<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";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"><font color="#000000"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/pi39m280pPRVeccpQogn_FE8o7l7KgbuYQOewtZL7vH8qKrIwISOgvRdU7vI9GGdSlXRzQgkHpTks2AkEaT3RNhespOoJFvE8UCScvxLL7qqs1pndajNg7PnmZ56aVV6DIODdWU" width="151" height="90" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></font></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" color="#000000"><span style="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="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="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) present the 2021 <span class="gmail-il">webinar</span> series sponsored by <a href="http://saic.com/" target="_blank">SAIC</a>:</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><b><font size="4">Leading <span class="gmail-il">Innovation</span> in Earth Science Data Frontiers
</font> </b></span></font></p><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1em;font-weight:500;font-family:Oswald,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700"><font color="#000000" size="4"><u style="">Data System & Software Development Challenges in a NASA Research Program Turned Private Enterprise: Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc. (Wednesday 6/23 at 1 pm ET/10 am PT)</u></font></span></h2><div><font color="#000000">Airborne Snow Observatories Inc. (ASO), a start up born out of a NASA JPL research program, aims to provide inventories of mountain snow water resources worldwide with unprecedented precision. Evan Burgess, Lead Data Scientist at ASO, will discuss the data system and software development challenges in transitioning research-focused code and data into an operational system in the AWS cloud. Rapid data turnaround, the fast pace of innovation at ASO and complexities inherent in airborne remote sensing data have forced ASO to rethink its approach to processing and data distribution.</font></div><div><b style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></b></div><div><b style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">More about the speaker</font></b></div><div><span style="font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Evan Burgess is a software developer and data scientist with an academic background in glaciology. Evan has worked with radar and lidar data, UAVs, atmospheric and land surface models, in-situ data, and more. Through this work, Evan has developed innovative software, visualization tools, and cloud computing solutions that can accelerate data-driven discovery. Evan’s PhD used synthetic aperture radar to discover widespread interactions between wintertime glacier flow speeds and climate. His postdoc distilled decades-worth of airborne lidar data to understand glacier mass loss in Alaska in ways that were not possible previously. As ASO’s Lead Data Scientist, Evan works to advance ASO’s processing pipelines, data analytics, and decision support systems. Evan holds a BA from University of Colorado, and a MS/PhD from University of Utah.</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif"><b>Find connection info on the <a href="https://www.esipfed.org/telecons">ESIP Telecon Calendar</a>.</b></font></div><div><span style="font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#000000"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>Learn more about ESIP </b><b><span class="gmail-il">webinars</span> & access recordings</b><span style="font-weight:normal">: </span><a href="https://www.esipfed.org/webinars" target="_blank" style="font-weight:normal">Here</a><span style="font-weight:normal">.</span></b><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Questions?</b> Send to <a href="mailto:staff@esipfed.org" target="_blank">staff@esipfed.org</a></font></div></div>