<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="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" style="margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="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/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><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"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="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>Putting</span> <span>Data</span> <span>to</span> <span>Work</span>: Building Public-Private Partnerships <span>to</span> Increase Resilience & Enhance the Socioeconomic Value of <span>Data</span></font></span></p><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font><div><b><u>Rapid Scaling of Sensitive Information Sharing in Support of National Water Prediction & Hurricane Research (Thursday 11/12 at 12 pm ET/9 am PT)<br></u></b>Dave Jones, CEO of StormCenter Communications, will present on new efforts they are working on with NOAA for operational implementation of GeoCollaborate, which is StormCenter’s SBIR Phase III, innovative cross-platform real-time data sharing and collaboration environment. The NWS’ National Water Center (NWC) in Tuscaloosa, AL and NOAA’s Hurricane Research Division (HRD) are putting GeoCollaborate to work to improve data and information sharing across agencies, states and scientists to create a unified approach to situational awareness and decision making. This is critical, as so far in 2020 (as of 10/7), there have been 16 weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each to affect the United States. These events included 1 drought event, 11 severe storm events, 3 tropical cyclone events, and 1 wildfire event. Overall, these events resulted in the deaths of 188 people and had significant economic effects on the areas impacted. The 1980–2019 annual average is 6.6 events (CPI-adjusted); the annual average for the most recent 5 years (2015–2019) is 13.8 events (CPI-adjusted). Globally we are experiencing more floods and flash floods remain one of the top killers. As climate changes and CO2 continues to rise, the oceans heat up, hurricanes seem to be intensifying more rapidly, especially near the coastline prior to landfall.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Learn more about the speaker:</b> <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mBWoTBEK3txCYx5LY5H8ne92ifMrgUJW/view?usp=sharing">Here</a></div><div><br></div><div><table cellpadding="0" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;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"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Join (11/12 at 12 pm ET/9 am PT):</b> See connection details <a href="https://www.esipfed.org/get-involved/telecon-calendar" target="_blank">here</a>.</font></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><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Learn more about ESIP's 2020 <span class="gmail-il" style="">webinar</span> series and access past <span class="gmail-il" style="">webinars</span> <a href="https://www.esipfed.org/webinars" target="_bl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