Federal GIS 2021: Special Interest Group Meetings Discuss Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change

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A Framework for Sustaining Our World: The Role of National, Local, and Global Stakeholders in Achieving the SDGs

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The Federal GIS Conference 2021 special interest group meeting, A Framework for Sustaining Our World: The Role of National, Local, and Global Stakeholders in Achieving the SDGs, explored how agencies work together towards the sustainable development goals.

Ross Comstock of W.K. Kellogg Foundation (pictured left) explained more about the Sustainable Development Goals framework that connects governance, people, and technology across global, national, and regional stakeholders. Comstock shared how communities can get involved and why this initiative was a part of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's mission.

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Celeste Connors of Hawai'i Green Growth (pictured right) represented a participating community involved with the technology arm of the framework. Connors shared the story of Hawai'i's experience to create the Aloha+ Challenge Hub and identified needs for communities to get involved with the framework: high-level political commitments and leadership at the highest levels of government, public-private partnerships, stakeholders that can carry on the work and impact, and the ability to measure progress through a dashboard for accountability.

 

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See the full discussion for more, including how the United Nation's statistics division is working with the collaborative data and why it's important to have all cities, communities, citizens involved and able to access information. This discussion is available until March 24, 2021, on the Federal GIS Conference event platform.

Pictured left: Greg Scott, United Nations Statistics

 

Related: In the Plenary for the virtual 2020 User Conference, Jack introduced viewers to the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the website SDGstoday.org, where you can find real-time sustainable development goal data.

A New Era of Climate Understanding

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Dawn Wright, Chief Scientist at Esri (pictured left), introduced and moderated a panel of guests including Lawrence Friedl of NASA Earth Sciences Division, Dr. Thomas Wall of Argonne National Laboratory, Juli Trtanj of NOAA Climate Program Office, and Jim Ellenwood of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service. The current administration's interests in addressing climate change presents an opportunity to evaluate the state of the climate from national agencies' perspective and practices. These agencies shared about their work and activities.

 

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Lawrence Friedl explained how and why NASA observes climate change through satellites, sensors, and modeling and how they are examining the connections between earth science and space.

Dr. Thomas Wall (pictured right) from the Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory, who leads climate risk and resilience studies, explained how the agency focuses on creating better data sets and how they apply enriched data for decision-making. Dr. Wall showed an example of how these focuses were key for a partnership with AT&T to modeling coastal and inland flood risks.

 

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Juli Trtanj (pictured left) is the lead for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 's One Health and Integrated Climate Research program. This program looks at the environmental impact for animals, humans, and the environment in the areas of extreme conditions, the arctic, air quality, vector-borne disease, benefits from the sea, water-borne disease, and marine mammal disease. For this discussion, Trtanj focuses on extreme heat and the partnerships around managing heat risk management. With pilot programs and mapping tools, they work with decision-makers and stakeholders to provide predictions and models for risk areas. 

Jim Ellenwood of US Forest Service is the lead for monitoring, remote sensing, and geospatial analysis research. Ellenwood focused on how US Forest Service monitors and analyzes carbon across the nation. Some examples featured were the assessment projections for the Renewable Resources Planning Act and spatial products that monitor change using ArcGIS StoryMaps and Esri's Enterprise Advantage Program. After the panelists shared their work, they answered questions from an audience of more than 500 viewers.

See the full discussion available until March 24, 2021, in the Federal GIS Conference event platform.

Check out the other Special Interest Group Meetings, available until March 24, 2021, with your 2021 Federal GIS Conference registration.

  • Advancing the Biden Administration's Racial Equity Priorities
  • COVID-19: Driving Digital Transformation Across Government
  • GIS Support to Joint All Domain Operations
  • Threat Management – How GIS Supports Security Planning Around Critical Events

 

More from 2021 FedGIS Conference:

Plenary Recap: Day 1 – Jack Welcomes Federal GIS Conference Attendees

Plenary Recap: Day 2 – FedGIS Conference Update, Inspiring User Stories, and Product Demos