<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hi ACC:</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bill and I have drafted a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l7uv1d6Gozvl3cNvLIy5gLuQMA-shMqjvlscOoSdB5M/edit?usp=sharing">session proposal for the ESIP 2021 winter meeting</a>.  The most important parts of the proposal are pasted below.  If you have suggestions / edits / questions, please contribute <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l7uv1d6Gozvl3cNvLIy5gLuQMA-shMqjvlscOoSdB5M/edit?usp=sharing">directly to the session proposal Google Doc</a> in "suggesting" mode.  Please let us know your comments by this Friday (2020-10-30) noon eastern time.  Thanks.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Brian</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-674acb65-7fff-c778-1592-e62e53a7587d"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 21pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Session Title</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(217,48,37);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(112,117,122);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Carbon Management, Food, Agriculture, Human well-being:  Using informatics to connect the climate action dots.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 21pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Session Description</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(217,48,37);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(112,117,122);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">***Overview***  The Biden plan for a “Clean Energy revolution and environmental justice” includes the objective “decarbonizing the food and agriculture sector, and leveraging agriculture to remove carbon dioxide from the air and store it in the ground”.  This session will focus on science, technology, applications, technology, and policy topics relevant to both that objective and selected UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(112,117,122);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">***Details***  The Agriculture and Climate Cluster (ACC) has recently been focused on science and technology topics that wrap around the transdisciplinary pipeline connecting data to decisions.  The Cluster recently organized a do-a-thon to semantically tag selected SDG targets, and are planning further joint activities with the Research Data Alliance’s SDG Interest Group (the RDA SDG IG).  The SDGs are a useful conceptual vehicle to place in context activities borne out of a national climate action plan.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(112,117,122);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In this session, three speakers will present a blend of science, applications, technology, and policy topics relevant to the Biden plan objectives and the SDGs.  The ACC will then present a network-graph representation of how concepts from those three presentations inter-relate.  The network-graph will be used as a basis to discuss proposed 2021 activities co-helmed by the ACC and the RDA SDG IG.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 21pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 21pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Do you have any suggestions of potential plenary speakers in line with the meeting theme of Leading Innovation in Earth Science Data Frontiers?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">David Babson (</span><a href="https://ssfonline.org/webinar-towards-a-20-gt-negative-co2-emissions-industry-10493" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://ssfonline.org/webinar-towards-a-20-gt-negative-co2-emissions-industry-10493</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(112,117,122);background-color:rgb(252,229,205);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>