflows to produce local, higher-resolution 3D meshes and ultimately EMUs from NOAA data or your own data. Watch this space and the Esri Ocean GIS Forum recaps for more! We also have a growing list of exciting use cases of the EMUs for a range of scientific and resource management applications (NOAA Animal Telemetry Network, the Chesapeake Bay Program, the Orange County Sanitation District, the University of South Florida and Woods Hole as part of GEO’s Marine Biodiversity Observation Network, SCCWRP, and more). ... View more

http://www.esri.com/events/ocean The Esri Ocean GIS Forum brings together thought leaders from the ocean GIS community in an interactive environment that fosters exploration, collaboration, learning, and innovation. This year's forum will focus on new, innovative GIS tools and forward-thinking solutions built to provide a deeper understanding of our oceans. When you join your colleagues and Esri subject matter experts at the Esri campus in Redlands, California, on October 31, you will have a front-row seat to shaping the future of ocean and maritime GIS design. Share your ideas and successes with industry colleagues and help shape the future of GIS design through one-on-one collaboration. Learn how GIS serves as a powerful tool for scientific understanding, by improving analyses, insights, efficiencies, communication, and maritime workflows in government and commercial communities. Discover the ways in which multi-dimensional data and web apps can help you put cutting-edge scientific information to work in your organization at Technical Workshops. Learn how to extract more value from your marine and coastal data when it is filtered, analyzed, and viewed on a smart map - producing better informed decisions. Explore and test-drive ArcGIS 10.5 with free, expert-led training at the Hands-On Learning Lab. Attend dynamic presentations from Esri staff, partners, and customers at the Plenary Session, Lightning Talks, and User Presentations. Return to your campus, organization, or institution with a deeper understanding of how GIS technology serves as a powerful tool in the areas of ocean science research and analysis, ocean use planning, marine resilience management, conservation and restoration, and much more! You can't afford to miss this unique opportunity to learn proven best practices firsthand from ocean and maritime industry thought leaders, grow your professional network, expand your GIS skill set, and implement new approaches to success in 2017 and beyond! Don't wait to sign-up. The early-bird registration deadline is August 31, 2017. ... View more

Thanks to the many hundreds who attended this afternoon's UC Science Symposium. There we so many people that we were not able to get to during the Q&A session, after Jon Foley's thought-provoking keynote and reaction panel. Perhaps we can continue the discussion here? Feel free to post your questions and reactions and let's keep the momentum going! Photos and a recap of the Science Symposium still forthcoming. A few takeaways from Jon Foley's talk: Want to actually make the world better with science communication? Talk about hope more than fear, solutions more than problems, stories more than data. Big data not enough! Need big Wisdom that is ACTIONABLE! ... View more

Esri Science pre-UC news items: (1) You can download a separate copy of the Esri UC Q&A item: “How is Esri advancing geographic science?” on Box at https://esri.box.com/s/prrilbsuijxpi6ek1yp7stdn8y33g4ug . (2) We have over 700 RSVPed for the Esri Science Symposium on Tuesday of UC. Even if you didn’t get a chance to RSVP, you can still come at any time, especially for the beer and networking at the end. There should be enough seating in SDCC Ballroom 20A. The networking reception at 5:00-6:00, will be at the SDCC Center Terrace, outside and to the LEFT of Ballroom 20, overlooking San Diego Bay. (3) Thanks to @[Steve Kopp] for the item below: Regarding ArcGIS on the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE; i.e., supercomputers): the licensing for this is figured out now and plans are moving forward with allowing research and education use of ArcGIS on the NSF XSEDE supercomputer system. Final details are getting worked through and there will be a formal press release in a month or so. If you are someone from research or academia who wants to run something really big (geoanalytics, raster analytics, geoevent), there is now a place you can do this FOR FREE, and you can run as many ArcGIS processes as you want, again, FOR FREE. If interested and want to know more, contact Eric Shook [email protected] at Univ of Minnesota [email protected].  He is the GIS domain lead for XSEDE and the primary person we are coordinating through. He can help them understand XSEDE qualification requirements and how to apply for an allocation. Esri and XSEDE will collaborate to set up ArcGIS Enterprise with big data extensions with a Jupyter sandbox later this summer where XSEDE users can easily play and get started. For those who want to run specific or larger projects they will also be able to configure and manage their own cluster. Background: XSEDE is the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, the NSF funded collection of research supercomputer centers in the US. Their hardware includes supercomputers running special OS and middleware, as well as large windows clusters for cloud configuration, including JetStream, which has over 15,000 cores and 80Tb of RAM. Good luck at UC! ... View more

Our Esri Applications Prototype Lab has been experimenting with use of EMU data in their 3D Fences/Curtain tool. See some neat results on YouTube.  For more information on 3D Fences and to download the free tool, see http://esriurl.com/3dfence. And note that a new version of this tool that works with both Arcmap and ArcGIS Pro is now available. ... View more