[Esip-agclimate] FW: [ESIP-all] Postponed: October's Rant And Rave Webinar now on 13 Oct (Tuesday) at 11am MT

[Brian Wee]

Hi ESIP folks at the nexus of food, energy (and water) and climate:

Just to call your attention to the Rant & Rave tomorrow on the AGU TEX.  Raj is going to talk about the Pamiri Mountain project<http://climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/1301102/planId/1316301>, which is described as “Traditional knowledge, participatory science, and modern data analytics to create climate-smart, farm-scale agricultural body calendars”.  With Esri support, I’m heading up an exploratory Tribal Lands Collaboratory<https://sites.google.com/site/tribalcollaboratory/> (TLC) project (website is slightly outdated, but the general idea is there) with Northwest Indian College and the Tulalip Tribes in the greater Seattle area.  The TLC (and perhaps the TEX: but definitely the TLC) has conceptual underpinnings in NASA GSFC’s Chris Lynnes’ (whom many of you may know) “Earth Science Collaboratory” that Chris had advocated for at ESIP meetings years ago.

On food, energy, and water (FEW): as I’d noted in the last joint called between the ag+climate and energy+climate clusters, (1) NSF has a new FY16 $75M program (that cuts across NSF directorates, including computer science, geoscience, and biological sciences) called Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) that is, well, dependent on how FY16 appropriations go, (2) the 2016 annual meeting of the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) here in DC is themed “The Food-Energy-Water Nexus”.

- Brian

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Subject: [ESIP-all] Postponed: October's Rant And Rave Webinar now on 13 Oct (Tuesday) at 11am MT

Hi all,

We have had to reschedule this months ESIP IT&I Rant and Rave Webinar. It is now scheduled for next Tuesday (13 Oct) at 11am MT / 1pm ET.

Raj Pandya, Director of AGU's Thriving Earth Exchange, will introduce us to the Thriving Earth Exchange and the Sharing Solutions project which is being conducted in collaboration with Amazon Web Services. Some details on his talk:

The Thriving Earth Exchange is a network and platform that connects community leaders, sponsors, and scientists and helps them combine science and local knowledge to solve on-the-ground challenges related to natural hazards, natural resources, and climate change. I’ll talk about the general principles on which we are building TEX and describe the basic modules that are part of the TEX. Drawing on the lessons learned from our pilots, I'll talk about how we are developing modules and launching new projects with several partners. I’ll describe a range of projects – from a community monitoring effort in Denver to a Pamiri Mountain project to integrate climate projections into traditional calendars. I’ll introduce our nascent “share” module, and describe our partnership with Amazon Web Services to move prototype community-based solutions to the cloud to enhance their adaptability. And, just to live up to the name, I’ll frame it all around a small rant about the loading-dock model of science and a rave about more participatory approaches.

Hope you can join us. Call-in information is below.

Cheers,

Ethan


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