<div dir="ltr"><table cellpadding="0" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium;border-spacing:0px;padding:0px;border-collapse:collapse;width:963px;display:block;color:rgb(32,33,36)"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:0px;width:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:151px;height:90px"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/pi39m280pPRVeccpQogn_FE8o7l7KgbuYQOewtZL7vH8qKrIwISOgvRdU7vI9GGdSlXRzQgkHpTks2AkEaT3RNhespOoJFvE8UCScvxLL7qqs1pndajNg7PnmZ56aVV6DIODdWU" width="151" height="90" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(69,69,69);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Earth Science Information Partners (</span><a href="http://esipfed.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ESIP</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(69,69,69);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) present the 2020 webinar series:</span></font></p><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-il">Putting</span> <span class="gmail-il">Data</span> <span class="gmail-il">to</span> <span class="gmail-il">Work</span>: Building Public-Private Partnerships <span class="gmail-il">to</span> Increase Resilience & Enhance the Socioeconomic Value of <span class="gmail-il">Data</span></font></span></p><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><br></font><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><br></font><b><u>Quantifying and Communicating Climate Change Risk at First Street (*TODAY* Thurs. October 8th at 3 pm ET)<br></u></b>The First Street Foundation is quantifying and communicating the flood and inundation risks posed by a changing environment.  First Street has created a nation-wide assessment of flood risk <span class="gmail-il">for</span> the contiguous United States (CONUS) and the District of Columbia, and is now sharing that assessment <span class="gmail-il">for</span> free with the public through <a href="http://floodfactor.com/" target="_blank">Flood Factor(TM</a>). Risk scores <span class="gmail-il">for</span> each of the approximately 142 million properties in CONUS were built upon open <span class="gmail-il">data</span> from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Flood risk from rivers, precipitation, sea level rise, and coastal storms have been combined into a single risk assessment methodology <span class="gmail-il">to</span> raise individuals' awareness of their risks, and empower them <span class="gmail-il">to</span> take steps <span class="gmail-il">to</span> reduce their current and future flood risk exposure.<br><b><br>Dr. Ed Kearns </b>is the Chief <span class="gmail-il">Data</span> Officer of First Street Foundation, and as such, provides leadership <span class="gmail-il">for</span> the organization’s science and <span class="gmail-il">data</span> activities. Dr. Kearns previously served as Chief <span class="gmail-il">Data</span> Officer <span class="gmail-il">for</span> the U.S. Department of Commerce, overseeing the governance and management of <span class="gmail-il">data</span> assets from its 12 bureaus. Appointed as NOAA’s first Chief <span class="gmail-il">Data</span> Officer in 2017, he has led the development of strategies and practices <span class="gmail-il">for</span> managing NOAA’s <span class="gmail-il">data</span> as a national asset. Kearns promotes new uses and wider understanding of federal <span class="gmail-il">data</span> through new public-private partnerships and technologies, such as the NOAA Big <span class="gmail-il">Data</span> Project. As a workgroup leader <span class="gmail-il">for</span> the White House’s Leveraging <span class="gmail-il">Data</span> as a Strategic Asset initiative, he helped develop the new Federal <span class="gmail-il">Data</span> Strategy. Previously, Dr. Kearns led climate <span class="gmail-il">data</span> and archive activities <span class="gmail-il">for</span> NOAA; guided Everglades restoration projects <span class="gmail-il">for</span> the National Park Service; calibrated NASA satellite-based ocean <span class="gmail-il">data</span> products; and developed ocean <span class="gmail-il">data</span> systems as a professor at the University of Miami. Dr. Kearns holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Marine Science from the University of Miami, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Physical Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island.<br><br><b>Host: </b>This webinar is being hosted by the <a href="https://wiki.esipfed.org/Interoperability_and_Technology/Tech_Dive_Webinar_Series" target="_blank">ESIP Information Technology & Interoperability Committee (IT&I)</a> during their monthly Tech Dive.<br><b>Join:</b> See connection details <a href="https://www.esipfed.org/get-involved/telecon-calendar" target="_blank">here</a>.</td><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:0px;width:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Learn more about ESIP's 2020 webinar series and access past webinars <a href="https://www.esipfed.org/webinars" target="_blank">here</a>.</font><br></div>