<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"><span class="gmail-il">ESIP</span></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 Innovation 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-family:Oswald,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif;text-align:center"><u>An Earth and Space Knowledge Commons (*TODAY* Wed. Sept. 29th at 1 pm ET/10 am PT)</u></h2><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"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;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;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">Our technological and physical expansion into space exemplifies the growing interconnections between Earth and the space environment. The inseparability of the space environment from Earth and life on it reveals cracks and inadequacies in our data and knowledge infrastructure to integrate the different domains. The key to a flourishing community of Earth and space research is in improved knowledge systems (ways of representing our information). We will highlight a few efforts toward improved knowledge representation systems, emphasizing the importance of <i style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">thinking in graphs/networks</i>, and spark a discussion toward a framework to address the asymmetries: a <i style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">knowledge commons </i>[<a href="https://knowledgestructure.pubpub.org/pub/space-knowledge-commons" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">McGranaghan et al., 2021</a>].</font></p></h2><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif"><b>Speaker: </b></font>Ryan McGranaghan, Principal Data Scientist & Aerospace Engineering Scientist, ASTRA Associates</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif"><b>Learn more and register: <a href="https://www.esipfed.org/news/next-innovation-webinar-earth-space-knowledge-commons" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</b></font></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><b>References</b></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">McGranaghan, R., Klein, S. J., Cameron, A., Young, E., Schonfeld, S., Higginson, A., … Thompson, B. (2021). The need for a Space Data Knowledge Commons. </span><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif;background:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Structuring Collective Knowledge</i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">. Retrieved from</span><a href="https://knowledgestructure.pubpub.org/pub/space-knowledge-commons" target="_blank" style="font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif;background:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none"> https://knowledgestructure.pubpub.org/pub/space-knowledge-commons</a><span style="font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></b></div><div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Questions?</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Send to </span><a href="mailto:staff@esipfed.org" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">staff@esipfed.org</a><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"><br></div></div></div>