[ESIP-all] FYI: Unleashing Climate Data to Empower America¹s Agricultural Sector

Tilmes, Curt (GSFC-6190) via ESIP-all esip-all at lists.esipfed.org
Tue Jul 29 09:05:03 EDT 2014


The White House is launching the next phase of the Climate Data Initiative today!

Here is a fact sheet describing what they are announcing today, which includes Federal government and many private sector partners’ efforts to address food resilience and the contributions of agriculture to climate change through data and innovation:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/29/fact-sheet-empowering-america-s-agricultural-sector-and-strengthening-fo

And here’s a blog from White House Science Advisor John Holdren and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on the launch:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/07/29/unleashing-climate-data-empower-america-s-agricultural-sector

In particular, there are several Climate Data computing challenges (Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and others) that may be of particular interest to the ESIP community.

Curt

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